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5 Jul 2024: From 2016 to 2019 Tim was an investigator on a large, multi-institution project 'Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test', funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student prizes. Willmoth Prize. The Frances Willmoth Prize is awarded each year for the best performance in the dissertation component of the History and Philosophy of Science Part II

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984. 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2019. Men who have sex with men currently experience a disproportionately high prevalence of sexually

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. MPhil students' guide. MPhil students' guide. These pages contain information and advice for current students on the MPhil course in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. For

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Casebooks Project. A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596–1634. The Casebooks Project aims to make available the astrological records of

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable 2023–24. Timetable. Timetable by course. Timetable by term. Where do the lectures take place? The venue is shown on the page for each course. Links. Related pages. Department

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine. History of Medicine. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science is a major centre for research, teaching and public engagement in history of medicine. The

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Plagiarism and academic misconduct. Plagiarism is defined as the unacknowledged use of the work of others as if this were your own original work. A student may be found guilty of an act

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Colonial Natures. Colonial Natures. Principal Investigator: Daniel Margocsy. Colonial Natures examines the complex historical relationship between two crucial phenomena that shape

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Directors of Studies. College. Director of Studies for HPS. Christ's College. Churchill College. Clare College. Corpus Christi College. Downing College. Emmanuel College. Fitzwilliam

5 Jul 2024: As holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2021–4, I am researching and writing The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby: Proof and Publicity in Claims to a ... Franklin and Matthew Cottingham, Human Reproduction 25 (2010): 2157–2174.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD students' guide. PhD students' guide. These pages contain information and advice for current PhD students in the Department. For information about applying to become a PhD student

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jim Secord. Emeritus Professor. Director, Darwin Correspondence Project. Research interests: Social history of science since 1750; life and earth sciences; history of science communication

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research guide. Research topics and readings in history and philosophy of science. Writing philosophy – Peter Lipton. How to organise a history essay or dissertation – Sachiko Kusukawa

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Salim Al-Gailani. University Assistant Professor. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800, especially obstetrics, midwifery and childbirth; public health

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB students' guide. Part IB students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part IB course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction to

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard A. McKay. Affiliated Scholar. External College Lecturer and Director of Studies for HPS at Magdalene College. Research interests: Twentieth century history of medicine and public

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Referencing. When writing essays and dissertations, correct and consistent referencing is an important way to avoid accusations of plagiarism and ensure that people reading your work can

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Jones. College Fellow. Research interests: Medieval medicine and science; image-making in medicine; medical books and the circulation of medical information. Peter Murray Jones is a

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II students' guide. Part II students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part II course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction to

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. John Forrester. John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, died on 24 November 2015. Obituary: Professor John Forrester (1949–2015). Freud in

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II timetable. Part II. Course manager: Dániel Margócsy. are held in the first half of Michaelmas Term. Research methods seminars are held in Michaelmas Term. Writing support

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marta Halina. University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I am a University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I received my PhD in

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS Part II timetable. BBS Part II. Options for students taking the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) course in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Part II students' guide: BBS

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Charu Singh. University Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences. I am an Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences Before 1900. Trained as a historian

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Complaints. Difficulties can usually be resolved informally. Students who have a complaint about supervision or any other aspect of teaching should do the following:. Speak to your

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga. Professor of Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga is a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part III students' guide. Part III students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part III course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Schaffer. Professor of History of Science. Simon Schaffer was trained in natural sciences and history & philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examiners' reports. Introduction to examiners' reports. Please note that all undergraduate submitted work and examination scripts are marked anonymously; in fact all HPS examinations are

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton died suddenly of natural causes on the evening of Sunday 25 November 2007. His funeral was held on 28 November 2007, and a memorial service was held

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice. Advice. In this section:. Some basic strategies to help demystify the process of writing. Answering an exam question – what to do and what to avoid. Learning strategies and exam

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Matt Farr. Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy of Physics. Matt Farr is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department. Before joining the University of Cambridge, Matt was a

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student representation. Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Committee is a forum for discussion of matters directly affecting students. The Department finds that obtaining feedback from

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jia Yu. PhD student. College: Lucy Cavendish. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton, Jim Secord (advisor). Thesis topic: Early twentieth century periodicals and natural histories in modern China.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Helen Anne Curry. Honorary Senior Research Fellow. I’m the Kranzberg Professor in the History of Technology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. I research and teach

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philippa Carter. University Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and Health before 1800. Philippa Carter is a historian of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world (c.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Daniel Ott. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Thesis topic: Nosology of chronic pain: technological innovation catalyzing novel disease categorization.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Niall Roe. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Pragmatism and the growth of concepts. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seb Falk. College Fellow. Fellow, Girton College. Email: sldf2@cam.ac.uk. Research interests: History of astronomy, late medieval sciences, scientific instruments and history of the book

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hitesh Pant. PhD student. College: Selwyn. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Historical perspectives on crop diversity and food security. Department of History and Philosophy of

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Mary Augusta Brazelton. University Associate Professor in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine. My research interests lie broadly in historical intersections of science,

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Edwin Rose. AHRC Early Career Research Fellow. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History. Edwin Rose is currently Principal Investigator on the

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Angela V. Gui. PhD student. College: Corpus Christi. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood. Contact me: vag27@cam.ac.uk. My research focuses on lung disease epidemics in twentieth

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nick Jardine. Emeritus Professor. Research interests: Historiography of the sciences; early-modern cosmology; history of natural history; philosophy of the sciences. Nick Jardine was the

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Amelia Urry. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Co-supervisor: Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Centre, Cambridge). Thesis topic: Sensing oceans, mapping ice: a

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Harry Law. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Thesis topic: Bell Labs and the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Matt Syd Rosen. PhD student. College: Pembroke. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Celebrity science and the cybernetic vanguard. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Patricia Fara. Emeritus Fellow, Clare College. Research interests. Eighteenth-century natural philosophy; cultural history of science. Selected publications. Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science

5 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. L. Joanne Green. PhD student. College: Girton. Supervisor: Jim Secord, advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis topic: The British entomological community, 1870–1920: gender, empire, networks.