PhD Studentship in History

Overview

Qualification type: PhD
Subject area: History
Location/Campus: Hatfield, College Lane campus
Start date: February 2025
Closing application date: 30 November 2024
Duration: three years, full time

Project outline

In principle, proposals are welcome on any topic in history. Potential applicants may nonetheless wish to consider the research interests and expertise of the faculty. This includes, but is not limited to:

public history and heritage studies; histories of medicine and health; twentieth-century international history; film and history; histories of the supernatural and popular religion in the early modern and modern periods; democratic and social movements and popular protest from the eighteenth century to the present; landscape and environmental heritage; urban history and town planning; gender, race and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the British Empire; colonial South Asia; law and crime

Supervisors

We have diverse supervisory expertise. Further details about the history group team and their research

Entry requirements

To apply for this studentship, you must hold a good honours degree (2:1 or above), and a Master's degree, in a relevant discipline (Essential).

Eligibility

Applicants must be permanently resident in the UK and have UK Home fee status.

How to apply

Applicants must submit:

A completed application form.
A 2000-word research proposal
Two academic references - to be sent direct from the referee to the Doctoral College
Copies of qualification certificates and transcripts.
Certification of English language competence (minimum IELTS 6.5 or equivalent) for candidates for whom English is not their first language.
Interviews will take place: Week commencing 16 December 2024
For advice on the application process, please contact Dr Laura Mee, Research Tutor for the School of Creative Arts.
For informal enquiries about potential research topics, and History research at UH more broadly, please contact Professor Tony Shaw.

Please send completed applications via email to the Doctoral College using the following format in the email subject line: 'PhD Studentship in History'.

Funding information

Full tuition fee waiver for three years and a stipend each year at UK Research Council rates, which for 2024-2025 will be £19,237.