Leeds HPS: 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science 2-YEAR POSTDOC IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF GENETICS Applications are sought for a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship linked to a new project on the relationship between genetics teaching and genetic determinism. The application deadline is Thursday 9 August 2012. Interviews of shortlisted candidates will take place the following Thursday, with the successful candidate beginning on 1 September 2012. FURTHER DETAILS For more than a century, the teaching of genetics has been organized around concepts originating with Gregor Mendel. But, in the genomics age, is Mendelian pedagogy still fit for purpose? What are the alternatives? And what sorts of attitudes and aptitudes do different kinds of pedagogies promote in students of the science of inheritance? These questions f...