Professor Joe Cain supervises doctoral students via UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) for the MPhil-PhD programme. This page lists current students, plus those he supervised in the past.
Applications for new students are welcome. Please discuss proposals well in advance of submitting an application. Professor Joe Cain’s supervisory range covers history of the life sciences and history of biology from Enlightenment to the present, science policy as it relates to life sciences, science communication and public engagement as it relates to life sciences. History of palaeontology, history of evolutionary biology, history of eugenics, and history of Darwinism are topics of special interest. The preference is to focus on Anglophone topics only.
Current Research Students
student | status | supervision type | more |
Ranford, Paul | part-time | secondary | link |
Completed Research Students
Research Student | Date completed | Link | Thesis | Comments |
Xiaoyu Liu | 2024 | Liu | Field Work and Changes in Geology in Early 20th Century Britain | pending |
Nathan K. C. Bossoh | 2022 | Bossoh | Science, Empire, and Polymathy in Victorian Society: George Douglas Campbell, The 8th Duke of Argyll | Open access |
John van Laun | 2021 | VanLaun | British Railway Topography and Politics in John Cooke Bourne’s (1839) Drawings of the London and Birmingham Railway | MPhil open access |
Rebecca Martin | 2020 | Martin | Normalising whiteness: the use of standardised anatomical models in British university teaching, 1860-1910 | Open access |
Farrah Lawrence-Mackey | 2019 | Lawrence-Mackey | Medical Appropriation in the ‘Red’ Atlantic: Translating a Mi’kmaq smallpox cure in the mid-nineteenth century | Open access |
Elizabeth Dobson Jones | 2017 | Jones | Jones, ED; (2017) The Search for Ancient DNA in the Media Limelight: A Case of Celebrity Science. | Elizabeth Jones (2022) Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300240122. |
Jennifer Wilson | 2017 | Wilson | Wilson, JM; (2017) Crystallographer and Campaigner: The life and work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971). | Open access |
Yin Chung Au | 2016 | Au | Au, YC; (2016) Synthesising heterogeneity: trends of visuality in biological sciences circa 1970s - 2000s. | Open access |
Hsiang-Fu Huang | 2015 | Huang | Huang, H-F; (2015) Commercial and Sublime: Popular Astronomy Lectures in Nineteenth Century Britain. | Open access |
David Teira Serrano | 2011 | Teira | Teira Serrano, D; (2011) Impartiality in clinical trials. | Not available in digital; order via library. |
Norberto Serpente | 2011 | Serpente | Serpente, NR; (2011) Cells from icons to symbols molecularising cell biology in the 1980s. | Open access |
Christine Aicardi | 2010 | Aicardi | Aicardi, C.; (2010) Harnessing non-modernity: a case study in artificial life. | Open access |
Allan Jones | 2010 | Jones | Jones, A.C.; (2010) Speaking of science: BBC science broadcasting and its critics, 1923–64. | Open access |
Louise Jarvis | 2009 | Jarvis | Jarvis, L.H.M.; (2008) Towards an anatomy of protracted scientific controversy: perpetuated negotiation in the 'directed mutation' debate. | Open access |
Jennifer Marie | 2004 | Marie | Marie, J.; (2004) The Importance of Place: A History of Genetics in 1930s Britain. | Not available in digital; order via library. |
Leigh Bregman | 2003 | Bregman | Bregman, L.D.; (2004) "Snug little coteries": A history of scientific societies in early nineteenth century Cape Town, 1824-1835. | Open access |
John Waller | 2001 | Waller | Waller, J.; (2001) The Social and Intellectual Origins of Sir Francis Galton’s (1822-1911) Ideas on Heredity and Eugenics. | Not available in digital; order via library. |