History of Science, Technology and Medicine MSc
Overview
This innovative MSc programme aims to provide a comprehensive historical introduction to nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, technology and medicine in their wider social, economic, cultural and political contexts, including science communication and the relationship between science and the public. It also offers systematic training in historical approaches to a wide variety of scientific, technical and medical knowledge and practices. It is designed for students from a variety of disciplines. Currently we have students from arts, social science, natural sciences and engineering backgrounds on our programme. The programme is suitable for science graduates who have decided not to follow a career as a laboratory scientist, but who wish to stay in science and pursue other careers, and for humanities graduates interested in exploring the changing form and function of science, technology and medicine in societies past and present.
We offer five award routes depending on which optional course units you choose:
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Medical Humanities (intercalated MSc for medical students)
Medical Humanities (direct entry)
Science Communication
Research Methods in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
You will be taught by academic staff from the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) which is Britain's largest academic grouping which covers the histories of science, technology and medicine, and the inter-relations between the three connected areas of human activity.
The Centre is also home to a Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, funded by the Wellcome Trust, and to the National Archive for the History of Computing, a major research resource for information technology history and culture.
Your course directors are: Ian Burney and David Kirby
Careers
Our graduates have gone on to a variety of roles including PhD research, careers in museums, teaching, the media, science policy work and non-laboratory-based science.
For graduate profiles, see:
Melissa Smith (Policy Analyst)
Anthony Dellureficio (Systems Manager, New School University in New York)
Edwin Colyer (Independent Science Copywriter)
Val Harrington (Post-doctoral Fellow, CHSTM)
Jamie Stark (PhD Student)
Andy Hodges (PhD Student)