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The Department of History seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in the History of Modern China. You will conduct research in the history of Modern China, and be prepared to work in collaboration with colleagues within the Department, and across the University. You will be expected to build research networks in your specialism beyond the University.

The Department of History seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology. You will conduct research in the history of Science and Technology, and be prepared to work in collaboration with colleagues within the Department, and across the University. You will be expected to build research networks in your specialism beyond the University.

 
The Undergraduate Awards (UA) has announced the winners of the 2016 programme, including the Global Winner and Highly Commended Entrants from the University of Warwick.
 
Cited as the ultimate champion of high-potential undergraduates, and often referred to as a “junior Nobel Prize”, The Undergraduate Awards is the world’s largest international academic awards programme, recognising excellent research and original work across the sciences, humanities, business and creative arts.
 
The Undergraduate Awards received a record number of submission in the 2016 programme, totalling a massive 5,514 papers from undergraduates in 244 institutions and 121 nationalities. The Global Winner is the highest performing paper within it’s category and Highly Commended Entrants are those who were ranked in the top 10% of submissions.
 
Congratulations to Emilia Antiglio who is the Global Winner 2016 of the History category with her paper, ‘The Diffusion of 'Porcelaine des Indes' in Eighteenth-Century France: from Lorient to Paris and beyond, 1720-1775’. Emilia was a Politics and International Studies student at Warwick University from 2011 to 2015, who chose to study the History Department special subject "Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans: China, India and the West 1601-1833" in her final year, and her essay was on the French East India Company and the Porcelain trade, and drew on primary research in the archives of Lorient to build a database of 1,000 records of specific orders and goods received off ships landing in Lorient during the eighteenth century.
 
The Highly Commended Entrants from Warwick are:

• Emilia Antiglio - Politics & International Relations category (for her second paper)
• Michael Yip - Politics & International Relations category (for two papers)
• Liam Simmonds - Politics & International Relations category
• Oyinkansola Fafowora - Politics & International Relations category

Speaking about this year’s Winners and Highly Commended Entrants, CEO of The Undergraduate Awards Louise Hodgson said “This is a huge achievement for the University of Warwick and its students. UA received the highest number of submissions to date with only the best papers making it through the judging process - the competition was extremely tough and the Judges were astounded at the high quality of undergraduate research in the programme this year. Congratulations to this year’s successful entrants”.
 
Winners and Highly Commended Entrants are now invited to meet their fellow awardees at the annual UA Global Summit, taking place in Dublin, Ireland on November 8th-11th. The attendees will be addressed by the likes of NASA Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, Shiza Shahid of the Malala Fund, MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abrahams, among many more speakers and facilitators.
 
About The Undergraduate Awards

The Undergraduate Awards is the world's largest international academic awards programme, recognising innovation and excellence at undergraduate level. Cited as the ultimate champion for high-potential undergraduates, UA identifies leading creative thinkers through their undergraduate coursework and provides top performing students with the support, network and opportunities they require to raise their profiles and further their career paths.
 

Candidates interested in applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the History Department by midnight GMT on Sunday 18th September 2016. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.

Petitions, Parliament, and People in the Long Nineteenth Century: Petitions from Women.

The PhD studentship is available as part of the 'Re-thinking Petitions, Parliament, and People in the Long Nineteenth Century' project generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2016-097). This new initiative, led by Dr. Richard Huzzey (Durham) and Dr. Henry Miller (Durham), explores the powerful role of parliamentary petitioning in the development of modern Britain and exploits the under-used records of the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Petitions.

Applicants are encouraged to pursue their own research interests within the broad research areas we have identified for an achievable PhD project. The student will work collaboratively with the rest of the project team on our broader contextualisation of parliamentary petitioning, receiving due credit as co-authors for the project's published articles. The project's advisory team includes Dr. Sarah Richardson who will supervise this studentship at the University of Warwick.

Project Details

This studentship will be based at the University of Warwick exploring petitions to the House of Commons from women within the period 1787-1918. There is considerable scope for the student to shape the dissertation focus, which might include - but is not limited to - topics such as:

• When and where women signed petitions alongside men, and whether this varied according to the subject;

• To what extent petitions included exclusively female signatures;

• The extra-parliamentary role of petitioning alongside other forms of female political engagement; or,

• The role of petitioning in female-led campaigns, either through a case study or comparison.

The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Sarah Richardson (Warwick) with Dr. Richard Huzzey (Durham) and Dr. Henry Miller (Durham) as external supervisors. The studentship will begin on October 1st 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.

For informal enquiries about the scope and details of the project applicants are encouraged to email Dr. Sarah Richardson or, Dr. Richard Huzzey.

Eligibility

Eligible candidates ought to have a first- or upper-second-class honours degree or equivalent and they should have completed a masters-level qualification achieving Merit or above, or be expecting to complete this by the PhD start date.

This studentship is open to applications from home, EU and international students. The funding details are subject to final confirmation but the award will cover tuition fees at Home/EU rates and a standard postgraduate grant (stipend) towards living expenses for three years (full-time study) which is likely to be £14,057.Please note:- international students will be required to fund the difference in fees themselves.

How to Apply

Applicants should submit the following documents to Robert Horton (r.s.horton@warwick.ac.uk) no later than 5pm on Monday 12th September 2016:

• A curriculum vitae (no more than 2 pages)

• A research proposal

• A brief letter outlining their qualification for the studentship

• The names and contact details of two academic referees

All documents should be submitted in either MS Word or PDF format. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete an application for the PhD in History at Warwick University. The interview date for shortlisted candidates is yet to be confirmed.

Acknowledgement of Funding

The Leverhulme Trust was established by the Will of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers. Since 1925 the Trust has provided grants and scholarships for research and education. Today, it is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing approximately £80m a year. For more information about the Trust, please visit www.leverhulme.ac.uk.

The Modern Records Centre (MRC) at Warwick University has prepared a set of digital research guides to assist and encourage undergraduate students to use archival sources in their modules of study. The guides can be found on the MRC website.
 

The Warwick University History Department is recruiting a three-year full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Public Engagement) as part of the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award project ‘Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000’, a collaborative project between Professor Hilary Marland of the Warwick History Department and Dr Catherine Cox (School of History and Archives, University College Dublin), the project’s two Principal Investigators (PIs). The project runs for five years (2014-19), and a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow is sought for three years commencing 1st January 2017.

For more details and a link to the application form, please see the online advert and job description. The closing date for applications is 6th September 2016.

The history of luxury – from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs – is explored in a new book written by Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello. A story of extravagance, excess and indulgence, Luxury: A Rich History considers how opulence has developed from antiquity to the 21st century.

In an article for History Extra, Riello focuses on the history of American wealth, revealing how American fortunes bankrolled the 19th-century British aristocracy. Read the full article on the History Extra website.