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.

As part of a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on ‘Oriental poetry, Latin scholarship and the European Enlightenment: The case of William Jones’, a three-year PhD studentship will be available from 1 October 2016 in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. The studentship will cover university fees and maintenance at the current rates for eligible Home or EU students.

Supervised by Dr John Gilmore, the student will complete a thesis within the field of European receptions of Oriental literature c. 1750-1850, with a focus on translations into Latin. The student will also participate in other activities attached to the research project, including conferences, and work alongside a team of researchers including Dr Stefano Pellò (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice). Applicants will have a background in Classics and/or Comparative Literary Studies, including a good first degree and a master’s degree, and a good reading knowledge of Latin is required. A prior knowledge of, or a demonstrable willingness to learn, a relevant non-European language (which might include, but would not be limited to, one of the following: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit, Chinese) would be an advantage. A prior demonstrable interest in an aspect of Neo-Latin or Classical Reception Studies would also be an advantage.

Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Gilmore directly at J.T.Gilmore@warwick.ac.uk. Proposals need not relate specifically to the work of Sir William Jones, but must be relevant to the general field of the research project, as indicated above. Applicants should send a cover letter outlining their suitability for the studentship, a CV and a writing sample via email to Dr Gilmore. Applicants should furthermore arrange for two academic references to be sent by email to Dr Gilmore at the same email address. The deadline for all application materials is 16 September 2016.

Prof Emma Mason has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small research grant to support her symposium on the poet Elizabeth Jennings in October.

Congratulations to John Gilmore - the Leverhulme Trust have approved a grant for his project on "Oriental poetry, Latin Scholarship and the European Englightenment: The case of William Jones." More details to follow.

Congratulations to our PGS, Visnja Krstic and Di Wu, who have been awarded full funding on Harvard's prestigious, and very competitive, Institute for World Literature.

The ESRC Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Warwick, one of 21 such centres in the UK, embodies the university’s commitment to producing the next generation of leaders in social science research. Internationally renowned for its research excellence, Warwick is now inviting applications for an ESRC Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner the Parliamentary Archives to commence in October 2016 on the subject of ‘From Suffragette to Citizen: Women and Parliament in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries.’ The Parliamentary Archives holds the historic records of the House of Commons and House of Lords dating back 500 years, providing innovative and expert information management, preservation, access and outreach services enabling anyone in the world to use Parliament’s records, both now and in the future.

For more information and details of how to apply, please see the advert on jobs.ac.uk.
 

The Department is pleased to announce that it will be offering a range of History and History of Medicine Doctoral and Masters scholarships for October 2016 admission. Closing dates: 19 January 2016 for MPhil/PhD applicants and 15 February 2016 for MA applicants.

To be considered, candidates should complete an online University application.

For full details of the awards and the application procedure, please visit the PG Funding Opportunities webpage.

 
Candidates interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with the Warwick History Department must submit their preliminary application to the Department by midnight GMT on Thursday 6th January 2016. Please check the details of what is required from potential applicants.

Dr Peter Gammon at the School of Engineering at Warwick will lead two new projects in which novel power electronic transistors are developed for harsh environment applications.