Two opportunities are currently being advertised in the Field of 19th Century Science Periodicals’ as part of the AHRC Science in Culture Large Grant Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries.

One post of ‘Research Associate in the Field of 19th Century Science Periodicals’ will be based at the University of Leicester, working with Dr Gowan Dawson and the Natural History Museum. The focus of this post will be on nineteenth-century natural history journals, but also with a wider remit across scientific journals of the period. More information about this opportunity is available here.

One post of ‘Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Nineteenth Century Science Periodicals’ will be based at the University of Oxford, working with Professor Sally Shuttleworth and at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons.The focus of this post will be on 19th-century medical journals, particularly in public health, but also with a wider remit across scientific journals of the period. More information about this opportunity is available here.

Both posts will form part of a larger team working on ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’, in conjunction with colleagues based at the University of Oxford, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Society and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons.