Boyle’s father Richard was the most successful colonial adventurer in 16th /17th Century Ireland. Income from lands in Ireland help fund Boyle’s scientific programme. Boyle also had interests in certain colonial enterprises. In the succeeding centuries there has been an interrelationship between science and colonialism. It is timely to examine…
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born in Lurgan Co Down. She inadvertently discovered pulsars as a graduate student in radio astronomy in Cambridge, opening up a new branch of astrophysics – work recognised by the award of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. She has subsequently worked in many roles in…
In science, one is rarely alone, as it often involves teamwork and collaboration. Ideas and concepts are discussed with peers, as was the case for Robert Boyle and his sister in the 17th century. While it was socially acceptable for his sister to do charity work, it was not acceptable…
2021 Robert Boyle Summer School: Women in STEM – Past, Present & Future, online.
Michelle is the Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of early modern science and medicine, with particular interests in domestic science, medical remedies, and women practitioners.
Niall Moyna is a professor of clinical exercise physiology at DCU. Prof Moyna’s research is focused on exercise in the prevention of treatment of chronic disease and on the role of gene polymorphisms in helping to explain interindividual variability in biological responses to exercise.
Annraoi de Paor was born in Waterford in 1940. He became an internationally renowned expert in control theory and also pursued interests in biomedical engineering and renewable energy.
Dr Oliver Feeney is a researcher in political theory and bioethics with the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis, NUI Galway. His primary research is on the ethical, legal and social (justice) implications (ELSI) of biomedical technologies, esp. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and the ethics of human enhancement.
Dr Natalie Kaoukji is a historian of early modern science and medicine. Her research interests are broadly in the transformation of natural knowledge in the early modern period, with particular interests in the poetics of early modern technology and the prolongation of life.
The 8th Robert Boyle Summer School will take place from 20 – 23 June 2019 at Waterford City and Lismore and addresses the potentials and perils of SUPERHUMAN. The inspiration for the 2019 summer school was Boyle’s wonderful, prophetic (and now quirky) document from the 1660’s where he lists 24…