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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||reference|||
|Summary||of the|||Para 1.17|The objects ofthe Society set out in its Constitution||
|purposes||of the||||are to advance the education
of the public
in the||
|charity as set out in||||||social history of medicine
and
in pursuance
of that||
|its governing||||||purpose
to promote research
and disseminate
the||
|document||||||results.||
|Summary
activities||of the main
in relation to|||Para 1.17and
1.19|The charity's
main activities
in furtherance
of its
objects are the editing and production
ofajournal,||
|those purposes|||for|||Social History ofMedicine||
|the public||benefit,
in||||htt s://academic.
ou .com/shm
which includes||
|particular,||the||||research articles and book reviews. Also, the||
|activities,||projects||or||production
ofaseries of scholarly books, Social||
|services|identified|||in||Histories ofMedicine||
|the accounts.||||||htt
s://manchesteruniversit
ress.co.uk/series/social||
|||||||histories-of-medicine/.
The Society maintains
an||
|||||||international
membership,
holds a biennial||
|||||||conference
and sponsors selected other relevant||
|||||||scholarly conferences. The Society also represents||
|||||||the subject
in relevant
policy-making
bodies.||
|||||||Publication
in our outlets and attendance
at||
|||||||conferences
is open to non-members.
Membership||
|||||||for students
and the unwaged
is subsidized
with the||
|||||||added benefit of reduced conference charges.||
|||||||Support
is also offered through
bursaries
for students||
|||||||and early career members
to attend
relevant||
|||||||conferences.
With its activities the Society aims to||
|||||||foster understanding
for and raise the profile of the||
|||||||social history of medicine
both in the UK and||
|||||||internationally.
This includes
lobbying
activities||
|||||||relevant to members,
and more broadly,
history of||
|||||||medicine as a discipline,
and responding
to issues|in|
|||||||relation to the strategies
of relevant
funding
bodies||
|||||||such as the Arts and Humanities
Research
Council,||
|||||||the Economic and Social Research Council or the||
|||||||Wellcome Trust. Funds raised from sales of the||
|||||||journal and other relevant
publications
enable the||
|||||||trustees to fund its commitments
and maintain
a||
|||||||financial reserve.||
|Statement||confirming|||Para 1.18|The trustees
of the charity have paid due regard to||
|whether|the trustees|||||the
uidance
ublished
b
the Charit
Commission||
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|||||SORP reference|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Para 1.38|
|Policy on|grant making||||
|||||Para 1.38|
|Policy on|social investment||||
|including|program||related||
|investment|||||
|||||Para 1.38|
|Contribution||made|by||
|volunteers|||||
|Other|||||
##
|Achieve|men|ts|and Per|formance||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||SORP reference||
||||||As detailed
in each section below,
in 2022|
||||||the charity resumed
more fully its usual,|
||||||although
there was continued
impact from|
|Summary
of the main
achievements
ofthe charity,||||Para 1.20|the Covid-19 pandemic
with a slow return
to in person conferences
and some travel|
|identifying
charity's|the
work|difference the
has made to|||restrictions
still in place internationally.
The
Society's bi-annual
conference
(and 50'"|
|the circumstances|||of its||Anniversary
commemoration)
postponed|
|beneficiaries
and|||any wider||from 2020 did take place in July 2022 at|
|benefits to society as a|||||Swansea
University.
The Society continued|
|whole.|||||as usual
with publication
activities|
||||||producing
an academic peer-reviewed|
||||||journal
and book series. The Society also|
||||||held the first activities due to funding|
||||||received from Wellcome Trust.|
||||||Niembershi p
OUP Reports indicate that there were 190|
||||||members
at the end of 2022, which
is down|
||||||on the previous year (236 members
in|
||||||2021).A downward
trend as a|
||||||conse uence of the continued
im act of the|
|Covid pandemic
with restrictions
and a|slow|
|---|---|
|return to in person conferences.
