The Centre is pleased to announce its appointment of Laura King, currently studying her PhD at the University of Sheffield titled 'Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1918-1960, as the Strategic Award Postdoctoral Fellow commencing in October 2011. Laura will run a significant public engagement event in 2012 linked to her research and the Centre's Strategic Award. We are delighted that Laura will be joining the Centre community and very much look forward to working with her in the coming year.

The Centre for the History of Medicine (CHM) invites applications for a Research Fellow related to the CHM's Wellcome Trust Strategic Award, Situating Medicine: New Directions in the History of Medicine'. Applications are welcome from internal and external candidates with research expertise in the History of Medicine.

The Fellowship is intended for early career researchers who have no more than two year's postdoctoral research/teaching experience and who have not held a permanent academic post. You will have an excellent academic record and the potential to pursue your chosen research subject at the highest level.

You will be expected to conceptualise and conduct a public engagement project related to you own research interest and in line with the CHM's Wellcome Trust Strategic Award focus areas.

For further information please see the University job vacancy page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/jobsintro/research/

Application deadline: Monday 18 April 2011