(Roundtable) Healing histories

Laura Sharp is a professor of pedagogy in the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. Her work focuses on creating inclusive learning environments that promote belonging and encourage critical reflection on power, knowledge, and representation. She has led collaborative staff-student projects to enhance representation within curricula, including curriculum decolonisation initiatives and the co-creation of the Power Shift game, which helps learners explore how power is shaped by context and circumstance. A Principal Fellow of Advance HE, Laura is recognised for her leadership in inclusive curriculum transformation, student partnership, and evidence-informed educational practice across the university and beyond. 

Salma is a global historian and the Co-Lead Coordinator for the Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration. Salma works to bring forward histories of PoC communities within colonial networks and in colonial histories, focusing on narratives of exchange, participation, and agency in cross-cultural exchanges and identity-making.  

Ebo is a sixth-year medical student at the University of Edinburgh. She is co-founder of the university’s African and Caribbean Medical Society, a student community invested in the social, academic, and professional development of Black heritage healthcare students. In 2024, she completed an intercalated degree in Anthropology and Sociology of Medicine. This opportunity was integral to Ebo’s conceptualisation of medicine. She developed a keen interest in the history of science, knowledge creation, and ultimately, the decolonial reimagination of medicine and healthcare. She was recently nominated as one of three hundred people representing Edinburgh Medical School and has been recognised as a Future Black Leader. As her time in medical school comes to a close, Ebo strives to continue enhancing her clinical education and career with the social sciences. 

Hannah-Louise Clark (she/her) is a senior lecturer in Global Economic and Social History and an associate of the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. She holds a PhD and MA in History/History of Science from Princeton University and an AM in Regional Studies—Middle East from Harvard University. Her past and ongoing research bridge the gap between history of medicine and global health policy, with a geographical focus on North Africa in its Islamic, Jewish, Ottoman, and French colonial contexts, ca. 1800 to the present.