Fashionable Diseases

Research Associate « Fashionable Diseases »

Newcastle University -School of History, Classics & Archaeology

Closing Date: 18 February 2013

Salary: Up to £29,541, rising to £36,298 per annum

Having been awarded a prestigious three-year Project Grant from the Leverhulme Trust for ‘Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832’ held jointly with the University of Northumbria, we seek to appoint a Research Associate to work on the subject of sufferer perspectives of fashionable diseases.

You will work principally 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 (the PI, Dr Clark Lawlor, Professor Allan Ingram and Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson), and the Researcher at the University of Northumbria (who will be directed by Dr Lawlor). You will be expected to Research and publish on the subject of fashionable diseases, and to take responsibility for aspects of the organisation of workshops, public engagement activities and an international conference. You will also be expected to use a range of web and social media skills and to take a key role in the dissemination of the project activities. It is expected that the you will have a track record as a researcher in the field of ‘long’ eighteenth-century studies and the history of medicine, and preferably some research experience analysing patient and/or other first person narrative sources.

You will need to be able to demonstrate a high level of academic writing skills, and sophisticated research and analytical skills (a published sample of written work should be submitted with the application). Substantial experience of historical research is essential; experience of inter-disciplinary research would be preferable. A high level of communication and organisational skills, is required. The ability to work to deadlines, to adhere to line-manager instructions and to take appropriate initiative when required is essential. Time-management and team-working skills are also essential. Some familiarity with public engagement activities and webmanagement/ design would be preferable. Word-processing and transcribing skills, while familiarity with database construction and management, especially

MS Access, would be preferable.

Enquiries about this post can be made to Dr Jonathan Andrews via email: jonathan.andrews@ncl.ac.uk; or else by telephone: 0191 222 5756.


This post is fixed-term for up to 3 years, commencing 1 April 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter.