Caroline Rusterholz is Assistant Professor in History and International Politics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Before joining the Institute, Dr Rusterholz was a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, Cambridge University. She was also a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck College and Cambridge. Her research focuses on the transnational history of sexual and reproductive health, population and family in the twentieth century. Her first book, Deux enfants c'est déjà pas mal, famille et fécondité en Suisse, explores why Swiss parents limited the size of their families in the 1960s. Her second monograph Women’s Medicine, Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective (1920-70) (Manchester University Press, December 2020) traces the key roles played by British women doctors in the production and circulation of contraceptive knowledge from a transnational perspective. Her third manuscript under contract with Oxford University Press is a socio-cultural history of young people’s sexuality in Britain from the 1960s to the 1990s, using the Brook Advisory Centre (Brook) as a case study.

Education:          

11.2014                 Ph.D. Historical Demography, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 

                               Thesis title: ‘Du baby boom au baby bust: les mutations de la parentalité saisies par l’histoire orale.

                               Analyse comparative de deux villes suisses (1955-1970)’ (6/6 summa cum laude)

                              Advisor: Prof. Anne-Françoise Praz

                              External expert: Prof. Virginie De Luca Barrusse

07.2014               International Summer School in Historical Demography, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

07.2011               Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection

08.2010                 Master of Arts, University of Fribourg, Switzerland,

• Major in History of modern and contemporary societies (5.7/6, insigni cum laude)
• Master Thesis (6/6, summa cum laude)
• Minor in History of Art (5.5/6, insigni cum laude)

Current position

2024-                     Professor of Social History, University of Fribourg

2023-2028           Eccellenza Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva

2023 -                    Research Associate, Faculty of History, Cambridge University

Past positions

08.18-01.23         Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Faculty of History, Cambridge University.

2018                      Lecturer in Modern History, University of Fribourg (20%)

2016-2018            Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London

2015-2017            Lecturer Unidistance (20%)            

2016                      Visiting Scholar Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

2015-2016            Visiting Scholar Cambridge University

2014                      Lecturer, Fribourg University (83%)

2013-2014           PhD visiting student, Cambridge University

2020                Sigerist Prize for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences, 2,000 CHF

2018 - 2021   Research Network, Health, Medicine and Agency, CRASSH (Cambridge University), £1,500

2019                Conference support, CRASSH and SRI (Cambridge University), £5,000

2019                Publication grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, 15,000 CHF

2016                Publication grant, Foundation Chalumeau, 2000 CHF

2016                Publication grant, Swiss National Science Foundation, 8,000 CHF

2016                Conference support, CRASSH (Cambridge University), £2,500

2022-2027     Eccellenza Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation (100%), PI, 1, 998, 955 CHF

2022-2027     ERC starting grant (100%), PI £ 1,495,005, declined

2018-2021     Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities (100%), PI, £155,453

2017-2018     Advanced-postdoc mobility Grant Swiss National Foundation (100%), PI, 75,000 CHF

2015-2017      Early-postdoc mobility Grant Swiss National Foundation (100%), PI, 73,000 CHF

2013-2014      Doc.mobility Grant Swiss National Foundation (100%), 50,000 CHF.

Monographs:

• Caroline Rusterholz, Responsible Pleasure. Youth sexuality in postwar Britain (Oxford University Press, 2024).
• Caroline Rusterholz, Women’s Medicine, Sex, Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective (1920-70). (Manchester University Press, December 2020).
• Caroline Rusterholz, “Deux enfants c’est déjà pas mal”, Famille et fécondité en Suisse, 1955-1970. (Editions Antipodes, Lausanne, 2017).

