Our People

Dr Fiona Bowler

Research Member of Common Room

Research Associate

Medicine and Technology

Fiona currently works as a Research Associate with the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, where she is helping to build an oral history archive for the Royal Army Medical Corps. She has taught modern British history at the University of Southampton. Before coming to Oxford where she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of South Wales on the project ‘An Oral History of British Nuclear Test Veterans’. Her principle research interests are in the post-war British military and the Cold War.

She is currently completing a book which will be published with Liverpool University Press on the history of the British nuclear test veteran community. Fiona’s work focusses particularly on using oral histories to explore the experience of military service in post-war Britain, and on considering how ideas of masculinity have been shaped by militarism. She also has an interest in the history of radiation within public health and its military applications.