Jenny Crane
@jennycrane.bsky.social
Lecturer in health geographies at Bristol, treasurer of RGS Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Group; interested in activisms and feelings entangled in welfare states, "gifted" children, childbirth and trauma, participatory art.
Today, 3PM!
New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
October 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Today, 3PM!
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On Weds 22 Oct, there's an exciting interdisciplinary conversation about 'Planetary Health' at UCL.
I'll be talking (I think) about its antecedents and older traditions like social medicine.
All welcome, through will be primarily aimed at postgrads and ECRs. Sign up a must:
tinyurl.com/5e7s6yby
I'll be talking (I think) about its antecedents and older traditions like social medicine.
All welcome, through will be primarily aimed at postgrads and ECRs. Sign up a must:
tinyurl.com/5e7s6yby
Planetary Health
Interdisciplinary presentations and discussions focusing on the effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation.
tinyurl.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
On Weds 22 Oct, there's an exciting interdisciplinary conversation about 'Planetary Health' at UCL.
I'll be talking (I think) about its antecedents and older traditions like social medicine.
All welcome, through will be primarily aimed at postgrads and ECRs. Sign up a must:
tinyurl.com/5e7s6yby
I'll be talking (I think) about its antecedents and older traditions like social medicine.
All welcome, through will be primarily aimed at postgrads and ECRs. Sign up a must:
tinyurl.com/5e7s6yby
New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
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Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃
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📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
What a pleasure to be hosting the biannual @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference this year in Bristol! ✨ Wonderful papers on our first cluster "blue bodies" 🌊🌊 thank you for the funding, @rgsibg.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
What a pleasure to be hosting the biannual @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference this year in Bristol! ✨ Wonderful papers on our first cluster "blue bodies" 🌊🌊 thank you for the funding, @rgsibg.bsky.social
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Lovely to chat all things public engagement and impact this afternoon ☺️ Looking forward to a fab set of talks tomorrow 🙌 @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Lovely to chat all things public engagement and impact this afternoon ☺️ Looking forward to a fab set of talks tomorrow 🙌 @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
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The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
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Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Coming soon💨
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
How has energy shaped a nation?
Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡
Pre-order now!
Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖
Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!
September 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Lovely to connect with @uobrishistory.bsky.social, and to hear more about Victoria and Sarah's powerful books - on hospital colours and chronologies as overlapping and layered, and on mothers radicalised by and of the women's liberation movement. I've read both these books and really loved them 💖
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Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
September 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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🏳️🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️🌈
For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre
For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre
September 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🏳️🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️🌈
For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre
For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre
Please consider reaching out to one of my wonderful PGR students, Buse, if you have ever been labelled 'gifted', and are happy to discuss. . .
🌟 Gifted? Talented? Share your story! 🌟
I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol running online interviews with adults (18+) in England & Wales about growing up with this label.
🔗 linktr.ee/busedemirkan or 📩 [email protected]
#GiftedEducation #PhDResearch #ShareYourStory #Giftedness
I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol running online interviews with adults (18+) in England & Wales about growing up with this label.
🔗 linktr.ee/busedemirkan or 📩 [email protected]
#GiftedEducation #PhDResearch #ShareYourStory #Giftedness
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Please consider reaching out to one of my wonderful PGR students, Buse, if you have ever been labelled 'gifted', and are happy to discuss. . .
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Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.
September 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.
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We're reading @jennycrane.bsky.social's fantastic article on the history of public consultation and health policy in our policy team's analysis/reading group at the Health Foundation this week! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why the history of public consultation matters for contemporary health policy
Contemporary policy debates construct public involvement in England’s National Health Service as “new,” or as a practice dating back only as far as th…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We're reading @jennycrane.bsky.social's fantastic article on the history of public consultation and health policy in our policy team's analysis/reading group at the Health Foundation this week! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September, ahh!
Forgot to share this promotional code for my new(ish) book before - AUFLY30 on OUP's website.
Useful book for reading lists on:
- fluxes in 'elitism' & 'equality'
- childhood writing methodologies
- 'agency' as concept
- voluntary action and 'education' beyond schools
Forgot to share this promotional code for my new(ish) book before - AUFLY30 on OUP's website.
Useful book for reading lists on:
- fluxes in 'elitism' & 'equality'
- childhood writing methodologies
- 'agency' as concept
- voluntary action and 'education' beyond schools
September 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
September, ahh!
Forgot to share this promotional code for my new(ish) book before - AUFLY30 on OUP's website.
