AHRC Studentship MSc History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Imperial College London
AHRC MSc Scholarship in History of Science, Medicine and Technology
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at (CHoSTM) at Imperial College London invites applications for an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) MSc studentship to begin in October 2012. The scholarship is available to students from the UK, and is fees only for EU students.
Applicants should have an exceptional academic track record and outstanding research potential in the history of science, medicine and technology.
About the Centre and the postgraduate programmes
The history of science and technology has been taught and researched at Imperial since the early 1960s. We are a vibrant intellectual community of approximately 20 faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and PhD students, regularly hosting visiting researchers and visiting doctoral students. The Master’s programme numbers around 30 students, and we teach 400 undergraduates from all departments at Imperial College.
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the Centre was awarded the highest rating of all 83 UK history departments: 40 per cent of its research was classed as world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, with another 40 per cent judged internationally excellent.
Areas of research strength are history of modern medicine and medical and veterinary science; technological risk and the environment 18th c - 20th c; science and technology in the 20th c; government and expertise; the military and war; agriculture. Recent alumni of the Centre’s PhD programme hold positions at Birkbeck College, York University, King’s College London, ETH Zurich, and the Center for Human and Social Sciences, Madrid. For further information about the Centre, please visit: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience
The taught MSc programme is the largest of its kind in the UK. Postgraduate students also attend seminars and workshops at other London institutions, such as the Institute of Historical Research, and use the Wellcome Library, the British Library, and London’s many other academic libraries for their research. The Centre is located in the Imperial College Library which includes the UK’s Science Museum Library, one of the world’s foremost collections of printed sources and secondary literature on science, technology, and medicine. For more details please see http://www.londoncentre-hstm.ac.uk/
Application procedure
Application to the MSc programme is via the Imperial College electronic application system, which requests two letters of reference:
There is no separate form for the AHRC Scholarship. Please mark the box to indicate you are interested in being considered for funding opportunities.
Applications for the MSc programme are currently being reviewed and applicants are usually interviewed unless overseas. Applications received after 15 April 2012 may not be considered. The award will be announced in May 2012.
To be considered for the award, applicants must submit with their electronic application a 1-2 page personal statement of academic interests, reasons for undertaking postgraduate study in history of science, medicine and technology, and possible areas of dissertation research.
Contacts
General enquiries: CHOSTM Administrator
MSc Admissions Tutor: Dr Rosemary Wall, r.wall@imperial.ac.uk