Megan Graham

Profile

After graduating from the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in BA History and a Distinction in MA Race and Resistance, I began an AHRC-funded PhD with the School of History at Leeds in 2022. Alongside my studies I have worked for the European Research Council  and National Archives (UK), co-founded the AHRC-funded Oral History Collective and served as the PGR Health Histories Research Cluster Assistant. At present I hold responsibilities as PGR Rep for the School of History and an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador for the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.

During the course of my PhD, I have also held international positions as a Visiting Researcher at the Australian National University (Australia) and a Visiting Fellow in Health History at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University (USA). I was awarded the National Archives of Australia – Australian Historical Association Postgraduate Scholarship in 2024 and have been granted funding awards from the Society for the Social History of Medicine, American Association for the History of Medicine and Australian Women’s History Network.

Research interests

Funded by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) through the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK, my doctoral project explores how politics of health and identity were intimately entwined in late Twentieth Century Aboriginal Australia. Documenting the ways in which community-controlled health activism engaged with transnational discourses of racial empowerment and stimulated micro-local and macro-global changes to the way new and Indigenous nations understood health, healing and wellbeing, my thesis primary explores the rise and reach of Aboriginal Medical Services from the 1970s onward. 

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

• MA Race and Resistance
• BA (Hons) History

Professional memberships

• Society for the Social History of Medicine
• European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
• American Association for the History of Medicine
• Australian Historical Association
• Australian Women's History Network
• Royal Historical Society

Student education

I have experience teaching on HIST1000: Exploring History and HIST1520: Global Decolonization.