Clare Hickman

I am Reader in Environmental and Medical History at Newcastle University. My latest book is The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science and Horticulture in Britain published by Yale University Press. Other areas of expertise include: sensory history for inclusion in historic landscape interpretation; the relationship of ideas of health to the open-air leisure movements of the early twentieth century; the design and use of nineteenth and twentieth-century English hospital and asylum gardens; and the role of medical practitioners in the Victorian parks movement. By examining the creation and use of green spaces in relation to changing medical concepts, my research crosses the disciplinary boundaries of medical, landscape and enviornmental history as well as the history of science.

You can read my full publication list by clicking on ‘publications’ here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/clarehickman.html

Before arriving at Newcastle in 2019, I was a Senior Lecturer in History at the University Chester, a Wellcome Fellow in Medical History & Humanities at King’s College London (2013-15) and a Research Fellow on the Leverhulme funded Historic Parks & Gardens of England project at the University of Bristol (2007-2012). I have also worked as a museum assistant, writer and editor for Usborne publishing and as a Research Facilitator for Oxford University. Since 2022 I have been a Trustee of the Gardens Trust.