e-Newsletter
November/December 2012
Latest news
Dame Lynne Brindley to be awarded honorary doctorate at the School’s 2012 graduation ceremony
The School is pleased to announce that Dame Lynne Brindley, DBE will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa at its graduation ceremony on Saturday 15 December 2012... read more
The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP will give his third and final 2012 Hamlyn Lecture, on the topic of judicial appointments, on 4 December 2012... read more
Professor Barry Smith announced as Leadership Fellow for the AHRC's theme of Science and Culture
Professor Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy, has been announced as the AHRC's Leadership Fellow for the theme of Science and Culture... read more
Dr David James Cantor, lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has been awarded £210,862 as part of the prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders scheme... read more
Event highlights
Pick of the podcasts:
Brian Ferneyhough 'String Quartet 6' performance
Arditti Quartet
Weird Council: an International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville - Keynote
Professor Roger Luckhurst
Forthcoming events:
Other Worlds: Victorian Network Conference
3 December 2012
Rape in War and Peace: Rethinking Sexual Violence and Post-war Justice
5 December 2012
The School’s termly Events Brochure is available online and in print on request.
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Digital resources
Work begins on groundbreaking digital oral history of the Commonwealth project
Work formally began on the Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth project at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Dr. Sue Onslow... read more
SAS-SPACE downloads near 200,000 in its first two years
Since its inauguration in November 2010, the School’s ePrints repository has had over 189,000 downloads, with more than 90,000 in the academic year 2011-12 alone... read more
Fellowships
School's Visiting Fellow 2012-13
Selected after stiff competition from a strong field of applicants, the SAS Visiting Fellow for 2012-13 has been awarded to Professor Kimberly Coles... read more
New Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow
The School is delighted to welcome Dr Isabel Yaya as the second of its two Visiting Fellows being generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust... read more
Institute of Classical Studies. Closing date: 31 January 2013.
Sylvia Naish Fellowships and Scholarships in Germanic Studies
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. Closing date: 31 March 2012.
New publications
'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
Editor(s) Elaine Farrell
Publisher: Institute of Historical Research
What future for human rights in a non-western world?
Editor(s) Simon Bennett, Éadaoin O’Brien
Publisher: Human Rights Consortium
Fifty Years On: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revised and Reinterpreted
Author(s) Mark White
Publisher: Institute for the Study of the Americas
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Research training and graduate study
New MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture
The MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture is a new programme which will take its first students in 2013–14 and is being offered jointly by the Warburg Institute and the National Gallery, London... read more
School of Advanced Study and AHRC Studentships
A a number of studentships and bursaries are available for both Master's and research degrees...read more
The School’s research training programme includes discipline-specific research training and generic research and transferable skills. Most of the training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge. For event listing please check our Research Training Calendar
Job opportunities
Graduate Trainee Library Assistants (3 posts)
Institute of Historical Research Library. Closing Date: 31 January 2013
Winnington Ingram Trainee (Graduate Trainee Library Assistant)
Institute of Classical Studies Library. Closing Date: 31 January 2013
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