Dr Joanna Phillips

Profile

As Research and Impact Development Officer, my main responsiblities include:

• Working with the Director and Deputy Director of Research and Innovation in all aspects of School research strategy, culture, and administration.
• Working with the Director of Impact in supporting engageed research throughout the School.
• Providing high-level support for the School’s Research Excellence Framework submission.
• Managing of School research finance.
• Managing School research and impact data using institutional information management systems.
• Managing the School’s visiting research fellow programme.
• Oversight of the School’s research events and activities.

From 2025 I am seconded part-time to REF 2029 in the role of Panel Secretary.

Research interests

I am an historian of the crusades, health, medicine and gender in the central middle ages, with occasional forays into the early modern. I gained my PhD from the Institute for Medieval Studies in 2017. My thesis is entitled ‘The Experience of Sickness and Health during Crusader Campaigns to the Eastern Mediterranean, 1095–1274’, and is available for consultation here. My current project is a collaborative edition and translation of a medical text with crusading connections. Read more here.

I welcome invitations for book review. I have reviewed for History, Speculum, The Journal of Religious Literature, History and Culture, and De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History, and Renaissance Quarterly.

Research projects

Developing Healthy Engagement

Find out more about research projects in the School of History.

Professional memberships

• Association of Research Managers and Administrators
• Royal Historical Society
• Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East