Warwick Taught Masters Scholarships – deadline Friday 31^st May

The University of Warwick will be offering the Warwick Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme to support eligible postgraduate students in 2024/2025. The Scheme has £500,000 to allocate and we expect to make a minimum of 50 awards. Awards are set up to £10,000 per student and available to eligible Home fee status students from under-represented groups who wish to start a postgraduate taught masters course in 2024/2025.

Further information and guidance on eligibility can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/outreach/scholarships/wtmss/ and any queries can be sent to wtmss@warwick.ac.uk.

UG Sanctuary Scholarships – deadline Tuesday 30^th April

Warwick’s UG Sanctuary Scholarship applications for 2024 entry are now open. Please note that these scholarships are open to eligible Warwick offer holders/applicants who are seeking asylum, have humanitarian protection or discretionary/limited leave to remain due to an asylum claim and cover a full tuition fee waiver and the equivalent of the full maintenance grant and Warwick Bursary. There’s more information about the eligibility criteria, application process, etc, through the links below and the application deadline is Tues 30^th April:

• Warwick UG Sanctuary Scholarship information
• Warwick UG Sanctuary Scholarship application form

Any enquiries about the UG Sanctuary Scholarships can be sent to lifecycleteam@warwick.ac.uk

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The conference ‘Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World’, funded by the Humanities Research Centre, took place on 27^th April 2024 at the Wolfson Research Exchange. This event provided a platform for an interdisciplinary dialogue between screen studies and kinship studies, bringing together researchers from both anthropology and film and media studies. Professor Janet Carsten from the University of Edinburgh gave the keynote address, titled ‘Creative Kinship: Extending Familial and Moral Imaginaries’, proposing that cinema can open up an expansive and imaginative terrain to explore kinship issues. In accordance with this topic, the conference was organised into three panels: ‘Creatures and Landscapes’ examined how we can make kin from both non-human and ecological perspectives; ‘Queer Families and Communities’ addressed the new visions of queer families and communities in terms of today’s geopolitics; ‘Kinship and Genre’ obtained a critical viewpoint to reconsider the representations of familial relationships in mainstream films. Professor Alastair Phillips, Professor Catherine Constable, Professor Karl Schoonover, and Dr James Taylor chaired the keynote address and panels. Additionally, Dom Thornton gave a paper on the ‘fast family’ of the Fast and Furious franchise.

An exciting opportunity is available for this PhD Scholarship funded as part of the Monash Warwick Alliance. The studentship will be jointly supervised by Professor David Lambert (Warwick) and Professor Gordon Pentland (Monash).

For full details and how to apply visit Jobs at Monash. Closing Date: Sunday 3 September 2023, 11:55pm AEST

Therese Martin (Medieval Studies, Instituto de Historia, CCHS, Madrid) The art of rulership, or material evidence for reigning women: Subh of Córdoba (d. 998/999) and Urraca of León-Castile (d. 1126)

Please note: Seminars are in person only. Everyone welcome. The seminar will be followed by drinks.

Alison joins fellow TPS PGR student Mark Scott who was appointed as a Fellow of the Institute in February 2022. Within the Institute, he has been part of the Evaluation Learning Circle looking at Evaluation Practice across the university, in addition he supported the Institute with the evaluation of the Resonate Festival in 2022 which coincided with the final part of Coventry’s year as UK City of Culture 2021. In late 2022, he was awarded funding from the Collaboration and Co-Production Fund where he worked with the Belgrade Theatre on developing accessible tools and toolkits relating to evaluation for local artists in Coventry and Warwickshire. More about the work of the institute and details of the application process is available at https://warwick.ac.uk/wie/aboutwie

Our innovative MASc in Global Sustainable Development offers a unique opportunity to join a community of transdisciplinary experts and practitioners with a passion for research and teaching. We spoke to one of our current students Karolina, to understand why she pursued postgraduate study and find out more about her experiences of the course.

Inca is one of our Postgraduate students, and part of our first ever cohort of students for the Community, Engagement and Belonging MASc programme. We caught up with Inca to find out more about her decision to pursue our unique MASc degree, her experiences of the course so far and what she plans to do with her studies after graduating.

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Encounters and Exchanges in a Global Past

The Oxford Transnational and Global History SeminarLink opens in a new window is inviting submissions for a postgraduate conference, Saturday 25 June, 2022. The conference will be held in person in the Oxford History Faculty.

We welcome submissions on the theme 'Encounters and Exchanges in a Global Past.' We will explore the ways in which encounters and exchanges were experienced in the near and distant past. Despite the recent proliferation of frameworks for understanding contact and the exchange of goods, ideas and biota that accompanied it, contact is rarely considered from a truly global perspective that spans millennia, continents and disciplines.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions relating to exchanges across time and space. We are particularly interested in submissions on:the infrastructure that underlay encounters and exchanges, such as technology and ideology; multi-scalar interaction; the role of translation in contact; the environmental history of encounters and exchanges.

Sessions will consist of 20 minute papers with time for questions and discussion.

Interested postgraduates should send a 400-word abstract and brief biography to oxfordtghs@gmail.com

Submission deadline: 1 May 2022

For further events and information visit our website http://global.history.ox.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Mixing methods for the study of topical affairs - an Advanced Training Event convened by Noortje Marres