Useful book for reading lists on:
- fluxes in 'elitism' & 'equality'
- childhood writing methodologies
- 'agency' as concept
- voluntary action and 'education' beyond schools
Forgot to share this promotional code for my new(ish) book before - AUFLY30 on OUP's website.
Useful book for reading lists on:
- fluxes in 'elitism' & 'equality'
- childhood writing methodologies
- 'agency' as concept
- voluntary action and 'education' beyond schools
ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
ENRGHI 2025 is open for registration, and last chance to submit an abstract is 1 September.
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
7-8 October, University of Bristol: join a 30 year tradition of connecting PGR and ECR research across geographies of health and wellbeing.
@healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social
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This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!
August 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!
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Deadline extended: Sponsored sessions @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference
We're particularly interested in sponsoring sessions that engage with the conference theme & address creativity from the perspective of health, wellbeing & medical geographies
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#GHWRG
We're particularly interested in sponsoring sessions that engage with the conference theme & address creativity from the perspective of health, wellbeing & medical geographies
👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/ghwrg-sponso...
#GHWRG
Call for sponsored sessions: RGS-IBG Annual Conference
***DEADLINE EXTENDED*** The Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group of the RGS-IBG invites expressions of interest for sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG 2025 Annual Conference. The confe…
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February 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Deadline extended: Sponsored sessions @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference
We're particularly interested in sponsoring sessions that engage with the conference theme & address creativity from the perspective of health, wellbeing & medical geographies
👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/ghwrg-sponso...
#GHWRG
We're particularly interested in sponsoring sessions that engage with the conference theme & address creativity from the perspective of health, wellbeing & medical geographies
👉 ghwrg.wordpress.com/ghwrg-sponso...
#GHWRG
Have you attended the @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social ENRGHI conference, over its 31 year history? If so can you please get in touch to share any interesting messages or memories for attendees this year at University of Bristol? We have a first half-day of workshops and are making posters 🎨
August 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Have you attended the @healthgeographyrgs.bsky.social ENRGHI conference, over its 31 year history? If so can you please get in touch to share any interesting messages or memories for attendees this year at University of Bristol? We have a first half-day of workshops and are making posters 🎨
Almost but not quite too late to apply to present at the annual PGR/ECR conference of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing group. It's at Bristol this year, 7-8th October. Special strand on 'blue bodies' but any research linked to health geographies is so welcome 🌿
ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water - blue bodies
Gain constructive feedback and engage with a community of researchers who share an interest in the geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.
www.rgs.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Almost but not quite too late to apply to present at the annual PGR/ECR conference of the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing group. It's at Bristol this year, 7-8th October. Special strand on 'blue bodies' but any research linked to health geographies is so welcome 🌿
This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!
August 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!
@millieqed.bsky.social have you read 'the production of presence: the internet and first-person illness narratives' by Nehal El-Hadi. wonderful and very relevant to your interests - eprints.gla.ac.uk/173458/7/173...
eprints.gla.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
@millieqed.bsky.social have you read 'the production of presence: the internet and first-person illness narratives' by Nehal El-Hadi. wonderful and very relevant to your interests - eprints.gla.ac.uk/173458/7/173...
Fascinating conversation between Cat Papastavrou Brooks (one of my amazing PGR students!) and Dr Chloe Asker - love Chloe's vision for this podcast to interview ECR health geographers about 4 objects shaping their journeys.
open.spotify.com/episode/6e8G...
open.spotify.com/episode/6e8G...
Cat Papastavrou Brooks - "it's only recently that I recognise myself as a health geographer"
Emerging Research Journeys · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fascinating conversation between Cat Papastavrou Brooks (one of my amazing PGR students!) and Dr Chloe Asker - love Chloe's vision for this podcast to interview ECR health geographers about 4 objects shaping their journeys.
open.spotify.com/episode/6e8G...
open.spotify.com/episode/6e8G...
upcoming deadline (15th August) to apply to speak at this friendly conference for PGRs and ECRs interested in 'health geography', broadly defined. 7-8th October, University of Bristol.
ENRGHI 2025: Embodiment and water - blue bodies
Gain constructive feedback and engage with a community of researchers who share an interest in the geographies of health, wellbeing, and impairment.
www.rgs.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
upcoming deadline (15th August) to apply to speak at this friendly conference for PGRs and ECRs interested in 'health geography', broadly defined. 7-8th October, University of Bristol.