Postgraduate Prospectus 2013 - Swansea University

History
Research opportunities
MA by Research/MPhil/PhD
RAE2008 50% of research rated
world-leading (4*) or internationally
excellent (3*)
Professors
H V Bowen
D J Power
J Spurr
N W Thompson
M Whitehead
C Williams
Academic and research staff 32
Postgraduates 141
Entry requirements:
Normally a good Honours degree
(first-class or 2.1) in History or a
related subject.
English Language requirement:
IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each
component) or Swansea University
recognised equivalent.
Scholarships and Bursaries
A range of postgraduate scholarships and
bursaries is available. For details, please
visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/
Postgraduate
Other sources of funding include the Arts
and Humanities Research Council, the
Wellcome Trust and Local Education
Authorities.
How can I find out more?
Visit our website:
www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities
Contact the Admissions Tutor:
Email:
COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@
swansea.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926
Visit the University:
see page 174 for details
Applications can be made online at
www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline
– see pages 176 – 177 for further
information
For details of the Master’s courses
available in History, please see page 66.
Research Degrees – History
History challenges us to understand the
past so that we might make sense of the
present. It encourages us to think about
how the past is studied, written about,
and represented, how it has been kept
alive for generations, and how it can be
preserved for generations to come.
The Department welcomes proposals for
postgraduate research projects that
complement staff research interests.
Research degrees in History will:
• provide you with new and specialised
research skills
• prepare you for a career in academic
research and teaching
• equip you with skills relevant for a
rewarding career in a range of diverse
fields, including teaching, accountancy,
banking, insurance, the media, marketing,
and museum and heritage work
The Richard Burton Archives hold
collections of local, industrial and political
records, as do the West Glamorgan
Archive Service, the Royal Institution of
South Wales, and the record offices at
Cardiff and Carmarthen.
The South Wales Miners’ Library, which is
managed by the University, houses
important printed and audio-visual aids for
research into south Wales’ industrial and
political history.
The University is also a centre for
American Studies and Medieval Studies,
possessing staff expertise and library
resources in these areas.
Research Strengths
Current research interests within the
Department include:
Medieval History
• The Anglo-Norman ‘Realm’ and
the Angevin Empire
• Capetian France, especially
the monarchy, aristocracy, and
religious orders
• The Cathars and the Albigensian
Crusade
• Charters and the documentary records
of medieval France and England
• The Mediterranean world, especially the
Crusades, later medieval Italian society
and politics, and the Italian
Renaissance, including art history
• England and Wales in the central and
late Middle Ages, including the
aristocracy and gentry, the Welsh
Marches, urban history, law and crime,
women and the law, religious belief and
practice, and education and literacy
• Gender and the life cycle in late
medieval Europe
• Medieval frontier societies and
borderlands, and concepts of frontiers
from the late Roman Empire to the
present day
Early Modern History
• Most aspects of British history between
1500 and 1800, especially religious,
scientific, cultural and gender history
• The history of health, medicine in early
modern Britain
• History of Disabilities
• The Portuguese Empire
• The Reformation and Counter-
Reformation
• Science, intellectual life, collecting and
museums in early modern Europe
• The social history of early modern
sex and marriage
• Crime and witchcraft
• The Enlightenment, republicanism and
international relations in the eighteenth
century
Modern History
• Most aspects of Welsh history,
especially industrial society
• The cultural, intellectual and urban
history of nineteenth century and
twentieth century Britain
• Modern International History
• The United States since 1750,
in particular slavery, the South
and the Civil War
• The economic and imperial history
of Britain in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries
• Emigration and urbanisation in
the British Isles between the
eighteenth and twentieth centuries
• The cultural history of Victorian
Britain, including theatre and popular
entertainment
• The political history of the UK
since 1800
• Military and society in Europe
between 1750 and 1815
• Austrian and German history in the
late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
• Austrian, German and Central
European history, especially in the fields
of urban, labour and post-1945 history
• Modern Economic History
• Quantitative aspects of British
economic growth from the sixteenth
to the twenty-first centuries
• Demographic history
• Anti-capitalist and socialist political
economy
• Policing and Police Forces in
twentieth century Europe
• Italian fascism
• Allied Occupation of Italy
• Contemporary French and Italian social
and cultural history
• Memory studies and oral history of
twentieth century Europe
• History of protest and activism in the
1960s and 1970s
Research Institute for Arts and Humanities
The Research Institute for Arts and
Humanities (RIAH) supports two major
Research Centres, including the
Callaghan Centre for the Study of
Conflict, Power, Empire. The Callaghan
Centre produces world-class research in
the areas of conflict and security, empire
and post-colonialism, ‘digital’ war, and
conflict and culture. It also manages major
Research Council funded projects, and
promotes collaboration between scholars,
policymakers and cultural providers. RIAH
also supports a wide range of research
groups, which provide a focus for
specialist projects, postgraduate research,
grant applications, seminar series, and
contact with external partners. Research
groups include:
• The Richard Burton Centre for the
Study of Wales
• CECSAM, the Centre for the
Comparative Study of the Americas
• MEMO: Centre for Medieval and
Early Modern Research
For further information about
RIAH, visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/
artsandhumanities/riah
All History research students belong to the
Graduate Centre in the College of Arts
and Humanities. The Centre provides
pastoral as well as administrative support
and is also responsible for research skills
training and support, and facilitating a
lively intellectual environment for the
College’s postgraduate research
community of 200 students.
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