Dr Cora Salkovskis

Associate Fellow

Cora Salkovskis was the former Public Engagement and Events Coordinator for the project, replacing Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh who is on maternity leave. Her previous role was in research integrity and she is committed to fostering a positive research culture, supporting researchers in navigating ethically complex and emotionally demanding research. She also sits on the steering committee for the Challenging Research Network. Her own research applies a phenomenological and reflexive methodological framework to past experiences of and approaches to mental health, diagnosis, and disabled corporeality. She has a longstanding interest in the history of science and medicine in relation to historical and contemporary issues around ‘shellshock’, ‘PTSD’, ‘trauma’, and ‘resilience-speech’. She recently completed her doctoral project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, entitled ‘”Queer mind and body”: hallucinations, delusions, and the experiences of the body in the British Asylum, c.1840-1914.’