Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
King's College London

Since 1993 at least 30 PhD students have graduated from the Centre, about half of whom have academic jobs. Some of these are listed below. Other students have progressed to careers in research, in museums, in consultancy. We offer ongoing support to our students even after their graduation by writing references, reading drafts of written work, and helping them to win research funds and perform well at interviews. 

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CHOSTM graduates in permanent academic positions include:
 

• Sabine Clarke, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, York

• Rosemary Cresswell, Senior Lecturer in Global History, Hull

• Larry Ferreiro, professor of systems engineering and science and technology management at the Defense Acquisition University at Fort Belvoir VA

• Miguel Garcia-Sancho, Chancellors Fellow, Science Technology and Innovation, University of Edinburgh

• Hermione Giffard, Managing Editor of Technology and Culture, Eindhoven University

• Rebekah Higgitt, Lecturer in History of Science, Kent

• Shang-Jen Li, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Department of Social Medicine, National Taiwan University

• Yogesh Mishra, Assistant Professor, Nepal Engineering College

• Aparajith Ramnath, Assistant Professor Humanities and Liberal Arts at Ahmedabad University

• Jessica Reinisch, Professor of Modern History, Birkbeck

• Waqar Zaidi, Associate Professor History, LUMS, Lahore

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Our students have been very successful.  In 2014 alone, Hermione Giffard won the annual George Mosse Prize of the Journal of Contemporary History for her first article; Julie Hipperson won the Roy Porter Prize of the Society for the Social History of Medicine; Ben Taylor won the Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellowship and Esther Harper was awarded the Richard Cox Postgraduate Prize by the British Society for Sporting History. In 2016, Hermione Giffard won the BAC Wadsworth Prize in Business History while, in 2017, Tom Kelsey won the Society for the History of Technology Robinson Prize. 

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More recently, in 2018 Angelica Agredo Montealegre was awarded the Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship which is awarded annually by the Society for the History of Technology and in 2019, Helen Esfandiary was the recipient of the IHR Pollard Prize for her paper ‘We could not answer to ourselves not doing it’: Maternal Obligations and Knowledge of Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Elite Society.’