Lisa Jardine#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3627 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Lisa Jardine passed away October 25, 2015.
Positions Held
- 2012 - present Professor of Renaissance Studies, University College London
- 2012 - present Director of Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP), University College London
- 2012 - present Director of Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), University College London
- 1989 - 2012 Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London
- 1989 Reader in Renaissance Studies, Faculty of English University of Cambridge
- 1976 - 1989 Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Faculty of English University of Cambridge
- 1976 - 1989 Fellow and College Lecturer, Jesus College Cambridge
- 1975 - 1976 Fellow and College Lecturer, King's College, Cambridge
- 1974 - 1975 Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge
- 1974 - 1975 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University USA
- 1971 - 1974 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, University of London
Fields of Scholarship
- Book history
- Archival studies
- Digitization of archives
- Theories and methods of manuscript editions
- Text and discourses and rhetoric of the Renaissance
- Interdisciplinary studies
- History of Science
- Intellectual History
Honours and Awards
- 2005 CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for services to education
- 2008-2014 Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority – the UK government regulator for assisted reproduction
- 2013-14 President of the British Science Association
- 1992 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- 1992 Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce
- 1995 Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
- 2006 Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
- 2005 Honorary doctorate of Letters, the University of St Andrews
- 2004 Honorary doctorate of Letters, Sheffield Hallam University
- 2006 Honorary doctorate of Letters, Open University,
- 2011 Honorary doctorate of Science, University of Aberdeen
- 2011 Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
- 2012 Honorary Fellow, British Science Association
- 2002 Royal Society Wilkins Prize medal
- 2012 Bacon medal for History of Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA
- 2013 - 2011 Trustee of the V&A Museum for eight years,
- 2004 - 2009 member of the Council of the Royal Institution London
- 2009 - 2012 member, Apeldoorn British Dutch Conference Steering Board
- 2007 - 2008 Seconded to the Royal Society in London as Expert Advisor to its Collections
- 2011 - present Non-Executive Director of The National Archives.
