Jill Kirby
Associate Professor in History

Selected publications

Article

Kirby, Jill (2022) The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century. Contemporary British History. pp. 1-24. ISSN 1361-9462

Kirby, F J Observing the 1980s: lead by the University of Sussex in partnership with the British Library Sound Archive. JISC Content Programme 2011-2013.

Book

Kirby, Jill (2019) Feeling the strain: a cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain. Social Histories of Medicine . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526123299

Book Section

Kirby, Jill (2022) Using ice-breakers to encourage classroom confidence. In: Betts, Tab and Oprandi, Paolo (eds.) 100 Ideas for Active learning. University of Sussex Library, University of Sussex, UK, pp. 533-537. ISBN 9780995786271

Kirby, Jill (2019) Designing and developing a foundation year module. In: Garnham, Wendy, Betts, Tab and Oprandi, Paolo (eds.) Disrupting traditional pedagogy: active learning in practice. University of Sussex, University of Sussex, pp. 181-204. ISBN 9780995786240

Kirby, Jill (2015) Working too hard: experiences of stress and worry in post-war Britain. In: Jackson, Mark (ed.) Stress in post-war Britain, 1945-1985. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 23 . Pickering & Chatto, London, pp. 59-74. ISBN 9781781440933 (eBook)

Conference or Workshop Item

Kirby, Jill (2014) Self-help for your nerves: popular understandings of stress in the twentieth century. In: Seminar, 16 October 2014, University of Exeter.

Kirby, F J (2013) Observing the 1980s. In: New Times Revisited, 28-29 June 2013, Universities of Birmingham and Warwick.

Kirby, F J (2013) Observing the 1980s: creating an educational resource. In: Unofficial Histories, 15 June 2013, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Thesis

Kirby, Fiona Jillian (2014) Troubled by life: the experience of stress in twentieth-century Britain. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Sussex.