Dr Caitlín Smith

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We will be emailing everyone who has registered early next week with all the details and the Zoom link 📩

Looking forward to presenting my work on single mothers and maintenance claims at what is sure to be a fantastic conference📚

With the 2026 Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Awards open, we reflect on the 2025 winners. Dr Caitlín Smith has kindly written on her winning research for the Heritage Centre blog. Read about maternal mortality in Belfast during the first half of the 20th century here: https://tinyurl.com/4ub8w5s9 👶

Thanks to @whaireland.bsky.social for including some of my work on their Emerging Scholars Blog. You can read my piece on the regulation of midwives in Belfast below

Hi Leanne- the Anthropological Index Online should have a list of articles published in Ulster Folklife, though can be a little awkward to use in terms of search results. Hopefully this link will work for you!

aio.therai.org.uk/journal/1525...

For the #16DaysofActivism I’ve written a blog piece on the treatment of solo mothers in Belfast during the 20th century. You can read it here:

www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/asset...