Dear all,
The deadline for the project below has been extended until after the
Christmas break, applications should now be submitted by Monday 15 January.
Best wishes,
Charlotte
On 28/11/2017 09:51, Charlotte Connelly wrote:
> The Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of
> Cambridge, is delighted to be hosting a BSHS Engagement Fellowship for
> a postgraduate student in the first half of 2018. The Engagement
> Fellow will deliver a project to share stories of climate change and
> its impacts.
>
> Supported by the British Society for the History of Science, this post
> supports our aim of ensuring we don't just deliver messages about
> climate change through contemporary science communication, but instead
> through a range of types of interpretation including arts and
> humanities based research.
>
> We would like to suggest two options for the successful candidate,
> however we are open to other climate history proposals:
>
> 1. Research and produce a short film and supporting resources for
> our education offer. The Engagement Fellow would be trained and
> supported to produce a brief, identify film makers, research content
> and contributors, and liaise with collections staff about the
> inclusion of objects. This film would complement our existing set of
> films and education resources:
> https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/resources/
>
> 2. Suggest and implement an update to one of our permanent displays
> that introduces the history of climate change. This might be, for
> example, an update to a display about the Northwest Passage that not
> only describes the nineteenth century search for the passage, but also
> introduces today’s tourism in the region as the ice retreats; it might
> involve looking at the science undertaken by Captain Scott’s crew and
> relating that to how theories of weather and climate developed; or it
> could be researching the work that the Scott Polar Research Institute
> undertook in the 1950s to map ice sheets and proposing a way to
> incorporate that into the display.
>
> Full details of how to apply can be found here:
> http://www.bshs.org.uk/bshs-engagement-fellow-the-polar-museum-climate-histories
>
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