Such||
|events are useful
in attracting
new student||
|members.
In terms of a breakdown
for|the|
|membership
figures for 2022, student||
|membership
has fallen slightly
remains|and|
|forms 27%(30%in 2021;30.3% in 2020;||
|38.7% in 2019;30.7% in 2018)while||
|individual
membership
figures have risen||
|slightly to 60%(57% in 2021;55.5%2020;||
|49.6% in 2019;57.2% in 2018).||
|Seniors make up 9%with developing||
|countries
at 3%and unwaged
at 1%.||
|For geographical
location, the majority|of|
|our members
continue
to come from the||
|UK, 60% in 2022, 58% in 2021,58.7%|in|
|2020;59.5% in 2019;53.9% in 2018)while||
|most of the remaining
members
are from||
|North America at 14%in 2022 (13%in||
|2021, 11.8% in 2020; 11.7% in 2019;||
|14.4% in 2018).European
membership||
|stands at about 10%(13%in 2021 15%in||
|2020; 14%in 2019;14%in 2018).||
|The membership
rates for 2022 were:||
|Student/Reduced:
227.00,$53.00,641.00.||
|Regular: 250.00,$101.00, &76.00.We|have|
|two members
who do not subscribe
via||
|OUP and their payments
are recorded|in|
|the accounts.
From 2023 there
will be a||
|new membership
rate with online only||
|access to the journal at a20%discounted||
|rate on the print subscription.||
|Publications||
|The Society's journal Social History of||
|Medicine received a similar number
of||
|submissions
in 2022 with 182(180 in 2021;||
|196 in 2020). The Society published
4||
|issues of the journal
in 2022 with a total of||
|56 articles (55 in 2021) and book reviews at||
|65 (65 in 2020), due to increased
page||
|allowance.||
|The book series with Manchester
University||
|Press, Social Histories ofMedicine||
|continues to prosper
with a total of 29||
|books and 2 in press. Since the last return||
|books published
were:||
|Joris Vandendriessche
and Benoit Majerus||
|(eds.) Medical histories ofBelgium. New||
|narratives
on health, care and citizenshipin||
|the nineteenth
and twentieth
centuries.||
|(October 2021).||
|Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand (eds.)||
|Placards, posters, and prescriptions:||
|Cultural histories ofthe National Health||
|Servicein
Britain
June 2022.||
|Janet Weston and Hannah J.Elizabeth||
|---|---|
|(eds.) Histories ofHIVIAIDS in Western||
|Europe: New and regional perspectives.||
|(August 2022).||
|Waltraud
Ernst and Thomas
Mueller (eds.)||
|Alcohol, psychiatry
and society.||
|Comparative
and transnational||
|perspectives,
c. 1700-1990s(October||
|2022).||
|One new initiative
is a book development||
|award (a maximum
of 2x22000 prizes per||
|year) for five years starting
in 2022 to assist||
|scholars and encourage
the forming
of||
|book proposals
in the social history of||
|medicine.||
|Four digital issues of the Society's Gazette||
|were produced
and distributed
via email to||
|members
and made available
on the||
|Society website.||
|Conferencesf Workshops||
|The Society invites applications
for||
|conference
funding
three times a year.||
|A total off6368.00 in grants was awarded||
|in 2022 to support conferences
in the||
|history of medicine
(total paid out for 2022||
|=21980 —made up of F250 from||
|conference
held
in late 2021 plus 21730||
|from 2022 conferences).
A total of22013||
|from 2022 awards
is carried over to 2023||
|as events were postponed
and from the||
|2022 awards a total of 22625.00 is still to||
|be claimed).||
|Conference
awards
included:||
|'Compassion
and Care: Emotions
and||
|Experience
in the care of Children
through||
|History'
held at John Rylands
Institute||
|Manchester||
|'Oxford
History of Medicine at 50' held at||
|Oxford University||
|'Learning
to Cut Bandage and Cure' held|in|
|Paris.||
|The Society held its own biennial||
|conference
in July 2022 hosted
by||
|Swansea
University.
