Tarquin Holmes
Research Administrator
Position Description
Working within the Law Faculty Research Administration team supporting:
- Handling Research Administration correspondence via research@law.ox.ac.uk.
- Promoting external and internal research funding opportunities within the Faculty, including via updating funding opportunities pages.
- Co-ordinating internal selection processes for ECR fellowship schemes.
- Managing the Faculty Research Support Fund and Faculty Internet Engagement Fund.
- Managing small Faculty grants, including Higher Studies Fund awards.
Publications
Holmes T, ‘A Disgusting and Useless Substance? Hyraceum between Folk Medicine and Pharmacopoeia’ (2025) 5 Topics in the History of Medicine 178
Holmes T, ‘An Amateur Physiologist: George Henry Lewes as Witness at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, Part II’ (2024) 76(1) George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies 1
Holmes T, ‘An Amateur Physiologist: George Henry Lewes as Witness at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, Part I’ (2024) 75(2) George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies 115
Friese C, Holmes T and Message R, ‘Introduction to national cultures of animals, care and science’ (2023) 18(4) BioSocieties 707
Holmes T and Friese C, ‘Figuring the ’cynical scientist’ in British animal science: the politics of invisibility’ (2023) 18(4) BioSocieties 780
Holmes T, ‘Science, sensitivity and the sociozoological scale: Constituting and complicating the human-animal boundary at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and beyond’ (2021) 90 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 194
Holmes T and Friese C, ‘Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object: an analysis of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection’ (2020) 42(4) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 50
Holmes T, ‘The wild type as concept and in experimental practice: A history of its role in classical genetics and evolutionary theory’ (2017) 63 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 15
Holmes T, ‘Holmes on Sackey, ’Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space’’ (H-Net, 1 April 2025)
Holmes T, ‘Holmes on Wintersteen, ’Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem’’ (H-Net, 1 August 2023)
Holmes T, ‘Book Review: Steven Vogel, ’Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature’’ (Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 11 February 2017)
Holmes T, ‘Book Review: ’Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism’’ (Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 19 September 2016)
Holmes T, ‘Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000). Claas Kirchhelle’ (2023) 80(3) Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences jrad079 (review)
Holmes T, ‘BERT THEUNISSEN, Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900-2000, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.’ (2021) 43(3) History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 98 (review)
Holmes T, ‘Vanessa Heggie, Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 253. ISBN 978-0-2266-5088-3. $40.00 (hardback).’ (2021) 54(2) The British Journal for the History of Science 239 (review)
Holmes T, ‘Nicole C. Nelson, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 255. ISBN 978-0-2265-4608-7. $30.00 (paperback)’ (2020) 53(2) British Journal for the History of Science 279 (review)