Alex Hall
Colleges, School and Institutes
Biography
Dr Alexander Hall is a historian of science and environmental historian who researches the history of science in popular media; exploring how scientists have gained positions of expertise in society, used the media to communicate complex theories to the public, and how non-scientific understandings of the natural environment have interacted with scientific knowledge. He is a Research Fellow on the large multidisciplinary project ‘Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum’ based at the University of Birmingham.
Research interests
I have a broad range of research interests, including, but not limited to:
- the history of science on television and radio
- history of science communication
- cultural and societal understandings of meteorology, weather and climate
- histories of the environmental sciences and environmental policy
- environmental histories of flooding and landscape
Willingness to take PhD students
Yes
PhD projects
Twentieth-century histories and media studies on:
Science communication and popular science
Belief and/or trust in science
Science on television and radio
The development of the environmental sciences
Weather, climate and natural disasters
In particular I am interested in taking on postgraduate students who are interested in digital and mixed methodological approaches, and research that straddles the humanities/science divide.
Keywords
- D839 Post-war History, 1945 on - history of science, environmental history, public understanding of science, media history, history of meteorology