This was supported|by|
|the Wellcome and the Society supported||
|student
travel bursaries
and keynote||
|speakers. The Society also used funds to||
|offer administrative
support at the||
|conference and
to conduct an EDI||
|assessment
and re ort at the conference||
|and present an update
on the Society's||
|---|---|
|anti-racism
workshop
to conference||
|delegates
(recorded
in EC expenses).||
|Student and early career travel bursaries||
|A total off4459.88 in travel bursaries
was||
|paid for students
and early career||
|academics to attend
and present papers|at|
|international
and UK based conferences.||
|The Society honoured
awards
for speakers||
|awarded
in 2020 who did eventually||
|present at the Society's 2022 conference|in|
|Swansea.||
|Prize winners||
|The Society awards an annual
prize, the||
|Roy Porter Essay Prize worth 2500, for the||
|best original
unpublished
essay
in the||
|social history of medicine.
In 2022 the||
|Society also awarded a further f100as||
|prize for short listed essay.||
|The 2021 Roy Porter Essay Prize winner,||
|as announced
at the Society's AGM in||
|2022 was Martijn van der Meer. The||
|winning
essay is titled: 'Sown without care:||
|Dutch eugenicists
and their call for||
|optimising
development
conditions, 1919-||
|1939'.The entry shortlisted
for the essay||
|prize was Margaret
Williams's
'Searching||
|for Care in a Segregated
City: Detroit's||
|Black Hospitals
and the Integration
of||
|American
Healthcare
1945-75'.||
|There were a total of 8 entrants.||
|The winner
of the 2022 Roy Porter Essay||
|Prize is scheduled
to be announced
in||
|autumn
2023.||
|Web and Social Media||
|Our website and social media has||
|continued
to perform despite a transitional||
|period between
officers. The website||
|continues to have international
reach with||
|the majority of site visitors from the UK,||
|followed
by the United States and is in line||
|with previous years. Search engines
and||
|Twitter platform are the main routes people||
|access the main website. The most visited||
|sections of the website for visitors are the||
|home page, followed
by Calls for||
|expressions
of interest.||
|Social media has continued
to grow, with||
|Twitter followers
at 7009followers
(up from||
|8429) and Facebook has seen a decline|in|
|engagement
but views have increased.||
|||||Wellcome Funded
Events and Networks||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Grants||
|||||As a result of the successful
grant||
|||||applications
in 2021 (see additional||
|||||information).
The Society held its first event||
|||||4-5 July 2022 in Birmingham
(UK) with a||
|||||residential
workshop
on anti-racism.
There||
|||||were 30attendees
on each day. As a||
|||||result, further events and initiatives
are||
|||||planned
for 2023.||
|||||The first round of Network Grant||
|||||applications
took place with a deadline
of||
|||||31 May 2022. There were two awards of||
|||||the Wellcome-funded
Society for the Social||
|||||History of Medicine Research Community||
|||||Networks
Both begin activities
in 2023.||
|||||Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University
of||
|||||London),
Kate Davison
(University
of||
|||||Edinburgh),
Katherine
Hubbard
(University||
|||||of Surrey),
Mo Moulton
(University
of||
|||||Birmingham),
Helen Spandler
(University|of|
|||||Central
Lancashire),
&Rebecca Wynter||
|||||(University
of Amsterdam)
- 'Twentieth-||
|||||Century
Psy-Disciplines
and LGBTQIA+||
|||||Communities:
Histories
and Contexts of||
|||||'Conversion
Therapies"||
|||||Peder Clark (University
of Strathclyde)
&||
|||||Jamie Banks (Loughborough
University)—||
|||||'JOINT: An Early Career Drugs History||
|||||Research
Network.
