Newcastle University - Research Associate (3-year)

Under the direction of Dr Jonathan Andrews, the PI at Newcastle University, you will be required to liaise with the project team at Northumbria’s Humanities Department and expected to research and publish on the subject of fashionable diseases, and to organize workshops, public engagement activities and an international conference. The researcher must be familiar in the field of ‘long’ eighteenth-century studies and the history of medicine, and preferably some research experience analyzing patient and/or other first person narrative sources. Closes February 18, 2013. This post is fixed-term for up to 3 years, commencing 1 April 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. Inquiries about this post can be made to Dr Jonathan Andrews at jonathan.andrews@ncl.ac.uk.