The research project “INVISIBLE SCIENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPAIN”
seeks potential candidates for 2 Doctoral fellowships for a 4 year period
(2021-2024). The project is a joint venture between the Institut
Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) at the Universitat de València,
and the recently created Institut d’Història de la Ciència (IHC) –
former CEHIC-, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The project is
financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación until 2024.

At the IILP, the selected candidate will work under the supervision of
Professor José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez on a specific topic related to the
subproject 1, which is entitled: INVISIBLE TOXICS: CHEMISTRY, AGRICULTURE
AND PUBLIC HEALTH (1940-1990). The subproject deals with the
invisibilization of toxic risks in twentieth-century Spain in different
contexts: agriculture (pesticides), public health (fumigations), mining
(lead mines) and pharmacy (opioids, sulphones). Adopting a “biographical
approach” to toxic products, the members of the project aim to integrate
different scientific, legal, political, economic and medical realms related
to the production and use of toxic products and the (in)/visibilization of
the risks. The different cases are connected by similar sources (mainly
Spanish), historical actors, and regulatory frameworks.

At the IHC (former CEHIC), the selected candidate will work under the
supervision of Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan on a specific topic related to
the subproject 2, which is entitled: INVISIBLE KNOWLEDGE: THE POLITICS OF
CENSORSHIP, AND SCIENCE POPULARIZATION (1940-1990). The subproject deals
with several mechanisms that made science (and knowledge, in a broad sense)
invisible along the 20th century in Spain. It pays particular attention to
censorship in scientific books, periodicals, and the daily press during
General Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975). Equally, it approaches several
cases of science popularization, in dictatorship and democracy, which
served particular interests, promoted specific domains of scientific
knowledge and deliberately made others invisible to the general public.

Selected candidates must be officially enrolled in the History of Science
Doctorate programme, either at the IILP or the IHC. They will earn an
annual gross salary around 16.250€ in the first 2 years; 17.410€ in the
third year; and 21.760€ in the fourth year. Under certain requirements,
candidates can apply for a 6-12 months funded postdoctoral extra period.

Further details of the application procedure, which will be open from 13 to
23 October (14:00 hrs ECT), can be found at the website of the Ministerio
de Ciencia e Inovación ,

For more details on the research projects, as well as for help on the
application procedure (if necessary), please contact Professors
Bertomeu-Sánchez [Jose.R.Bertomeu@uv.es], and/or
Nieto-Galan [agusti.nieto@uab.cat].