Dr Richard Noakes
Biography
I was born in Lewisham, South East London, and was educated in neighbouring Forest Hill. In 1989, after a secondary education in Eltham Green and Crown Woods comprehensive schools, I was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from which I graduated with a first-class B.A. (Hons.) in History and Philosophy of Science (1992) and a PhD in (1998). My doctoral dissertation, supervised by Professor Simon Schaffer, examined the intimate relationship between science, technology and spiritualism in Victorian Britain. In 1999 was appointed Postdoctoral Research Fellow on 'Science in the Nineteenth Century Project', a major AHRC and Leverhulme Trust-funded project that was both interdisciplinary (History of Science and English Literature) and inter-institutional (the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield). In 2002 I was awarded the prestigious 5-year British Academy-Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the History of Science and in August 2007 I took up my present position as Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus.
