PhD Studentship: The Medieval March of Wales

The challenge: The ERC/UKRI analysis challenge, ‘Mapping the March: Medieval Wales and England, c. 1282–1550 ’, is inviting purposes for a funded PhD studentship to be held within the Division of English on the College of Bristol. The studentship shall be supervised by Professor Helen Fulton and an acceptable second supervisor. The analysis subject for the PhD shall be carefully associated to the goals of the ‘Mapping the March’ challenge, that are to supply cultural and literary histories of the medieval March of Wales, alongside a prosopography and digital maps of the Marcher lordships. Candidates can suggest their very own analysis subject or space, drawn from considered one of extra of comparative literature, linguistics, multilingualism, and manuscript research, located in relation to the March of Wales between 1282 and 1550. 

For extra details about this chance, please see our additional info doc: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/websites/arts/postgraduate/paperwork/funding-adverts/ERCpercent20andpercent20UKRIpercent20-%20Mappingpercent20thepercent20Marchpercent20studentshippercent20furtherpercent20details.pdf  

How you can apply:

Please make a web based software for this challenge at http://www.bris.ac.uk/pg-howtoapply . Please choose > on the Programme Selection web page and September 2024 as your begin date. You’ll be prompted to enter particulars of the studentship within the Funding and Analysis Particulars sections of the shape – please enter “ERC: The Medieval March of Wales”. Candidates ought to submit a CV (most 2 pages), a letter outlining their earlier research, analysis expertise, and expertise (most 2 pages – please add this as your Private Assertion), and a top level view of their most well-liked PhD subject or space (most 1 web page – please add this as your Analysis Proposal). The letter and description ought to point out their relevance to the ‘Mapping the March’ challenge. Additionally, you will be required to add transcripts of undergraduate and Grasp’s {qualifications} and two educational references. All paperwork must be submitted as MS Phrase or PDF information by the time limit of seven Might. 

Interviews shall be held in individual in Bristol on Thursday 23 Might. 

Candidate necessities:  Candidates ought to have a great undergraduate diploma in English, Medieval Research, Welsh, or one other related self-discipline, and will have accomplished, or be within the means of finishing, a related Grasp’s diploma. They may even have to fulfill the College of Bristol postgraduate analysis entry necessities: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/examine/postgraduate/analysis/english-literature/

Candidates should be a resident of the UK. Generally, full studentships can be found to college students who’re settled within the UK and have been ordinarily resident for a interval of no less than three years earlier than the beginning of their postgraduate research. EU and worldwide candidates are usually not eligible to use for this studentship. 

Funding: UKRI PhD Studentship 

Contacts: For research-related enquiries, please contact Professor Helen Fulton: [email protected]   

For software queries, please contact the Arts Postgraduate Analysis Admissions staff on the College of Bristol: [email protected] .