Dr Lynsey Cullen is a Daphne Jackson Trust Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of York. Her current research project (funded by the AHRC and the ESRC) focuses on the history of patient data from the nineteenth century to the present day. Dr Cullen’s research interests include the history of hospitals, medical women, welfare, and mental healthcare. Her PhD (funded by a Wellcome Trust Postgraduate Scholarship) carried out at Oxford Brookes University examined patient case records of the Royal Free Hospital during the early twentieth century.  Publications include themes exploring the history of hospital welfare, mental healthcare and post-mortem practice.  Dr Cullen is also a professional playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author.