Biography:

Edmund Ramsden joined the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter in 2008 as a research fellow on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the history of stress. He has previously worked as a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, exploring the history of eugenics, population genetics and demography, and as a Research Officer on the Leverhulme Trust and ESRC funded project How Well Do Facts travel? at LSE. His research is centered on the relations between the social and biological sciences, with a particular focus on the study and control of populations. He is currently exploring the influence of rodent experiments in overcrowding on the human sciences, social policy, environmental design and urban planning, and the development of the fields of environmental or architectural psychology in Britain and the United States, concerned with the effects of the physical environment on health and behaviour, and with designing environments that reduce the stress of urban living.

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