Departments and Centres

This page lists the departments, divisions, centres and units in the United Kingdom and Ireland whose research and teaching focuses largely or wholly on the histories and cultures of science, technology and medicine or cognate areas.  This listing is intended only to indicate institutional concentrations: many potential researchers and students will find relevant possibilities in institutions where work in the field is integrated with work in other discipline areas.  For a broader picture of the discipline overall, please refer to the full directory. 

Reflecting the typical organisational bases of relevant groups in the British Isles, the listing has been divided loosely into three areas:

• History of science, integrated HSTM and HPS
• Science studies, STS, sociology of science
• History of medicine, medical ethics, medicine and the public

• Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM), Imperial College London
• Centre for the History and Cultural Studies of Science, University of Kent
• Division of the History and Philosophy of Science, School of Philosophy, University of Leeds
• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester
• Department of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Open University
• Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford

• Science Studies Centre, University of Bath
• Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh
• Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University
• Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

• Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham
• Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, University of Durham
• Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
• Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester
• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
• Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present, Oxford Brookes University
• Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
• Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick