Mara Dougall

Writer, PhD Researcher and Tutor working in creative writing and history of medicine @UniStrathclyde

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

Delighted to have passed my PhD viva with no corrections this morning!🎉 Forever indebted to the amazing @tortietabby and @liammurraybell - officially the best supervisors ever❤️Huge thanks to my fantastic examiners @rodgeglass and Heather Richardson, and convener @sophalexjones

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

This interdisciplinary conference in Feb may be of interest to some @Talking_Bodies 😊 Lots of fascinating thematic strands and details on how to submit below 🔎

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

The tireless @StrathclydeCW peer support programme in action! I call this one the three stages of a PhD @0scottmcnee @MirriGD

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@liammurraybell @StirUni @KathleenJamie @Kevin_MacNeil @louisewelsh00 This is excellent news! Congratulations Liam! 😊

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@surgeonshall @the_polyphony Glad you approve 😊 Was such a fascinating experience. Thanks again to Keshena, and of course Ken!

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

Very pleased my piece for @the_polyphony is now live. With thanks to @surgeonshall ✂️💔

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@_Laura_Donald @the_polyphony Thanks Laura! Was very interesting indeed.

[Jerome de Groot @deggy21]

Excited about the Historical Fictions Research Network conference beginning tonight! All welcome! https://t.co/df4U185wum
#hfrn2021

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

The venue isn't quite as swanky as last year (and the food's bound to be disappointing) but still super pleased to be participating in @HistoricalFic conference this week! #hfrn2021 #armchairacademic

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@kristinwh0 @hospital_senses Oh, absolutely! This looks fascinating - thanks x

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@phpi_glasgow @_SSpence @RCPSGheritage This sounds amazing! Can't wait ☺️

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

Really looking forward to participating in this reading event tomorrow night, as part of the fantastic Public Health Private Illness conference. My piece explores women's health and the medical gaze 🔬 #creativewriting

[PHPIGlasgow @phpi_glasgow]

Really exciting online reading event in the evening of Thurs 3rd Sep as part of #phpi2020 Free to attend, #medhums focus, register at https://t.co/rk9MIvAIRb

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

Such a pleasure so be part of this project☺️ I love this photo of Donald John on evacuation day. It's a fine day today 90 years later. Hope you all have a good one 💚 Full story (in Gaelic and English) on site link below:

[Fàgail Hiort - Leaving St. Kilda @FagailHiort]

Short story /
A Fine Day for Loading by @DougallMara

The evacuation of St. Kilda was 90 years ago today. The photograph below of Donald John MacKinnon inspired this story (which is wholly fiction)

https://t.co/yKLtYZBjmn

#Hiort #StKilda #shortstory #Scotland #historicalfiction

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@CSHHH_Glasgow @StrathHistory @HYSHU2015 Fantastic news! Congratulations @HYSHU2015 👏🎉

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@CSHHH_Glasgow @tortietabby @sniphist @kristinwh0 Such a great session! Thanks all ☺️

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@catriona_ellis @CSHHH_Glasgow Children in the isolation hospital weren't so fortunate. But, yes, children were allowed. I'm aware that in its earliest days there were babies that were born in the Combination Poorhouse, but I haven't yet been able to look into that fully. The maternity hospital opened 1955 2/2

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@catriona_ellis @CSHHH_Glasgow Thanks very much! Yes, they were. For example I spoke to someone who was an inpatient at the West Highland Hospital in 1947 (burst appendix) aged 7. He was treated alongside the adult males but was reasonably comfortable in that environment, where family were able to visit 1/2

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@ChloeAShields @CSHHH_Glasgow And so sneaks off to ashamedly eat his sandwiches in the toilet, only to have the others in his compartment produce their own ample packed lunch later! 2/2

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@ChloeAShields @CSHHH_Glasgow Sounds great. I was also wondering whether you were considering drawing on literary representations at all? (though to be fair that sounds like it could be a whole other PhD!) I have a vivid memory from Philip Larkin's novel 'Jill' where he's unsure of the proper ettiquette 1/2

[Mara Dougall @DougallMara]

@ChloeAShields @CSHHH_Glasgow Brilliant! I'm a big fan of Mass Observation, but I'm an even bigger fan of Charles Darwin's letters, which I can never read without chuckling at the sign off - Chas