The Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent, offers a fully-funded PhD to work with Dr Rebekah Higgitt. Literary angles on the following suggested topics are welcome (the final topic is specifically textual in nature):
- History of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Royal Greenwich Observatory, especially in the 20th century
- Science and/or scientific training in the Navy, 18th/19th centuries
- Museology and history of science
- History of astronomy and observational sciences in the 18th/19th centuries
- Scientific institutions and government funding in the 19th century
- Science and the public in the 18th/19th centuries, including museums, publishing, performance, biography and satire
Closing date for applications is 29 May 2015. For further information see http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/postgraduate/funding/index.html
Informal enquiries to Dr Higgitt (R.Higgitt@kent.ac.uk) are welcome.
