Prof Iwan Morus
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)

Personal Chair
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: irm@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 3.06, International Politics Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622670
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Born and brought up in Aberystwyth, Iwan graduated in Natural Science from Cambridge University in 1985 before going on to complete an MPhil (1986) and PhD (1989) in History and Philosophy of Science there. He was a Research Fellow at Cambridge until 1994, after which he spent a year at the University of California San Diego before taking up a lectureship at Queen's University Belfast. He joined the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth in 2005. He was the editor of History of Science until the end of 2014 and remains on the editorial board. He is also on the Editorial Board of the University of Wales Press Scientists of Wales series. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Learned Society of Wales.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- HYM4820 - Research Concepts and Skills
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HYM6220 - Science, Place and Victorian Culture
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HYM4820 - Research Concepts and Skills
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- HY29320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HY39320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Aspire Admin
Lecturer
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY20120 - Making History
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- HYM1160 - Dissertation
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Tutor
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HYM6220 - Science, Place and Victorian Culture
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- PGM2210 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Arts and Humanities) (2210)
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Coordinator
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
- HY24620 - Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
- HYM4820 - Research Concepts and Skills
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HYM6220 - Science, Place and Victorian Culture
- HY39320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HY29320 - Culture, Society and the Victorians
- HA29320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
- HA39320 - Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Moderator
- HYM2020 - England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century
- HQ35420 - The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement
- HQ37520 - Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1)
PhD Supervision
- History of modern science, technology and medicine; Cultural history of Britain during the long nineteenth century
Research
Iwan has published extensively on the history and culture of Victorian science. He has just completed a biography of the Welsh natural philosopher William Robert Grove and edited the recently published Oxford Illustrated History of Science. He is currently pursuing projects on the history of experts, scientific illusions, and Victorian futures. He is a co-investigator on the AHRC funded project Unsettling Scientific Stories: Expertise, Narrative and Future Histories, and a senior collaborator on the John Tyndall Correspondence Project at Montana State University and York University Canada.
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Tuesday 10.00-11.00
- Friday 11.00-12.00