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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>*****Apologies for cross posting******<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>An AHRC-funded
Collaborative PhD Award with the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and the
Science Museum/BT Archives<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>'Research is the Door
to Tomorrow': The Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, c.1935-1970 </span></font></b><font
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>** Re-advertisement:
closing date 20 June 2014 **<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Have you completed or are you close
to completing a Master’s degree in History of Science and Technology,
Modern History or a related field? Are you interested in twentieth century
history and the role that technological R&D played in it? Do you enjoy investigating
the personal stories and histories behind major developments? Would you relish
the opportunity to work within a national museum? Then this could be the project
for you! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Applications are invited for an
AHRC-funded PhD studentship on the mid-twentieth century history of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>’s Post Office Research Station at
Dollis Hill, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place>.
The studentship will commence in September 2014, and is tenable for three
years’ full-time study.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>Owned and managed by the General Post Office, the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
largest state bureaucracy in the twentieth century, Dollis Hill was one of the
government’s most important research establishments in electrical
engineering, telecommunications and computing. By the late 1930s, it had
an international reputation in an extensive network of telecommunications
research, testing and manufacturing facilities encompassing other state civil
and military establishments, research associations and industry. With
privileged access to the rich collections of the Science Museum and BT Archives
this project will explore the institution’s organisational development,
its technical work and its changing relationship with the state and other
institutions from the mid-1930s through WW2, the post-war years and the Cold
War up to the 1960s.It will also consider the social history of the station,
exploring the hierarchies within the organisation, informal and formal methods
for building and sharing knowledge and the day-to-day experiences of life at
Dollis Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>There is significant scope for the
student undertaking this project to develop their own thematic and empirical
interests, but among the relevant topics that might be covered are: the
mobilisation of Dollis Hill for war work on radio and electronic computers for
codebreaking during WW2; the development of submarine cable and repeater
technology, culminating in the transatlantic submarine telephone cable in 1956;
the development of microwave radio relay transmitters and the
establishment’s work on the Goonhilly satellite ground station; and the
beginnings of fibre optics. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Cutting across all these topics,
the project will analyse Dollis Hill as a deep reservoir of skilled practice:
its labs and workshops maintained huge expertise on materials and production
processes – initially valves and crystals, later semiconductors and transistors.
It will also explore the ways in which Dollis Hill was central to the British state’s
role as a provider of communications infrastructure both for public use, for governmental
and national security purposes and as international interests came into play. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>The rich sources for the project
include the BT Archives with their extensive Post Office records, the
telecommunications collections of the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Science</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> and the National Archives at <st1:place
w:st="on">Kew</st1:place>. There is also significant scope for oral history
work with former Dollis Hill employees.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>This
PhD studentship will be held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>’s
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, which is internationally
recognised for its work on the history of modern and contemporary science,
technology and medicine (see <a href="http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/">http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/</a>).
It will cover university fees at UK/EU rates, and provide a living allowance
subject to the AHRC’s residency requirements. The supervisors are Dr Jeff
Hughes (CHSTM, <st1:City w:st="on">Manchester</st1:City>) and Dr Tilly Blyth (<st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Science</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place>). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>The
studentship is the second of three linked PhDs mapping Post Office research in
the twentieth century under the overall title ‘“Research is the
door to tomorrow”: the networks and culture of the Post Office Research
Stations, Dollis Hill and Martlesham, c. 1910-1983’. The first (on early
20th century Post Office research, based at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Leeds</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)
commenced in September 2013. This, and the third (on Dollis Hill’s
later career and that of its successor institution, Martlesham Heath, based at
UCL) will commence in September 2014. The project is supported by the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Science</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>’s Collaborative Doctoral
Partnership scheme, in conjunction with BT Archives.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=black
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Candidates
should have a strong Master’s degree in History of Science, Technology
and Medicine, Science Studies or a related subject. Application is by sending
1) a CV 2) a sample of writing and 3) a covering letter outlining reasons
for application to <a href="mailto:jeff.hughes@manchester.ac.uk">jeff.hughes@manchester.ac.uk</a>
by 20 June 2014. </span></font><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Potential applicants may contact
Dr Jeff Hughes (<a href="mailto:jeff.hughes@manchester.ac.uk">jeff.hughes@manchester.ac.uk</a>)
for further information and informal discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dr Tilly Blyth</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Keeper of Technologies and Engineering</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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