Articles:

• Caroline Rusterholz, Laura Kelly, ‘Depo Provera, race and class in 1970s Britain’, forthcoming Historical Journal.
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘“A mechanical view of sex outside the context of love and the family”, Contraception, censorship and the Brook Advisory Centre in Britain (1964-1985)’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2024.
• Jenny Bangham, Yuliya Hilevych, Caroline Rusterholz (eds), ‘Let’s talk about sex and reproduction. Counselling encounters in postwar Europe, Guest editor, Special Issue for Medical Humanities, online
• Caroline Rusterholz,‘’If we can show that we are helping adolescents to understand themselves, their feelings and their needs, then we are doing [a] valuable job’ Counselling young people on sexual health in the Brook Advisory Centre (1965-1985)’, online Medical Humanities.
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Youth Sexuality, Responsibility and the Opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham in the 1960s’, Journal of British Studies, 2021, 1-28.
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘’You can’t dismiss that as being less happy, you see it is different’. Sexual therapy in 1950s England’, Twentieth Century British History, 30, 3 (2019), 375–
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘British women doctors and contraception in transnational perspective (1930s–1970s)’, Medical History, 63, 2, (2019), 153–172
• Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, Caroline Rusterholz (eds), ‘Reproductive politics in France and Britain’, Special Issue for Medical History, 63, 2, (2019), 117–133
• Yuliya Hilevych, Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Two children to make ends meet’: the ideal family size, parental responsibilities and costs of children on two sides of the Iron Curtain during the post-war fertility decline’, The History of the Family, 23, 3, (2018), 408–
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘English and French women doctors in international debates on contraception (1920-1935)’, Social History of Medicine, 31, 2, (2018), 328–347,
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Testing the Gräfenberg Ring in Interwar Britain: Norman Haire, Helena Wright and the Debate over Statistical Evidence, Side Effects, and Intrauterine Contraception’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 72, 4, (2017), 448–467
• Caroline Henchoz, Anne-Françoise Praz, Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Saisir l’adolescence à travers la micro-économie familiale (1925-1970)’, Traverses, 2, (2017), 53–
• Virginie de Luca Barrusse, Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Les apports et les promesses de l’économie politique de la fécondité pour l’étude de ses transitions’, Annales de démographie historique, 2, (2016), 17–
• Caroline Rusterholz, Anne-Françoise Praz, ‘Une transition au féminin? Modèle familial et fécondité en Suisse, 1955-1970’ in Genre, sexualité et société, online 2016.
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Costs of children and models of parenthood: Evidence from two Swiss cities’, in Journal of family history, 40(2), 2015, 208–
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Fathers in 1960s’ Switzerland: A silent revolution?’, in Gender and History, 27(3), 2015, 828–843.
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Reproductive behaviour and contraceptive practices in comparative perspective, Switzerland (1955-1970)’, in The History of the Family, 20, 1, (2015), 41–68

• Caroline Rusterholz, Depo Provera and medical controversies in Britain 1970s-1980s’ in Nils Kessel, David Herzberg and Joseph Gabriel (eds), Risky Benefits, Beneficial Risks: Histories from The Borderland between Licit and Illicit Drugs in the U.S. and Europe, 1880s to 2000s (John Hopkins University Press, forthcoming)
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘A Private Matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and Young People’s Everyday, Sexual Health in the 1960s-1980s’ in Hannah Froom, Tracey Loughran, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy Payling (eds), "Everyday Health", Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950 (Manchester University Press, 2024).

• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Teenagers, Sex and the Brook Advisory Centres (1964-1985)’, in Sian Pooley, Jono Taylor (eds) Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain, (Institute of Historical Research, 2021)
• Caroline Rusterholz, ‘Comparative perspectives on Religion and Contraception in Switzerland (1950-70)’ in Alana Harris (ed.), The Schism of ’68: Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe (1945 – 75), (Palgrave and Macmillan, 2018), 99–
• Caroline Henchoz, Anne-Françoise Praz, Caroline Rusterholz ‘De l’adolescent assurance financière à l’adolescent consommateur : implications pour l’économie familiale suisse (1930-1970)’, in Nootens T. (dir), L’argent des familles : pratiques et régulations sociales en Occident aux XIX et XX siècles, Québec : Presse de l’Université Laval, 2019).

Book reviews: 

• Donna J. Drucker, Contraception, A Concise History (MIT) in European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health1 (2021): 222-225.
• David Geiringer, The Pope and the Pill, Sex, Catholicism and Women in Post-war England, (Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. XII + 213, in British Catholic History 35, 2 (2020), 236–8.
• Catherine Bonvalet, Ignace Olazabal et Micher Oris, (dir), Les baby-boomers, une histoire de familles, une comparaison Québec- France, Québec, Presses de l’université du Québec, 2015, in Annales de Démographie historique, 2, 2016, 247–
• Claude Martin (dir.), Être un bon parent » une injonction contemporaine, Rennes, Presses de l’EHESP, 2014, in Annales de Démographie historique, 2015.
• Anne Cova, Bruno Dumons (dir.), Femmes, Genre et Catholicisme, Nouvelles Recherches, nouveaux objets (France, XIXe-XXe siècles), Chrétiens et Sociétés 17, Lyon, 2012, Revue Suisse d'histoire religieuse et culturelle, 2013.

2024      ‘Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in postwar Britain,’ session organiser, Social History of Medicine Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

2023      ‘Intersectional Histories of Race and Reproduction in the 20th Century’, session organiser, European Social Science History Conference, Sweden.

2023      ‘Depo Provera, Reproductive justice and global mobilisations against harmful contraceptives (1970s-present)’, international workshop co-organised with Maud Bracke and Laura Kelly, University of Glasgow.                       

2019       ‘‘Let’s talk about sex’’ (and reproduction). Counselling for reproductive health in postwar Europe’, International workshop co-organised with Yuliya Hilevych, Jenny Bangham, University of Cambridge, CRASSH, SRI founding (5000 pounds).

2018       ‘Experts’ advice, activism and individual practices: navigating norms and laws around sexuality and birth control, c.1930-1980’, session joint with Laura Kelly, Social History of Medicine Association, University of Liverpool

2018       ‘Monitoring teenage sexuality in the XX^th century’, session joint with Yuliya Hilevych, European Social Science History Conference, Belfast.

2016       ‘Sexuality and the medical and paramedical bodies: a gender approach for the 19^th and 20^th century’, session joint with Prof. Virginie de Luca Barrusse at European Society of Historical Demography, Louvain.  

2016       ‘Reproductive politics in France and the UK’, International conference co-organized with Dr Jesse Olszynko Gryn, University of Cambridge, CRASSH founding (2500 pounds).  

2016       ‘Power and sexuality’, session joint with Sarah Baumann, Quatrième journée Suisse d’Histoire, Lausanne.  

2014       ‘Changes in meanings of parenthood’, session joint with Dr Trent MacNamara (University of Columbia), Social Science History Conference, Toronto.  

2014       ‘Individual’s reproductive careers in modern Europe’, session joint with Yuliya Hilevych (Radboud University), European Social Science History Conference 2014, Vienne

2012       ‘Sexualité et contrôle des naissances au XIXe et XXe siècle: approches qualitatives et quantitatives’, International workshop, University of Fribourg. Joint with Sandra Bree (University of Paris Sorbonne) and Anne-Françoise Praz (University of Fribourg).

Selected invited presentations*, seminars and conferences

* 2024   Reproductive politics in twentieth century Europe, Keynote, Summer School in Reproduction, Zurich

*2024    Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health in postwar Britain, Reproductive Justice now!, London

*2023    Reproductive justice in postwar Britain, History Forum, Graduate Institute, Geneva

* 2023   La racialisation des services de santé sexuelle en Angleterre, 1960-2000, Centre en Études Genre, Lausanne

*2023    ‘Teen, sex and the Brook Advisory Centre’, Berlin Social Science Centre.

* 2023   ‘Depo Provera, class, race and medical authorities in 1970s London and Glasgow’, Paris INED.

* 2023   ‘Teenage sexuality in Britain, the Brook Advisory Centre, 1960s-1990s’, Grenoble University.

* 2023   ‘Reaching out to vulnerable young people, sex education in Britain, 1960-1990s’, History of sexuality seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London

* 2023   ‘Women’s medicine, sex, family planning and female doctors, 1920-1970s’, University Toulouse Jean Jaures.

* 2022   ‘Youth, Gender and teenage sexual counselling in Britain, post-1945’, Strathclyde University.

* 2022   ‘It’s an excellent service for a lot of young people and a place of trust for them’. The clients and the shaping of Brook Advisory Centres in Britain’, LARCA, Paris

* 2021   Book discussion on Women’s Medicine, Health Medicine and Agency research network, Cambridge University.

* 2020   ‘Gender and sexual and reproductive health in twentieth century Britain’, Institute of Population Health Science, Queen Mary University.

* 2020   ‘Gender Activism and Sexual health services, the work of the Brook Advisory Centre in postwar Britain’, Women’s history seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London.

  2020    ‘Counselling for Sexual Health in the Brook Advisory Centre (1964-2000)’, North American Conference on British Studie, online

* 2020   ‘Youth Sexuality, Public Health Campaigns and Censorship: the Brook Advisory Centres, (1964-1985)’, Sex Science and Censorship in the 19^th and 20^th Century, Granada, Spain.

  2019    ‘Counselling and young people in the Brook Advisory Centres (1964-1980), ‘Let’s talk about sex’’ (and reproduction). Counselling for reproductive health in postwar Europe’, International workshop, University of Cambridge.

* 2019   ‘‘’Full marks to this self-help clinic for the teenage lovers’: the opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham, locality and controversy’, History and Policy seminar, University of Cambridge.

* 2018   ‘Women’s Medicine, Family Planning and British Female doctors in transnational perspective’, Gender Seminar, Graduate Institute, Geneva.

* 2018   ‘’Full marks to this self-help clinic for the teenage lovers’: the opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in London and Birmingham, locality and controversy’, Warwick.

 *2018  ‘Sexuality, contraception and mixed methods’ Workshop, Essex University.

   2018   ‘The permissive society and the Brook Advisory Centres in London and Birmingham’, North American Conference on British Studies, Providence.

 * 2018 ‘Emotions and sexual pleasure, early forms of sexual therapy’ Seminar Placing the public in public health, Centre for the history of Public Health, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.

 *2018   ‘Women doctors as expert in contraception, Britain (1920-1970)’, Sexpertise Conference, University of Exeter.

   2018   ‘The opening of the Brook Advisory Centre in London’, Reproductive and Sexual Health activism, Glasgow women’s library.

   2018   ‘‘This isn’t so boring if you get your climax!’, Women doctors and sexual pleasure in Britain (1930s-1970s)’, Social History of Medicine Association, University of Liverpool.

   2018  ‘The setting of the Brook Advisory Centre, a step towards sexual emancipation?’, European Social Science History Conference, Belfast.

* 2018   ‘English women doctors and sexual disorders (1920-1970)’, European Sexology Bruxelles.

* 2018   ‘English women doctors and sexual pleasure, (1930s-1970s)’, Workshop, Sexology Unit, Exeter University.

   2017   ‘English women doctors, birth control and family planning (1920-1970)’, Gender Research Seminar, Cambridge University.

* 2017   ‘Developing sexual counselling in interwar years England’, Social History Seminar, Leuwen University.

* 2017   ‘English women doctors and the production of scientific knowledge on contraception (1920-1970)’, Master seminar New Historia, The New School, New York.

* 2017   ‘Echanger les savoirs contraceptifs, Angleterre et France, (1920-1970)’, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 2.

   2017   ‘Leading the way, women doctors and contraception (1920-1970)’, Social History Association, London.

* 2017   ‘Enquêter sur l’intime’, STIGES, Bruxelles.

* 2017   ‘Choix reproductifs et modèles familiaux en Suisse, 1955-1970’, ESOPP, Paris Science Po seminar.

* 2017   ‘Religion and Contraception in Switzerland (1950-1970)’, History of Sexuality Seminar, Institute of Historical Research,  London.

* 2016   ‘Leading the way: English women doctors and contraception in transnational perspective (1930-1970)’, Women’s History Seminar,  Institute of Historical Research, London.

* 2016   ‘English women doctors as leading actors in birth control (1930-1970)’, Departmental lunchtime seminar, Birkbeck University, London.

   2016   ‘Transfer of contraceptive knowledge, France and England’, Reproductive politics in France and the UK, University of Cambridge.

*2016  ‘Reproduction and social norms in Switzerland (1955-1970)’, IMPRS ANARCHIE Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

   2016 ‘From birth control to family planning, a transfer of knowledge? Gendering medical bodies from a transnational perspective. France, England (1930-1975)’, American Association of History of Medicine, Minneapolis.

* 2016   ‘’Deux enfants, c’était déjà pas mal’, Famille et fécondité en Suisse’, University of Lille.

*2015 ‘The Swiss Bourgeois Family Model, a Step Towards Reproductive Emancipation (1955-1970)?’, Paper presented at Making Parents? Human Reproduction and Family Life in Contemporary Society, University of Roehampton.

*2015 ‘Du baby boom au baby bust: les mutations de la parentalité en Suisse’, Seminar petite enfance, Haute Ecole en Sciences sociales, Paris.

  2014    ‘The baby bust in Switzerland, new perspectives from oral history’, Social Sciences History Association, Toronto.

  2014    ‘The Impact of Parenthood on Reproductive Behaviour: the Second Demographic Transition in Switzerland’, European Social Science History Conference 2014, Vienna.

2023-28 George Severs, Postdoc Eccellenza, Graduate Institute, Geneva.

2023-28 Naomi Samake Baeckert, PhD, Graduate Institute, Geneva.

2020-21 Olivia Tinker, MPhil dissertation in Economic and Social History, University of Cambridge, ‘Shame and women’s bodies in early twentieth century’

2020-21Yingxin Zhang, MPhil dissertation in Gender Studies, University of Cambridge ‘Salvation or Violation? Decoding the Compulsory Medical Interventions in Chinese Intersex Memoirs’

2020-21 External Advisor for PhD Candidate: Pauline Mortas, La sexualité conjugale et le marché contraceptif, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Postgraduate Teaching

2018- 2023           University of Cambridge, Faculty of History

• Family Planning in Latin America, MPhil seminar Latin American Studies, two one-hour seminars with Mphil students. Lecturing
• ‘Generation and Reproduction’, Core module MPhil Economic and Social History, two one-hour seminars with Mphil students on demographic transition, population question, reproductive politics. Lecturing, leading discussion, marking essays.
• ‘Cultural and Social History’, Historical Argument and Practice, two one-hour seminars with MPhil students on social and cultural history. Co-leading discussion.
• Marking Mphil essays in Gender Studies and Modern British History.
• ‘Histories of contraceptive technologies, reproductive justice’, Summer School, Reproduction.

2015-2018      University of Fribourg, Faculty of History

• ‘Gender, Bodies and Sexualities’, 24 one-hour lectures and seminars for master students on theoretical approaches and case-studies of the history of sexology, sexualities and bodies. Convenor-leader: devising seminar, leading discussion, teaching material, supervising and marking original dissertations.
• ‘Methodology of oral history’, two one-hour lectures for master students.

2017                Birkbeck College, University of London

• ‘Theorising gender’, two one-hour lectures for master students (gender and sexuality) on family planning in twentieth century. Devising seminar, teaching material and leading discussion.

Undergraduate teaching

2018-22          University of Cambridge

• Supervision of a special essay on the permissive society
• Sex education in the long twentieth century in Britain, Winter School Demography

2015-17          Unidistance (Swiss Open University, Switzerland), Faculty of History

• ‘Communism and anticommunism’, blended teaching. 15 one-hour lectures and seminars for bachelor students on the history of communism anti-communism in Europe and the US. Co-devising and creating lectures, handling the online platform, creating and uploading online teaching and training material, advising and supervising students’ intermediate assessments and final dissertations, marking exams and dissertations.

2010-2015      University of Fribourg, Faculty of History

• ‘Introduction to the History of the XIXth and XXth century’, 24 one-hour seminars for bachelor students on the foundational texts and sources for the political and social history of the XIXth and XXth century. Convenor-leader: devising seminars, lecturing, supervising, assessing and marking students first long essays.
• ‘Violence and Political discourses’, 24 one-hour seminars for bachelor students on the history of populism and violence in political discourses. Co-convenor: devising seminars, lecturing, supervising, assessing and marking students’ undergraduate dissertations.

2020-23 Member of the Equality and Diversity committee, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

2020-23 Member of the ECR committee, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

2018-19 PhD career advisor for AHRC Phd students, University of Cambridge

2011-14 Postgraduate representative appeal committee, University of Fribourg

• Consultancy for an ITV documentary on Margaret Jackson, release Autumn 2023.
• Consultancy for a Netflix documentary on Naomi Dancy, release in Autumn 2023.
• Times Radio, The history of the pill, 9 May 2023
• BBC Forum, Margaret Sanger and her legacy, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct38td
• ‘From population control to reproductive justice’, Blogpost for the Polyphony, website, https://thepolyphony.org/2022/10/06/history-of-reproductive-rights-from-population-control-to-reproductive-justice
• Cambridge Festival Event, ‘The past and future of reproduction’, 4th April 2022.
• ‘Responses to Brook’s sex education guides’, Stories for the Wellcome Collection, website, https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/YT9odBAAACIAOdhX
• Invited expert in contraception for the Haut Conseil à l’Egalité entre les hommes et les femmes, France, 20 April 2021.
• Cambridge Festival Event, ‘Safe Sex for teenagers, A journey through historical and educational sources’, 29 March 2021
• TV interview Vox Pop, Arte, 08.03.2020, https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/091151-008-A/vox-pop/
• Interviewed in Woman’s Hour, BBC, 16.04.2019: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00045kp
• Wellcome Collection, Public talk on youth sexuality, 26.02.2019
• Interviewed and quoted by the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/11/is-marriage-really-on-the-decline-because-of-mens-cheap-access-to-sex.
• Blog post for Notches: “It isn’t so boring if you can have an outside climax!’ Dr Joan Malleson, and sexual counselling’, August 2018 http://notchesblog.com/2018/08/07/this-isnt-so-boring-if-you-can-get-an-outside-climax-dr-joan-malleson-and-sexual-counselling-in-britain/?fbclid=IwAR2U2b5WKB5llX3zSPjBb-cyOnvEVG9izuxdbOCoM7ig0OL0DuDP9_PfhFQ
• Radio interview, versus penser RSR, https://www.rts.ch/play/radio/versus-penser/audio/versus-penser-deux-enfants-cest-deja-pas-mal?id=8385863
• Radio interview Tribu, RSR, 22 June 2015
• Podcast infoclio.ch « Histoire orale » available, http://www.infoclio.ch/fr/node/130397
• Blog : Blog, BIGS, Birkbeck, https://bisrblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/leading-the-way-english-women-doctors-and-contraception-in-transnational-perspective-1930-1970/

• Chair ‘Locating and reconsidering the Lived-Experience of HIV affected-people’, Social History of Medicine Association, University of Liverpool, July 2018.
• Chair, ‘Child Adoption Practices in the Long 20th Century: Trends and Outcomes’ European Social Science History Conference, Belfast, April 2018.
• Discussant ‘Transnational histories of birth control in Catholic countries’, European Social Science History Conference, Belfast, April 2018.
• Chair, ‘Contraception, Family Planning and Gender’ Genre et Contraception, Paris, December 2017.

• Elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Founder and convenor of a writing group for early and mid-career researchers
• Founder and co-convenor of the interdisciplinary Research Network funded by CRASSH (£1,500) Medicine, Health and Agency, 2018-2021
• Advisory Board Member for the AHRC project Inventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Bodies and

Population, 1945-1995 led by Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow)

• Advisory Board Member for the project Risky Hormones led by Jesse Olszynko Gryn (University of
• Strathclyde) and Birgit Nemec (Charite Berlin)
• Member of the Research Network, Strategic Research Initiative, Reproduction, Cambridge University
• Member of the Research Network, European Sexologies
• Member of the Research Network Catholicism and reproductive medicine
• Critical friend to the research project Reanimating data, University of Sussex
• Member of Reproduction reading group, London
• Member of Société de démographie historique
• Member of Social History Society
• Member of Association of the Social History of Medicine
• Reviewer for Social History of Medicine, Medical History, Twentieth Century British History, Journal of Family History, The History of the Family, Gender and History, Palgrave and MacMillan, Reproductive Biomedicine and Society, Annales de démographie historique, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Medical Humanities, Historical Journal, Swiss National Science Foundation, Manchester University Press, European Research Council.
• Convenor of a writing and reading group for post-doc historians, Birkbeck College 2016-2018
• Volunteering at Hibiscus, London, Holloway Prison for women, 2015-2018.