Dr Alex Aylward
Departmental Lecturer in History of Science
Faculty of History
I joined the History Faculty in October 2021 as Departmental Lecturer in the History of Science. Before this, I completed a PhD in the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, in which I explored the writing, publication, reception and legacies of R. A. Fisher’s celebrated book of 1930, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. In the course of my doctoral research I spent time as a visiting scholar at Charles University, Prague, and as Eugene Garfield Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Prior to joining Leeds, I received a BA (Natural Sciences) and MPhil (History and Philosophy of Science) from the University of Cambridge.
Research Interests
My research interests fall largely into the following areas:
- History of modern science, ca. 1800–present
- History of the life sciences, esp. evolutionary biology and genetics
- History of eugenics
- History of scientific publishing and reading
- Historiography of the history of science
You can follow me on twitter @aylwardam
