School of Arts doctoral student success
Jessica Borge, a doctoral student funded by the AHRC, was selected as one of 10 students in the UK from 150 applicants to provide an image gallery on the Arts and Humanities Research Council site.
Jessica Borge, a doctoral student funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), was selected as one of 10 students in the UK from 150 applicants to provide an image gallery on the Arts and Humanities Research Council website.
The research centres on the contraceptive industry in 1960s England, and examines how manufacturers communicated the availability and desirability of their products to private sector consumers during the first decade of 'the Pill'.
Further details of Jessica's research can be found on The Hub, the research and development forum exchange, hosted by the Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice within the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies.
[Image: Journal Ad [Detail], Practitioner, January 1962. Searle / 'Conovid'. By kind permission of Pfizer. Courtesy of Julia Larden, and the Wellcome Library, London. Photography by J Borge 2014 CC BY 4.0]