Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Primary fields of research
Historical Trauma: transnational and cultural approaches
War, violence and psyche 19th-21st c
Migration: histories of experience, memory and narrative
Methodologies (micro; oral; visual)
Teaching
I have a strong interest in the development of teaching methodologies with a particular interest in digital archives and online sources, group teaching and learning, and the uses of visual materials for learning about the past. Recently taught courses include:
War, Technology and Culture in the 20th c (MA)
Migration Histories, Migration Stories 1800-2000 (MA)
Visualising the Migrant Past (MA)
Europe's 20th century: societies and cultures (BA)
Traumatic Memory: personal and collective histories (BA)
London 1800-2000 (BA)
External positions
Visiting Research Professor, University of California at Riverside
30 Jan 2016 → 30 Jun 2016
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- cultural history
- social history
- Britain 19th century
- Britain 20th century
- migration history
- mentalities
- British Isles history
- shell shock
- film and society
- pop music and society
- visual arts and society
- traumatic experience
- memory
- life-stories
- film and photography
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
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Migrant Emotions: Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces
Cancian, S. (Editor), Leese, P. (Editor) & Mikulová, S. (Editor), 2024, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 264 p. (Migrations and Identities).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Migrant Representations: life story, investigation, picture
Leese, P., 2022, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 304 p. (Migrations and Identities, Vol. 9).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Review Essay: Memory Cultures at the Great War Centenary
Leese, P., 1 Dec 2024, In: History. 109, 388, p. 586-592Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Alternative Histories of Resilience: After and Before PTSD
Leese, P., 22 Nov 2022, Resilience: Militaries and Militarism. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, p. 75-98 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Resilience before PTSD: or, Robert Vas vs The Bomb
Leese, P., 2022, In: Critical Military Studies. 8, 4, p. 428-442 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Limits of Trauma: Experience and narrative in Europe c. 1945
Leese, P., 1 Jan 2022, Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War Two. Leese, P. & Kivimaki, V. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, p. 3-26 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media
Leese, P. (Editor), Crouthamel, J. (Editor) & Kohne, J. B. (Editor), 2021, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 424 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War
Leese, P., 1 Oct 2014, Revised ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Resilience and Reconstruction
Leese, P. (Organizer)
30 Nov 2023 → 1 Dec 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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11th International Health Humanities Conference.
Leese, P. (Workshop leader)
21 Sept 2023 → 23 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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War Trauma and Mass Violence
Leese, P. (Participant)
19 Jun 2023 → 23 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Witnessing the Now
Leese, P. (Participant)
24 Feb 2023Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Personal Sources in Migration Studies
Leese, P. (Organizer)
25 Nov 2022Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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Culture and the Mind
Leese, P. (Organizer) & Antic, A. (Organizer)
28 May 2021Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Living in the Aftermaths
Leese, P. (Participant)
23 Apr 2026 → 24 Apr 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Creative Therapeutics
Leese, P. (Participant)
19 Mar 2026 → 20 Mar 2026Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference