Grace Whorrall-Campbell

Grace Whorrall-Campbell is a historian of psy-science, sexuality, and labor. She is currently a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences Research Group at the MPIWG. Grace completed her PhD in January 2024 at the University of Cambridge. The thesis, Psychoanalysis, Management and Labour in the British Workplace, 1942–1970 uncovered the overlooked, and ultimately unsuccessful, efforts by British psy-experts to refashion workplace relations during and after the Second World War. While at the MPIWG, Grace will prepare her doctoral thesis for publication, as well as starting a new project on the psychosocial and homosexuality in post-war Britain.
Grace was a visiting researcher at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München–Berlin in the spring of 2023. Between 2019 and 2023, she was a member of the New York–Cambridge Training Collaboration, organized between New York University, Columbia University and the University of Cambridge. Grace has published on the history of emotions, sexuality and labor in Britain, and has an article on experiments in workers’ psychiatric rehabilitation in mid-century Britain forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences.
Between 2022 and 2023, Grace was a member of The NewBridge Project’s Collective Studio, an artist-led space in Newcastle. Grace maintains an artistic practice alongside her academic research, exploring the politics of relationality, community and expertise through filmmaking and social practice.