CHM PhD student Katey Logan has won the 2017 Burnby Memorial Bursary. It is awarded annually by the British Society for the History of Pharmacy for original research in this field.

In addition to the £500 prize money, Katey is to present a short paper at the Society’s 50th Anniversary conference in April this year. Her presentation, “Hearing the voices of Boots pharmacists: an investigation of identity 1930-2000”, will draw on her nascent research into Boots the Chemists pharmacists - their unique identity as corporate community pharmacists, working within and outwith the NHS.

http://www.bshs.org.uk/bshp-50th-anniversary-conference

The deadline for Warwick History of Medicine MA applications for applicants requiring funding has been brought forward to 18th January, to bring it in line with the wider History Dept's funding deadlines. Please see further details here. Applicants who are not put forward for the Wellcome Trust MA grant will therefore have a chance of alternative funding.

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a Public Engagement Officer on the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project, ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850–2000‘, led by Principal Investigators Professor Hilary Marland (CHM, University of Warwick) and Dr Catherine Cox (UCD CHOMI).

This post will be based at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick. It is a 24 month, part-time (40% FTE) position commencing as soon as possible after 9 January 2017.

Applications close 1 December 2016.

For further details and to apply see: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AVG898/public-engagement-officer-78714-106

or here (University of Warwick HR site)