Aileen Fyfe is a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

Academia

Fyfe formerly lectured on the history of science and technology, typically nineteenth-century, at

NUI Galway The University of Galway ( ga, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) is a public research university located in the city of Galway, Ireland. A tertiary education and research institution, the university was awarded the full five QS stars for excellence in 201 ...

, . Since 2011 she has been based at the

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and is Director of Research for the School of History. Her research there is focused on the circulation and consumption of knowledge from the late seventeenth century onwards. Fyfe is a member of the Council of the

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(USA). From 2002 to 2007 she was Treasurer of the

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, and she was the Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's subcommittee on the History of Science until 2010. From 2013-2017 she led an AHRC on Philosophical Transactions, the journal of the

Royal Society of London The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

. She was the lead author of the 2017 briefing paper ''Untangling Academic Publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research'' which culminated from this research. Since Spring 2021 she has been coordinating the 'Women Historians of St Andrews' project, which aims to seek out the experiences of women who studied, researched and taught History at St Andrews.

Selected publications

* * * * *Fyfe, Aileen (2015), 'Journals, learned societies and money: ''Philosophical Transactions'' ca. 1750–1900', ''Notes and Records of the Royal Society'', vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 277-299. *Fyfe, Aileen; McDougall-Waters, Julie; Moxham, Noah (2018), 'Credit, copyright, and the circulation of scientific knowledge: the Royal Society in the long nineteenth century', ''Victorian Periodicals Review'', vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 597-615. *Fyfe, Aileen; Squazzoni, Flaminio; Torny, Didier; Dondio, Pierpaolo (2020), 'Managing the growth of peer review at the Royal Society journals, 1865-1965', ''Science, Technology, and Human Values'', vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 405-429. *Fyfe, Aileen; Gielas, Anna Maria (2020), 'Introduction: Editorship and the editing of scientific journals, 1750-1950', ''Centaurus'', vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 5-20.

Awards and honours

Fyfe was awarded the 2013 Edelstein Prize, recognizing ''Steam-Powered Knowledge'' as best book on the history of technology. She was elected to the

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

in 2022.

References

External links

* " John Dalton"
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'' In Our Time'',

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. Aileen Fyfe on the panel with Jim Bennett and James Sumner. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fyfe, Aileen Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of the University of Galway Academics of the University of St Andrews British women historians Historians of science Historians of technology 21st-century British historians 21st-century British women writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh