Postdoctoral Fellowship: History of Popular Science in C19 Ireland
A two-year postdoctoral fellowship is available from September 2003 for
a project on the history of popular science in nineteenth-century
Ireland. The fellowship is funded by the Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, as part of a project on Networks of
Science and Culture in Ireland at the Department of History, National
University of Ireland, Galway. The project is organised in
collaboration with Queen’s University, Belfast, and the fellow have
contacts with staff from Galway and Belfast. The will be based in the
Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, at Galway.
The fellowship carries a stipend of Euro 32,000 per annum.
The fellow will investigate the networks of popular science in Ireland
in the nineteenth century. The precise form of the project will depend
on the successful applicant’s area of expertise and interest, but it is
expected to focus particularly on the material cultures (excluding print
culture) of popular science, for instance, exhibitions, zoos, botanical
gardens, lecture-demonstrations. Applicants with experience of using
images and/or objects as sources would be particularly welcome to apply.
Details of the History Department can be found at
http://www.nuigalway.ie/history. Details of the Centre can be found at
http://www.nuigalway.ie/cshshc.
Applicants should have completed a PhD (by 1st September 2003) in either
the history of science and technology in the nineteenth century, or
nineteenth-century Irish history, and should have expertise in an area
directly relevant to the fellowship project. Applicants should send a
curriculum vitae, list of publications, synopsis of PhD thesis, covering
letter and the names of two referees to Dr Aileen Fyfe, Department of
History, National University of Ireland, Galway. Informal inquiries can
be made to Aileen Fyfe, [log in to unmask]
THE CLOSING DATE IS WEDNESDAY 5th JUNE 2003
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Dr Aileen Fyfe
Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
[until August]
University of Cambridge
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Cambridge CB3 9EW
tel 01223 760485
tel 01223 766886 (reception, for messages)
fax 01223 765276
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Dept. of History
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway
Ireland
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