Kate Davison is a historian of sexuality, psychiatry and sexology and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. In September 2021 she will take up the position of DAAD Lecturer in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Gilbert Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she completed a PhD in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies in 2020. Drawing on the histories of emotions, medicine and social movements, her research focuses on the history of aversion therapy, behaviourism and the global circulation of Pavlovian ideas in the ‘psy’ sciences throughout the twentieth century, with special reference to sexuality and gender, as well as feminist and queer engagements with science, medicine and psychiatry.