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Rebecca Wright

@rebkwright

Senior Lecturer in American History, Northumbria Uni // interested in histories of energy and health, the energy humanities and all things energy related.

 London, England
northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/w/rebecca-wright/
Joined September 2016
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Great job opportunity - please share widely: two-year post on the project 'Global Governance, Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present'! work4.northumbria.ac.uk/#en/…
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We are currently advertising for a Research Fellow post on Dr Rebecca Wright's @wellcometrust-funded project, ‘Carbon Bodies: Warmth and Fuelling Health in Britain, 1918 to 2022’. 36 month post from October 2024, full-time, £39,347 to £44,262. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIR074/resear…
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We're putting together a new committee for an #EHW2021 #envhist tweeters, would you like to join in? 👇 environmentalhistoryworkshop…
EHW 2021: Call for organizers!

EHW 2021: Call for organizers!

We’re looking for a new committee to organize an environmental history workshop in 2021. If you think you might be interested in hosting the workshop, please get in touch! Environmental History Wor…

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EHW 2021: Call for organizers! environmentalhistoryworkshop… We have been hearing from #envhist friends that an Environmental History Workshop in 2021 would be fun. We agree! DM or email to discuss joining the 2021 organizing committee 😃
EHW 2021: Call for organizers!

EHW 2021: Call for organizers!

We’re looking for a new committee to organize an environmental history workshop in 2021. If you think you might be interested in hosting the workshop, please get in touch! Environmental History Wor…

environmentalhistoryworkshop.wordpress.com
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Academic jobs! We're recruiting in the field of BAME History (focus on BAME communities in Britain and/or Continental Europe). Details via northumbria.ac.uk/work-for-u… (Associate Professor/Professor) and northumbria.ac.uk/work-for-u… (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer).
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MCE@MatCultEnergy7 May 2019
Please see here a new publication from @MatCultEnergy team members. With thanks for the wonderful contributions and RCC Perspectives editorial team, and support of @CarsonCenter & @DeutschesMuseum
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New issue of RCC Perspectives now online! Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a #Sustainable Future, edited by Vanessa Taylor & Heather Chappells bit.ly/2Vi4p78 #fossilfuels #renewables #energyregimes #envhum #envhist #ecovillage #envtech
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Still riding that #ASEH2019 high? Seize the moment and submit an abstract for Flows - the Second Environmental History Workshop @NorthumbriaHist in September. Deadline 18 April 🍃🌊🌇
Environmental History Workshop (@envhistworkshop) profile pictureEnvironmental History Workshop@envhistworkshop18 Mar 2019
Brexit is delayed and @envhistworkshop is extending the deadline for the 2019 workshop on "flows" for a month! Keep on sending us abstracts for the workshop on 13 September @NorthumbriaUni. CFP open until 18 April. environmentalhistoryworkshop…
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Brexit is delayed and @envhistworkshop is extending the deadline for the 2019 workshop on "flows" for a month! Keep on sending us abstracts for the workshop on 13 September @NorthumbriaUni. CFP open until 18 April. environmentalhistoryworkshop…
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JOB: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in US History (permanent) @NorthumbriaHist. Applications particularly welcome from scholars working on the period 1877-1945. Deadline March 15! jobs.ac.uk/job/BQB267/senior…
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Tonight - via some professorial lecture goodness and after party - we celebrated Caroline Bassett, our fearless @SussexHumsLab leader. Key finding: humans dreamed of flying, we got Ryanair (or a line told much better than that..)
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MCE@MatCultEnergy9 Nov 2017
MCE event: Energy Transitions-Lessons of Past for Future, Science Museum 30.11.17 6pm. Only few places left Book at [email protected] /bit.ly/2hhd5Em
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Everyone is talking about it.. Electricity, aka the 'Wizard in the Wall'. A 1940s advert by the Electrical Development Association
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Reflections on @CarsonCenter workshop incl. @ParrinelloG, @michelle_a_mart& @rebkwright! #envhist #foodhist #histSTM thehistorianinthegarden.com/…
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MCE@MatCultEnergy13 Apr 2017
Pull up to the bumper: gas stations across America – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Rebecca Wright & Colin Pooley on #policy legacy designing #futures #HCI #rebkwright @MatCultEnergy bit.ly/2njS5y2
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MCE@MatCultEnergy27 Sep 2016
First shipment of fracked shale gas set to arrive in UK theguardian.com/business/201…
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Unearthed@UE23 Sep 2016
The reason London is smoggier than New York: Diesel bit.ly/2cJjS8A
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#OTD 1882 - Thomas Edison opens the first commercial power plant in New York bit.ly/2bQwpVF #HistSci
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