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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards in Science Museum Group/ BT Archives Applications for students starting September 2013 are Now OPEN! Following an application by the Science Museum Research & Public History Department, a consortium of the Science Museum Group Museums along with BT Archives has been awarded 24 AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral studentships over the next three years. We are welcoming applications for the first 8 studentships due to start in September 2013. Please visit the Science Museum Research Pages for further details: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/new_research_folder/News%20and%20Events.aspx For general questions about Collaborative Doctoral Awards in the Science Museum Group/ BT Archives email research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk . Alison Hess Associate Curator of Research & Public History, Science Museum

Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship:  “Making germs real: creating, performing and learning about a dangerous invisible thing in the public sphere, c.1860-1930” Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD working on how germs were made real to different groups and individuals. During the late 19th century and early 20th centuries germs became entities to be widely feared and respected, even though very few people had ever seen them. This studentship is one of eight fully-funded awards made by the newly-established Collaborative Doctoral Partnership managed by the Science Museum Group. The project will be supervised by Dr Anna Maerker (King’s College London) and Robert Bud (Science Museum, London). The studentship, which is funded for three years full-time equivalent, will begin in September 2013. The Studentship The acceptance of the germ theory depended on more than the publication of experimental results in academic journals – germs were made real through images,

Spaces of industrial heritage: a history of uses, perceptions and remaking of the Liverpool Road Station site, Manchester Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship Application deadline: Friday 14 June Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD on the former Liverpool Road Station complex which forms the site of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. This studentship is one of eight fully-funded awards made by the newly-established Collaborative Doctoral Partnership managed by the Science Museum Group. The project will be supervised by Dr James Sumner (University of Manchester) and Jack Kirby (Museum of Science and Industry). The studentship, which is funded for three years full-time equivalent, will begin in September 2013. THE STUDENTSHIP The world's first passenger railway, connecting the manufacturing and trading hub of Manchester to Liverpool and the coast, opened in 1830. The original Manchester terminus building on Liverpool Road in

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 2 AHRC COLLABORATIVE PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL STUDIES OF BIOLOGY Two AHRC-funded PhD studentships are available from 1 October 2013 for collaborative research between the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, and the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB). Both studentships are connected with the project “Food Security in the Biotech Age: The National Institute of Agricultural Botany Since 1970.”   Founded in 1919 and based in Cambridge, NIAB has been at the forefront of seed testing and the development of crop-plant varieties in Britain for nearly a century.   (Its role in the development of a new variety of "superwheat" received major media coverage only last week; see, for the BBC's story, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22498274 ) A previous AHRC award funded PhD research, now nearing completion, on the history o

16-17 November 2013 Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Closing date for submissions: 14 June 2013 This meeting will explore the theme of altered consciousness in relation to popular culture, psychology, philosophy, religion, medicine and literature during the period 1918-1980. Many literary and popular authors and performers during the mid twentieth century represented altered states of consciousness in their work, responding to and participating in research relating to such topics as interplanetary contact, ESP, clairvoyance, telepathy, mind-altering drugs, psychic therapies, spiritualisms, shamanism, erotics, conversion, revivals, somnambulism, precognition, distraction, group mind, multiple personality, hypnotism, lucid dreaming, Vedanta, hysteria and automatism. What was the continuing legacy of nineteenth-century approaches to mind and spirit? How did work at the fringes of psychiatry and psychology intersect with mind sciences that consolidated