College: Newnham
Supervisor: Hasok Chang
Advisor: Simon Schaffer
Thesis: Influence, Instrument and Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930)
Research interests: The physical sciences from the 19th century onwards, atmospheric sciences, scientific instruments, general philosophy of science, scientific progress
Publications
Duncan, K. "Between the Mountain, the Meadow, the Calm, and the Storm: Exner’s and Elster and Geitel’s Electrical Atmospheres." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 53, no. 4 (2023): 349-388
Chang, Hasok and Duncan, KS., and Kim, Kihyang, and Paik, Seoung-Hey, "Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don't Tell Us" Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 2020, 21, 806-822
Duncan, KS., et al. "Characterisation of p-type ZnS: Cu transparent conducting films fabricated by high-temperature pulsed laser deposition." arXiv (2017)
Teaching
I supervise general introductions to the History of Science, and specialist papers on 19th and 20th century physical and environmental sciences.
Roles
- Integrating HPS Reading Group (2021-)
- Supervisors' Coffee (2020-2021)
- HPS Graduate Workshop (2018-2019)
- "How Scientific Objects End. A Workshop." (December 2018)
Education
- MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science (University of Cambridge)
- MSci in Physics and Philosophy (University of Bristol)
Outreach
- Guest writer for Jargonium - "Electrolysis and Education: Learning Models not Facts"
- Guest speaker, BBC Radio Cambridge's "Naked Scientists" podcast
Awards
- Royal Institution Freer Fellow (2021-2022)
- Gerda Henkel Stiftung Scholar (2019-2022)
- The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust Grant Holder (2019, 2020)
- George Fentham Birmingham Charity Postgraduate Award (2018)
- YLCE Postgraduate Award (2018)
- Isaac Newton Masters Scholarship, University of Cambridge (2016)
- Rausing, Williamson and Lipton Studentship, University of Cambridge (2016)
- Cicely Coulson Prize for most promising final year student in Single or Joint Honours philosophy, University of Bristol (2016)