A PhD studentship on secrecy in early British aeronautics research is available from 1st September 2007 based at the University of Bristol and supervised primarily by Dr Christine MacLeod in collaboration with Dr Graeme Gooday at the University of Leeds. It is funded by the AHRC as part of a new Leeds/Bristol project "Owning and Disowning Invention: Intellectual Property, Authority and Identity in British Science and Technology, 1880-1920"
The project's main topic is the emergence between 1897 and 1919 of the (Royal) Aeronautical Society of Great Britain as a forum for exchanging information on heavier-than-air flight. In particular the PhD student will investigate two related issues concerning the ownership of intellectual property: first, the changing balance between openness and secrecy in the early Society as it evolved into a professional association; secondly, the impact on the Society of the Government's concern for secrecy in technoscientific matters during World War I.
Further details of this studentship are available for download from http://www.hps.leeds.ac.uk/HPSNews/Invention.htm
or via Katy Lanceley, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT (email [log in to unmask] or phone +44 (0)113-343-3263).
Closing date for this PhD studentship: 13 July 2007. Interviews will take place in Bristol on 26 July.
Enquiries about this PhD studentship may be directed to Christine MacLeod, email [log in to unmask]
Applicants must be either UK residents (full studentship) or EU nationals (fees only). They should normally have, or expect soon to be awarded, a Masters degree in a relevant discipline (history of science, technology and/or medicine; history). The studentships support three years' full-time work for the period of the project (September 2007-August 2010). Standard tuition and maintenance grants will be paid by the AHRC to the nominated student: in the 2007-08 academic year full-time awards will provide a maintenance grant payment of £12,600.
Application forms and further details are available from Katy Lanceley, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, email [log in to unmask] , tel: +44 (0)113 343 3263.
This studentship is an integral part of a new project "Owning and Disowning Invention: Intellectual Property, Authority and Identity in British Science and Technology, 1880-1920", funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, that will be run by the Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol for three years from 1 September 2007. This three-year AHRC project, led by Dr Graeme Gooday (Leeds) will address questions of the co-development of three innovative technical disciplines-electrical engineering, aeronautics and plant breeding-with intellectual property regimes in Britain in the decades around 1900. Particular concerns include the impact of disputes over patenting, secrecy and licensing on the public authority of scientists and engineers.
Dr Graeme Gooday
University Teaching Fellow (2007-09),
Senior Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Science & Director of Learning & Teaching,
Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds,
LEEDS, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone messages: 0113 343 3274
FAX: 0113 343 3265
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