Hi!

I'm Georgia Grainger and I'm a (hopefully) final year PhD researcher looking at the social history of vasectomy in Britain, using oral history as well as archives to draw together a general history, since there's not really one out there already! I work at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and my research project operates out of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) and the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC). I've written a general audience piece for Prospect (note, Paul Erlich was not a German physician, the editor googled the name to include more clarification of who he was, found the wrong Paul Erlich, and has not changed it since I spotted it, please ignore that!), if you want to get a general idea of what I'm looking at.

I'm also on twitter as @sniphist, it's mainly pictures of my guinea pigs but I do tweet my research sometimes.

More broadly, I teach undergrads on histories of drugs/medicines and histories of diseases in society, and do a lot of oral history theorising around intersubjectivity of research and of my role as a young woman interviewing older men about their vasectomies.

Ask me anything!

Edit: Thank you all for your questions, I've had a lot of fun answering them! I'm going to call it a night for this AMA, but if you have any more questions for me, feel free to give me a shout on twitter.