Mr Lee Macdonald

Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) Administrator/Relativity and Gravitation Group Secretary

Responsibilities

  • Running administration of Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, including updating website and helping to produce the CTC's Annual Report.
  • Providing administrative support to the GR group, including assisting with research grant applications, updating website, typing and sending reference letters, assisting with recruitment and helping to organise conferences.

Career

  • 2009-present: Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) Administrator/Relativity and Gravitation Group Secretary
  • 2009 June - 2009 September: Short-Term Research Fellowship, The Science Museum, London (history of astronomy)
  • 2008 June - 2009 May: Secretary, Berkshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Reading
  • 2007 September - 2008 June: St Edmund's College, Cambridge - gained MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science.
  • 2005 September - 2006 September: University of Reading - gained MA in Modern History.
  • 2002 August - 2003 July: BP/Castrol Technology Centre, Pangbourne, Reading - Library Assistant.
  • 1994 October - 1997 July: University of Reading - gained BA (Hons.) in History.

Selected Publications

  • '"A large chunk of glass": The 98-inch mirror of the Isaac Newton Telescope, 1946-1959', The Antiquarian Astronomer, (in press).
  • 'Isaac Roberts, E. E. Barnard and the Nebulae', Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. xli, No. 2 (2010 April), 239-259.
  • 'The origins and construction of the Isaac Newton Telescope, Herstmonceux, 1944-1967', Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 120, No. 2 (2010 April), 73-86.
  • Review of Secrets of the Universe by Paul Murdin, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 120, No. 1 (2010 February).
  • Review of Cosmos by John North, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 119, No. 6 (2008 December).
  • Review of British University Observatories by Roger Hutchins, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 119, No. 5 (2008 October).
  • Review of The Haunted Observatory by Richard Baum, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Vol. 119, No. 2 (2008 April).
  • How to Observe the Sun Safely (Springer, 2002).