Establishing
a drugs||
|||||history research
network
for Early Career||
|||||Researchers
in the UK and Ireland'||
|Additional|information||(optional)|||
|You ma|choose to include further statements|||where relevant
about||
|||||In October 2021 the society applied for two||
|||||grants from the Wellcome Trust. One for||
|Achievements||against|Para 1.41|825,000 to fund Society events (over 48||
|objectives set||||months). The application
was successful||
|||||and grant funds are administered
via the||
|||||University
of Strathclyde.
Wellcome funds||
|||||will enable
bringing
scholars together for||
|||||physical
meetings
is essential
to create the||
|||||safe space needed for such sensitive||
|||||discussions as anti-racism,
facilitated
by a||
|||||clinical professional
and academics||
|||||experienced
in this area, and regarding||
|||||concerns about careers.||
|||||Another grant application
for f25,000was||
|||||to support
the objective of directing
funding||
|||||to networking
and networked
events. These||
|||||serial activities promise the space to be||
|||||both innovative
and sustained; a space that||
|||||has often been limited
in the field of the||
||||history of|medicine
and health.|What these|What these|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||sustained|conversations
will do is provide|||
||||room for||||
||||creativity|and thinking,
offering|||
||||transformative
scholarship
and||assuredly||
||||facilitating|links and work that would|||
||||otherwise|prove impossible,
especially||due|
||||to our current
availability
of Rf500 per||||
||||conference
funding
application,||limited|so|
||||as to support as many activities as||||
||||possible.|The Society plans to|fund||
||||between|four and seven networks
with||a|
||||maximum|of 26000 per award,|with two||
||||rounds
of applications
for support
in 2022||||
||||and 2023.||||
|Performance
of fundraising
activities against objectives||Para 1.41|||||
|set|||||||
|Investment|performance|Para 1.41|||||
|against objectives|||||||
|Other|||||||
##
|inanc|ial
Review|ial
Review||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Review|of the charity's|||Para 1.21|The charity's assets increased
during 2022,|
|financial|position|at the end|||amounting
to F127,822 in cash reserves at|
|of the period|||||the end of the period. Although
there has|
||||||been an increase
in applications
for|
||||||conference
funding
and travel bursaries,|
||||||applications
have not yet reached
pre-|
||||||pandemic
levels.|
|Statement
explaining|||the|Para 1.22|The Society has a current
policy of holding|
|policy for holding||reserves|||reserves to cover one year's cover cash|
|stating|why they|are held|||flow requirements
and for any potential|
||||||gaps
in income.
In addition
extra reserves|
||||||are being held should the running
of the|
||||||journal be affected as aconsequence
of|
||||||Plan Sand publishers'
commitment
to|
||||||transitioning
their journals to open access|
||||||through
the Transformative
Journal
model|
||||||htt
s://www. coalition-s. or
/ lan-s-|
||||||com
liant-transformative-'ournals/
The EC|
||||||||has set a total reserve off60,000 until the|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||impact is clear.|
||||||||Reserves are held
in a savings account.|
||||||||The trustees
recognise that the current|
||||||||level of reserves are higher than the set|
||||||||amount,
due to the impact pandemic|
||||||||restrictions
and are exploring
ways of|
||||||||utilising excess reserves.
From discussions|
||||||||at the 2020 and 2021 AGM and at EC|
||||||||meetings,
plans have been made to direct|
||||||||excess reserves towards
more support to|
||||||||early career scholars and offer paid|
||||||||internships
within the Society to support|
||||||||work to address issues of inclusivity
and|
||||||||diversity
in the field of the social history of|
||||||||medicine.
