Ute Oswald

Ute is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She holds master’s degrees from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the University of Oxford and completed her PhD at the University of Warwick. She is a historian of psychiatry, focusing on asylum and mental health histories in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain and abroad. She is a book review editor for the journal History of Psychiatry, an editorial board member of the journal Exchanges and part of the COST Action network on European Health Histories. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ History of Medicine Special Interest Group. She has given talks and published widely on recreation and religion in British asylums, and her first monograph entitled Entertaining the Insane: Recreation in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan for publication in 2027.