Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
Coreen McGuire
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Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...
Emily Herring
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C.
Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians
The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards.
For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship.
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Come teach with me!
0.5 FTE for 2 years to start with
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims – but for some it seemed an opportunity.
Read this article co-authored by @coreenanne.bsky.social, assistant professor in the Dept of History @durham.ac.uk & published in @aeon.co.
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New guidance published by @advancehe.bsky.social today, relating to the Disabled Student Commitment, this time on effective information sharing for disabled students in #UKHE. Pleased that @universityofleeds.bsky.social features as a case study! advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hu...
Oh yay, the new Bulletin of the History of Medicine is out! It features my positioning paper on objects and materiality in the history of medicine. After years, it is finally out!
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I guess she was using an academic marking scale.
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims. Coreen McGuire’s co-authored article in Aeon explores how, during the interwar years, some viewed it as an opportunity.
This guide, produced by the Disabled Student Commitment Information Sharing Special Interest Group, examines how HEPs manage and share disability-related information, drawing on survey data, sector ca...
We're down to the last handful of tickets for my workshop on 'Medicine and the Senses' in Leeds on 10 July. Please share!
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Really interesting CFP about history and philosophy of measurement in the social and human sciences. Cannot do it justice in several hundred characters!
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈
Claire L Jones
Andrew McRae
We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lecturer in Philosophy of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/3Q7do8w
Closing date 21-Jun-2026.
#WeAreSTS #Science #Philosophyofscience
We invite proposals from researchers in the philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of measurement for a new edited collection. Deadline 15 June 2026.
