Dr Laura Brassington is the inaugural Director of the OAE. Laura received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in the History and Philosophy of Science (2022), before which she completed her MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine also at the University of Cambridge, and her MA in Modern History and International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
Prior to joining McGill in August 2023, Laura held a Visiting Lectureship at King’s College London in the Centre for Research in Education in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, where she taught on the Master’s in STEM Education. She has also worked at Universities UK (London) with portfolios on research and innovation and quality and value in higher education, and at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI, Oxford).
When she’s not at OAE, Laura is working on her first monograph exploring the co-construction of science and status in Charles Darwin’s correspondence.