Aileen Fyfe

Aileen Fyfe
NationalityBritish
Academic work
DisciplineHistory of science and technology
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
NUI Galway

Aileen Fyfe FRSE is a historian.

Academia

Fyfe formerly lectured on the history of science and technology, typically nineteenth-century, at NUI Galway, c. 2000s.[1] Since 2011 she has been based at the University of St Andrews 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.[2][3][4]

Fyfe is a member of the Council of the History of Science Society (USA). From 2002 to 2007 she was Treasurer of the British Society for the History of Science, and she was the Chair of the Royal Irish Academy's subcommittee on the History of Science until 2010.[2]

From 2013-2017 she led an AHRC on Philosophical Transactions, the journal of the Royal Society of London. 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.[5]

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.[6]

Selected publications

  • Fyfe, Aileen (2003), Science for Children, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, ISBN 9781843710219
  • Fyfe, Aileen (2004), Science and salvation: evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226276489
  • Fyfe, Aileen; Lightman, Bernard V (2007), Science in the marketplace: nineteenth-century sites and experiences, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226150024
  • Fyfe, Aileen (2012), Steam-powered knowledge: William Chambers and the business of publishing, 1820-1860, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0226276519
  • 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.[7]
  • 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.[8]
  • 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.[9]
  • Fyfe, Aileen; Gielas, Anna Maria (2020), 'Introduction: Editorship and the editing of scientific journals, 1750-1950', Centaurus, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 5-20.[10]
  • Fyfe, Aileen; McDougall-Waters, Julie; Moxham, Noah; Mørk Røstvik, Camilla (2022), 'A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015', London: UCL Press (open access) [11]

Awards and honours

Fyfe was awarded the 2013 Edelstein Prize, recognizing Steam-Powered Knowledge as best book on the history of technology.[2] Steam-Powered Knowledge was also awarded the 2013 Robert and Vineta Colby Prize, by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.[12] She was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022.[13]


References

  1. ^ "TEDxGalway - Aileen Fyfe - The Victorian Information Revolution". YouTube. 5 July 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "School of History". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  3. ^ Posted 18 April 2016 by Jen Laloup in Podcast (18 April 2016). "The History of Scientific Publishing: An interview with Aileen Fyfe". PLOScast. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Gielas, Anna (4 April 2015). "After 350 years of academic journals it's time to shake things up". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  5. ^ "Prof Aileen Fyfe". St Andrews School of History. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Our Team". Women Historians of St Andrews. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Journals, learned societies and money". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Credit, copyright, and the circulation of scientific knowledge". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Managing the growth of peer review at the Royal Society journals, 1865-1965". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Introduction: Editorship and the editing of scientific journals, 1750-1950". risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  11. ^ "A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015". uclpress.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  12. ^ Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. "Previous Colby Prize Winners". RSVP. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Professor Aileen Fyfe". Fellows. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 October 2022.