I’m writing to let you know of our AHRC-funded Collaborative Research Training programme on ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science and Medicine’ and to urge doctoral students to participate. Information can be found on our website: http://www.litscimed.org.uk/. The programme will comprise of a number of events over a period of two years. The programme is being led by the University of Salford, in collaboration with eleven other partners: the Universities of Keele, Leicester, Manchester, King’s College London, the London Consortium, the Science Museum, National Maritime Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the Wellcome Library. Students will be taught by experts with different approaches to disciplinary boundaries, and will be equipped with the skills needed to utilise manuscript sources, rare books, material objects, philosophy, literature, film and visual arts in their study of the connections between l...