Discussions
and further|
||||||||proposals
will be put forward
in 2023.|
|Amount|of reserves|||held||Para 1.22|2123,728|
|Reasons|for|holding||zero||Para 1.22||
|reserves||||||||
|Details of fund materially|||||in|Para 1.24||
|deficit||||||||
|Explanation||of any||||Para 1.23|The trustees
have reviewed
major risks.|
|uncertainties||about||the|||Procedures are in place to manage these|
|charity continuing|||as a going||||risks. Income flow has been fairly steady|
|concern|||||||over recent years, and as the Society does|
||||||||not have employees,
risks are limited.|
||||||||Issues arising are discussed
during|
||||||||Executive Committee
meetings. The|
||||||||Committee
meets three times per year.|
|Additional
information|(optional)|(optional)|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|You ma
choose to include further statements|||where relevant||about||||
||||The charity|is almost wholly|||reliant on the||
||||income generated
by its|||journal||and other|
|The charity's
principal
sources of funds (including||Para 1.47|publications.
invest much|As detailed above, we re-
of this into promoting
the|||||
|any fundraising)|||subject through||support|for|conferences||
||||and individual||researchers.||||
|Investment
policy and
objectives including
any||Para 1.46|||||||
|social investment
policy|||||||||
|adopted|||||||||
|A description
of the principal||Para 1.48|||||||
|risks facing the charity|||||||||
|Other|||||||||
##
|Description|of charity's|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|trusts:||||||
|Type of governing||Para 1.25|The charity was formed by a written|||
|document|||Constitution,
which was updated
in|2012||
|(trust deed,|royal charter)||and again
in 2022 and is available|on the||
||||SSHM website|||
||||htt s://sshm. or / orffolio/the-societ|/||
|How is the charity||Para 1.25|The charity
is governed
by its trustees,
the|||
|constituted?|||elected members
of the Executive|||
|(e.g unincorporated|||Committee
(EC), which meets at least three|||
|association,|CIO||times a
ear.|||
|Trustee selection
methods||Para 1.25|The Chairperson
and other officers|are||
|including
details of any|||elected by the EC from their members.
EC|||
|constitutional|provisions e.g.||members
must be members
of the|Society||
|election to post or name of|||and are elected by the membership|and||
|any person|or body entitled||serve a term ofthree years. The Officers||of|
|to appoint one or more|||the Society are the Chair, Secretary and|||
|trustees|||Treasurer
and tenure of office is three years|||
||||in each instance. Office holders
may, at the|||
||||end of their term of office, complete|their||
||||term of EC membership.
Office holders
may|||
||||also complete their tenure of office|even|if|
||||their elected period of membership|of the||
||||Executive Committee
has expired.|||
||||Candidates
for EC must be proposed
and|||
||||seconded
by other members
of the|Society.||
||||The journal
and book series editors|are ex||
||||officio members
of the EC (without|voting||
||||rights) and are not trustees
of the charity.|||
|Additional||information|(optional)|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|You ma|choose to include further statements|||where relevant
about||
|||||New Executive Committee
members|are|
|||||directed to Charity Commission's
guide,||
|Policies
adopted|and procedures
for the induction||Para 1.51|The Essential Trustee (CC3) which
explains the main legal responsibilities||
|and training||oftrustees||trustees
have.||
|||||Also, to the National
Council for Voluntary||
|||||Organisations
(NOVO) as a suggested||
|||||resource to find out more about becoming a||
|||||charity trustee.||
|The charity's
structure
and|organisational
any wider|Para 1.51|
|---|---|---|
|network
with|which the||
|charity works|||
|Relationship|with any|Para 1.51|
|related parties|||
