Dr Louise Hide is a Wellcome Trust Fellow in Medical Humanities and joins SHaME as a Senior Associate Fellow. A social and cultural historian who has published on the history of psychiatry and its institutions, her current project is titled ‘Cultures of Harm in Residential Institutions for Long-term Adult Care, Britain 1945-1980s’. She recently co guest edited with Joanna Bourke a special issue of the Social History of Medicine. Her first monograph Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.