Overview
The School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester is proud of its longstanding reputation for historical research of international quality. Our teaching is rated "excellent" by the UK Quality Assurance Agency and 90% of our research was judged to be making an international impact in the last national Research Assessment Exercise (December 2008). Our particular research strengths are in Urban History, English Local History, Medieval History, Eighteenth-Century History, Financial and Economic History, American History, and Modern British and European History. We are delighted to offer this studentship, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, to allow a new PhD researcher to join our research community from October 2011. The studentship will pay full-time University UK/EU tuition fees for three years and include an annual stipend at the standard Research Council rate. This PhD is funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of a wider project entitled ‘Automobility and the Urban Environment in Nagoya and Birmingham c.1955-1973’. The purpose of the PhD studentship is to expand expertise in the historical relationship between motor transport and the environment. The central focus of the PhD will be on the study of the car and planning in post-war Birmingham. Various primary sources will be consulted, with areas of enquiry including the following: The successful student will be based within the Centre for Urban History, School of Historical Studies and will be supervised by Professor Simon Gunn (School of Historical Studies) and Dr Sue Townsend (School of History, University of Nottingham). Applicants must have a good first degree (first class or good upper-second class) in history or a relevant discipline and a masters degree or an equivalent qualification. Applicants who are still completing their degree at the time of application must be able to show clear evidence that they will achieve these grades. The studentship is open to suitable UK/EU and International (i.e., outside the EU) applicants. Please note though that the award covers tuition fees at the UK/EU rate only. International applicants (and those not eligible to pay UK/EU tuition fees) must demonstrate at the time of their application that they can fund the difference in tuition fee rates for the duration of the award. The studentship is for full-time study only and applicants must be able to commence their studies in October 2011. Potential applicants wanting to first make an informal enquiry should contact Prof. Simon Gunn: Applying for postgraduate study at the University of Leicester is now easier than ever. You can submit your application online or by post, allowing you to choose the option that suits you best. For more information and to submit your application, please click here. Applicants are requested to provide with their application: Applicants should indicate in the ‘Financial Support’ section of the application form that they are applying for the Leverhulme Trust Studentship. The closing date for applications is 17:00 Tuesday 30 August 2011. Interviews will be held in mid September 2011. The School of Historical Studies is one of the largest and most diverse Schools of Historical Studies in the United Kingdom with 33 members of academic staff and several members of research staff. It was established in 2003 as an amalgamation of the former departments of History and Economic & Social History. The School is rated excellent for teaching by TQA and in RAE 2008 50% of its output was judged at 4* and 3* standard. It teaches more than 1000 undergraduate students and has a large and thriving postgraduate and research community based in the Marc Fitch Historical Institute in Salisbury Road, about 10 minutes walk from the University's main campus, where specialist library resources, desk space, computers and a common room are available for postgraduate use. The following internationally renowned research centres are based in the School: the Centre for Urban History, the Centre for English Local History and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies. Each Centre combines undergraduate and postgraduate teaching with an active research programme which typically includes research seminars, symposia, conferences and externally-funded projects. The School also has particular strengths in early modern social, political and cultural history; modern British and European history, modern American history, gender history and medieval history. In addition there are School seminars and the postgraduate-run New History Lab, so that in a typical session the School runs approximately six seminar series. Inter-disciplinary research is encouraged through the Centre for American Studies, the Medieval Research Centre and the Victorian Studies Centre. Amongst other major grants, the School currently hosts the major £1.37 million Leverhulme interdisciplinary project, The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: evidence, memories, inventions in collaboration with the Department of Genetics, the Schools of Archaeology and Ancient History, English and Management at Leicester, and the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham. The University of Leicester is one of the UK's leading universities, committed to international excellence through the creation of world changing research and high quality, inspirational teaching. It is consistently in the top 20 of all national tables and in 2010 was ranked in the top 2% of world universities by the QS World University Rankings. In 2008/2009 we were named the Times Higher Education's University of the Year, with the judges describing us as "elite without being elitist". The publication of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in December 2008 confirmed the University of Leicester’s position as a leading research university well placed to offer degree opportunities in a wide variety of disciplines and allow our students to benefit from working with staff at the cutting edge of their disciplines. The knowledge, expertise and sense of innovation and discovery evident in our departments create an excellent environment in which to undertake study at doctoral level.
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The successful student will be required to conduct research in Birmingham and London archives (travel and subsistence costs are provided by the Leverhulme Trust). The student will also be expected to collate and upload statistical data to the project website as well as present a paper in Nagoya, Japan in year 2 of their studies.Entry Requirements
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