|Other|||
##
|Charit|name|||Societ
for the Social Histor|Societ
for the Social Histor|Societ
for the Social Histor|of Medicine|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Other name the chari|||uses|||||
|Re istered charit||number||278414||||
|Charity's|principal|address||University|Of Kent|||
|||||School of|History,|Room N3||
|||||Rutherford|College|||
|||||Canterbury||||
|||||Kent||||
|||||CT2 7NZ||||
|mes|ofthe charity trust|ees who manage the|charity|charity||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Trustee name|Office (ifany)|Dates acted
ear||if not for whole||Name
to a|of person (or body) entitled
oint trustee
if an||
||Dr Rosemary|Chair/EC
Member|Stepped|down||as Chair||||
||Cresswell||on
1 July 2022|||||||
||Dr Victoria Bates|Secretary|Stepped|down||1 July||||
||||2022|||||||
||Dr Anna|Treasurer|Stepped|down||1 July||||
||Greenwood||2022|||||||
|4|Dr Beatriz Pichel|EC Member|Elected|1|July 2022|||||
||Dr Laura Kelly|EC Member|Stepped|down||1 July||||
||||2022|||||||
||Dr Cara Dobbing|EC Member|Stepped|down||1 July||||
||||2022|||||||
||Dr Rebecca|EC Member|Re-elected||1 July 2022|||||
||Wynter|||||||||
||Dr Clare Hickman|EC Member|Stepped|down||1 July||||
||||2022|||||||
||Dr Richard McKay|EC|Treasurer||from|1 July||||
|||Member/Treasurer|2022|||||||
||Dr Stephen|EC Member|Re-elected||1 July 2022|||||
||Mawdsley|||||||||
||Dr Samiksha|EC Member||||||||
||Sehrawat|||||||||
|12|Dr Lisa Smith|EC Member/Chair|Chair from||1 July 2022|||||
|13|Dr Vanessa Heggie|EC Member||||||||
|14|Dr Claire Jones|EC
Member/Secretary|Secretary
2022||from|1 July||||
|15||||||||||
|16||||||||||
|17||||||||||
|18||||||||||
|19||||||||||
|20||||||||||
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|unds held as cust|odi|
|---|---|
|Description
of the assets||
|held
in this capacity||
|Name and objects of the||
|charity on whose behalf|the|
|assets are held and how|this|
|falls within the custodian||
|charity's objects||
|Details of arrangements|for|
|safe custody and||
|segregation
of such assets||
|from the charity's
own||
|assets||
##
|Additional
information
(|Additional
information
(|optional)||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Names and addresses
of||advisers|(Optional|information)||||
|Type of|Name||Address|||||
|adviser||||||||
|Financial|Paul Cowham,|MA,|Green Fish|Resource Centre, 46-50||Oldham|Street,|
||FCA, DchA||Manchester|MS 1LE||||
|Name of chief executive||or names|of senior|staff members|(Optional|information)||
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|||||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Total|Total|
|Recei ts||||||||
|Income from charitable|||activities|||||
|Ro alties OUP||||||24,473|24,249|
|Ro alties Book Series||||||1,218|1,531|
|Editorial Retainer||||||7,990|3,768|
|Members hi
Fees||||||14|14|
|||||||33,695|29,562|
|Investment
income||||||||
|Interest||||||97||
|Total Recei ts||||||33,792|29,569|
|Pa ments||||||||
|Administration
- Exec||Secretar||||6,706|3,406|
|Honoraria
SHM Co-Editors||||||6,000|5,700|
|Editorial Assistants'|Fees|||||720|600|
|Editorial Office Ex enses||||osta e etc||674|727|
|Editorial Board &Book Series Editorial|||||Ex enses|1,501||
|Internshi
s/Fellowshi||s*||||2,500||
|Executive Cttee Meetin|||Ex|enses||4,874||
|Website & Dro box||||||216|250|
|Gazette
fl ers
ublici|||||||196|
|||||||23,191|10,879|
|Conference
Grants||||||1,980||
|Bursaries||||||4,460|350|
|Essa
Prize||||||888|700|
|||||||7,328|1,050|
|Inde
endent
Examination||||||550|550|
|Bank Char es||||||281|123|
|Miscellaneous||||||150||
|||||||981|673|
|Total Pa ments||||||31,500|12,602|
|Net of recei
ts/
a|ments|||||2,292|16,967|
|Bank+cash brou
ht|forward|||||125,530|108,564|
|Cash sur
lus/deficit||in the||ear||2,292|16,967|
|Bank+cash carried forward||||||127,822|125,531|
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