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Registration is now open for The Making of Measurement, an international conference to be held at the University of Cambridge on 23-24 July 2015. The Making of Measurement is an interdisciplinary conference that seeks to consolidate an emerging international community of scholars interested in the history and/or philosophy of measurement. This new wave of scholarship is still in an embryonic stage and no general conceptual frameworks or schools of thought have yet emerged. Inevitably, tensions exist between methodologically-diverse approaches across the fields of philosophy, history, and sociology of science, particularly with respect to whether measurement outcomes reflect facts about nature, or about human tools and concepts. Hence the goal of this conference to bring together scholars to review recent advances and to identify key issues for further development. This decade is also seeing dramatic changes in the metric system because four scientific units are being redefin...

Deadline extended to 5 th June.  Please forward to suitable candidates Applications for a three year AHRC studentship are invited from outstanding candidates domiciled in the UK or EU with an interest in oral history, history of science, technology and medicine or postwar British history. The successful applicant will register for a PhD while working on a collaborative project between National Life Stories (the oral history fieldwork charity based at the British Library) and the University of Leicester which will focus on how commercialisation and privatisation affected the lives of government scientists. This project provides an opportunity to address broad questions about social and cultural change in late twentieth century Britain through a detailed case study. The student will be based in the School of History at the University of Leicester which has a vibrant community of PhD students, including a number holding collaborative awards. They will be co-supervised by s...

The BSHS is very pleased to announce a competition for up to 4 bursaries of £4,000 each to support students taking a master’s degree in the history of science, technology or medicine. This round of awards will be available to those who have been accepted on a master’s programme for the academic year 2015-16. •       Applicants must have a confirmed place on a master's programme in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. •       Those studying for research-based master's degrees are eligible to apply, but not PhD students nominally registered for MPhil (or similar) provisionally pending upgrade to PhD registration. •       There is no nationality requirement for applicants. There is no age limit. •       Non-members of the Society are welcome to apply. Applications should be made using the form provided on our website and should include a financial statement indic...

The School of History at St Andrews is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher within the AHRC-funded ‘Publishing the Philosophical Transactions’ Project. You will have responsibility for that part of the project dealing with the social, cultural and economic history of the journal from c.1950 to 2015. The successful candidate is likely to have experience working within the field of history of science and/or the history of publishing, and to have prior experience of working with archival materials and oral history. There are no teaching duties attached to this post. Further information on the University and the School of History can be found at the University website ( www.st-andrews.ac.uk ).   To discuss this post informally candidates may contact the director of the project, Dr Aileen Fyfe ( akf@st-andrews.ac.uk ). This post is to cover a period of maternity leave and is for 10 months in the first instance. The post-holder will be employed by St Andrews...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Telecommunications History University of Leeds, Faculty of Arts , School of Philosophy, Religion & History of Science Grade 7 Salary: £31,342 to £37,394 per annum Fixed term for 12 months, beginning 1 September 2015, or as soon as possible thereafter Closing Date: Wednesday 17 June 2015 Reference:   ARTPR1016 This Fellowship explores how far telecommunications expertise and technologies developed during the First World War facilitated  post-war developments such as radio broadcasting, commercial radio communications, wireless telephony and aircraft communications. The role is multi-national in scope, taking further the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded ‘Innovating in Combat’ project and will be affiliated to the University of Leeds project ‘Legacies of War’ http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/legaciesofwar/ The Fellowship is supported by a generous personal donation from Mr Keith Thrower, wi...