Carole Rawcliffe was an editor of the History of Parliament Trust before becoming a Senior Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at UEA. She was made Reader in the History of Medicine and Professor of Medieval History.
Her research focusses upon the theory and practice of medicine in medieval England with particular emphasis upon hospitals, the inter-conneciotn between healing and religion and urban health. As editor of The History of Norwich, she maintains an interest in the East Anglian region and has written extensively on its medical provision. Her book, Leprosy in Medieval England is a study of medieval responses to disease. She is currently investigating concepts of health and welfare before the Reformaition.
Her undergraduate teaching comprises courses on "Medicine & Society before the Seventeenth Century", "Agincourt to Bosworth; England in the Wars of the Roses" and "Death, the Body and Disease" and at MA level "Studies in the History of Medieval Medicine" and "English Paleography".
