My last role, as the general Director of the Hypatia Trust, was to act as the main information source about the Trust's book collections and archives about the history of women worldwide. The Trust collects, explores, researches, exhibits and supports the often-overlooked contributions to cultures and communities that women steadily make through their lives and impact.

Long an attribute led by women, both at home and in their societies, is health sustenance and nursing, and this is where the Fellowship stepped in to support my personal interests in the organisational and social history of 'becoming a nurse' in different settings and countries and in realising differential qualifications as new specialisms developed.

This was my first foray into research and writing about the social history of women, and to become an independent sociologist, while participating in educational programmes through speaking tours, lectures, research projects and book publications in the arts, crafts and sciences of more than half of the population of the world.

My last published work was Bronte Territories: Cornwall and the Unexplored Maternal Legacy.