Doctor Natasha Mauthner
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 1994
Subject Area: Social Sciences
The Wingate Scholarship enabled me to spend the academic year 1994/95 at Harvard University extending my doctoral research on motherhood and postnatal depression which I had completed in 1994 at the University of Cambridge. My research was subsequently published by Harvard University Press (2002),’The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression’. Following my time in the United States, I moved to Scotland and I took up a research position at the University of Edinburgh managing a programme of research on mental health issues. I later moved to the University of Aberdeen where I am currently a Reader and teach courses on gender issues in organisations and on research methods. My research focuses on work, family and community life in the oil and gas industry and in rural areas. I also write academic articles on the social and political organisation of social science research and contemporary social science research practices.