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Alexandra Rose

  • Email: pralr@leeds.ac.uk
  • Thesis title: Tools of seismology: Instruments and infrastructures in the making of a global science, 1880-1965
  • Supervisor: Graeme Gooday

Profile

I am a part-time PhD student studying the history of seismology in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My thesis will explore the interplay between so-called 'pure' and practical agendas in the forging of seismology as a scientific discipline. I am particularly interested in the various roles seismological instruments play in this process. 

When not working on my PhD, I am Curator of Earth Sciences at the Science Museum in London, with responsibility for collections relating to meteorology, geophysics, oceanography and surveying. I am also currently curating a gallery on early modern science in London, to open late 2019.

 

Research interests

  • History of science, especially earth sciences

  • Scientific instruments

  • Museums, collection and display

  • Communication of climate change

Qualifications

  • MSc Science Communication, Imperial College
  • MA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

Research groups and institutes

  • History and Philosophy of Science