Postgraduate Funding for HSTM and Science Communication at University of Kent



The School of History at the University of Kent is pleased to announcement details of scholarships available for MA, MSc and PhD students (UK, EU and overseas), including in history of science, technology, medicine and environment and science communication.

Details of the various schemes are available online, along with details of staff working in these areas. The funding includes fully-funded Masters and PhD scholarships, one of which is attached to a PhD project to be supervised by Rebekah Higgitt on “Science, Government and Reputation: The Role of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the 20th Century”.

In addition there are two Masters scholarships of £2500 available only to students doing the MA in History of Science, Medicine, Environment & Technology or the MSc in Science, Communication & Society.




Dr Rebekah Higgitt | Lecturer in History of Science
School of History | Rutherford College (N4.E5) | University of Kent  | Canterbury | Kent KT2 7NX

Tel: 01227 826516

Richard Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt, Finding Longitude (Collins, 2014)
Rebekah Higgitt (ed), Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal (Hale, 2014)