The Warwick Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) has launched the 2013 Warwick IAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme with a deadline of 27th February 2013. The Fellowships run for two years and are open to candidates within three years of their PhD graduation. Full details are available at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/current/prf/.

The Department of History is permitted to support five candidates for the scheme, and so all potential candidates are required to submit their application to the Department, including a nomination from one of the Department's academic staff, by 15th February 2013. The relevant paperwork should be submitted by email to the Departmental Administrator Mr Robert Horton at R.S.Horton@warwick.ac.uk.

All potential candidates will be informed by the 22nd February 2013 whether or not the Department will be supporting their application.

Mr Frederick Smith, a single-honours Renaissance-stream History graduate of 2011, has won the "Royal Historical Society / History Today" 2012 prize for his undergraduate dissertation "'Discerning cheese from Chalke': Louvainist Propaganda and recusant identity in 1560s England".

One of the judges, Professor Mark Cornwall, commented, "This is a very sophisticated and ambitious piece of work which combines excellent text analysis with a clear and engaging theoretical framework. It boldly challenges existing historiography in trying to reassess the impact of Louvanist propaganda as a vehicle for reasserting Catholicism in England in the first decade of Queen Elizabeth I. The result is an admirably controlled and very well-presented dissertation with a convincing argument."

The Institute of Advanced Studies is inviting applications for the Warwick Global Research Fellowships. If you might be interested in these posts, please read the Departmental Guidelines for further information on how the Department of History will conduct the nomination process.

The HRC announces a competition for 3 internal Doctoral Fellows.  Each Fellow will receive a research budget of £400 and a conference budget of £600 to organise a one-day interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Conference during the academic year 2010-2011.

This is a one-year Fellowship and is not renewable.  It is open to full-time and part-time students whose dissertations are being supervised in the Arts Faculty and Philosophy, including those holding other University and British Academy awards.  If you will have completed at least one, but not more than two full-time years (or part-time equivalent) of Doctoral research by 1 October 2010, you are eligible to apply.

For further details and an application form please click here or contact Sue Dibben in the HRC office.

The History of Parliament is again in 2009 running its competition for undergraduates designed to encourage the study of British and Irish parliamentary or political history.  A prize of £500 will be awarded to the best undergraduate dissertation on a subject relating to British or Irish parliamentary or political history. Each University History department is invited to enter one dissertation which they consider to qualify.