2 PhD doctoral positions "Nuclear Energy History" (KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm)

2 PhD doctoral positions "Nuclear Energy History" (KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm)

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Stockholm
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Sweden
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01.09.2018 -
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10.05.2018
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Per Högselius

The Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, is starting up a new, ambitious research project, targeting the history of nuclear energy in global and transnational perspective. The project is led by Per Högselius and is funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Its focus is on controversies over nuclear energy in relation water. Water supplies for cooling nuclear reactors are at the very heart of nuclear (un)safety and the project here merges perspectives from the history of science and technology with environmental history and water history.
We are now looking for two PhD students to participate in this project. One of the PhD students will be expected to study historical controversies over nuclear cooling arrangements in international perspective and the focus is here mainly on English-language documentary sources.
The other PhD student will be expected to study the development in a specific geographical region: the highly nuclearized Rhine Valley. The focus here will be on the debate about nuclear cooling arrangements, nuclear flooding risks and wet radioactive pollution. A large part of the source material in this PhD project will be in German language and ideally also in other languages that are spoken in the Rhine Valley.
The two PhD positions cover a period of study amounting to 4 years on a full-time basis. The PhD students will be employed at the Division of History at KTH, which means that they will receive a competitive salary throughout the period of study. As the project is genuinely interdisciplinary in scope, we welcome applicants from engineering and natural sciences as well as from the social sciences and humanities fields.
Deadline for application is 10 May. See further https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:202195/where:4/

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