New SATSU Member - Dr Sam Robinson

Sam joins Amanda Rees' project 'Unsettling Scientific Stories' which is a three year project running from York, but with co-centre's in Aberystwyth and Newcastle

Sam completed his PhD, ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Ocean Science and the British Cold War State’ in 2015 at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. This work, part of the ERC-funded The Earth Under Surveillance (TEUS) project, examined the development of British oceanography during and after the Second World War. George Deacon, director of the newly-established National Institute of Oceanography, was a key figure. Sam's thesis revealed tensions between government administrators and navy officials sponsoring a novel oceanographic research programme, and traced the implications of the programme for undersea surveillance, especially in connection with anti-submarine warfare.

For more information: www.unsettlingscientificstories.co.ukThe project is funded by the AHRC.

Amanda Rees awarded AHRC funding

Amanda Rees has just been awarded AHRC funding for 'Unsettling Science: expertise, narrative and future histories'. In collaboration with researchers at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Newcastle, this 3 year project will investigate the relationships between science, fiction and popular culture over the course of the long technological 20th century (1887-2007), focusing on the ways in which innovations in science, technology and medicine were used by writers, policy-makers and the general public to anticipate and think about the future.