Postgraduate Prospectus 2013 - Swansea University

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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. 120 121
Law Research opportunities MPhil/PhD RAE2008 45% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Professors I Davies T Jones E MacDonald K Morrow G Parry V Röben R Williams B Soyer J Snell A Tettenborn M Stallworthy R Thomas D Patterson Academic and research staff 29 Postgraduates 150 Entry requirements: As a minimum candidates are normally required to have an excellent Master’s degree, preferably in Law. Exceptional performance at undergraduate level will be considered. English Language requirement: IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 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 Depending on their suitability, students may be appointed to a tutorship and receive payment for undertaking undergraduate teaching. How can I find out more? Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/law Contact the Admissions Tutor: Dr Bebhinn Donelly-Lazarov Email: lawpostgradresearch@swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 513584 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 Master’s courses available in Law, please see page 68. Research Degrees – Law From small law firms to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice, the legal profession shapes every aspect of our society, politics, and economies. Law regulates how we buy and sell goods and services, and how we govern ourselves. It defines how we prosecute and defend, and how we secure the rights of people who may not be able to defend themselves. The School of Law welcomes proposals for postgraduate research projects that complement staff research interests. Research degrees in Law will: • provide you with new and specialised research skills • prepare you for a career in academic research and teaching • equip you with the skills necessary to apply legal concepts in a practical environment Students are fully supported by the School’s dedicated Law Librarian, with the Law Library holding an extensive selection of legal materials and online services such as Lexis and Westlaw. Research Strengths Staff research interests cover a wide range of themes, including: • Shipping Law • International Trade Law • Commercial Law • International Commercial Law • World Trade Law • Legal Theory • Global Legal Order • Criminal Law and Evidence • Criminal Justice and Criminology • Human Rights Law • European Law • Public and Administrative Law • Ethics and Philosophy • Environmental Law • Private International Law • Public International Law • Socio-Legal Studies We are an approved research training pathway in the Welsh Doctoral Centre. Research Centres and Institutes The School is home to five research centres, which provide effective vehicles for the promotion of research within their respective areas of specialism. The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law was established in 2000 and exists as a specialist research and professional training centre. Promoting research and teaching of the highest standard in the fields of international shipping and trade law, the Institute also fosters cooperation with other academic institutions and professional, commercial, shipping, insurance and business organisations. The Centre for Environmental and Energy Law and Policy (CEELP) promotes excellence in research and teaching in environmental and energy law and seeks to foster links in its areas of expertise between academia and local and national governments, the community, industry and the professions. CEELP is affiliated to the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law which aims to promote sustainable development in law and policy within Wales and beyond. It provides advice to stakeholders in the sector and to decision makers on environment and energy related policy areas of the Welsh Government. Sefydliad Hywel Dda – The Hywel Dda Institute provides leadership, direction, coordination and visibility for research within the School which falls under the broad heading of ‘Legal Wales’. With a commitment to interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research, its intellectual remit includes constitutional law and devolution, the statutory output of the National Assembly of Wales within its fields of competence, bilingualism and language rights, law and policy, legal history, the application of international, European and UK domestic law in Wales. Its mission is to contribute to the maintenance and development of Legal Wales by promoting and facilitating research and scholarship which reaches levels of excellence measured against the highest international standards. Prif swyddogaeth Sefydliad Hywel Dda yw hyrwyddo ymchwil ac iddo ragoriaeth ryngwladol sydd yn ymwneud â dimensiwn Cymreig y gyfraith, a thrwy hynny gyfrannu tuag at gynnal a datblygu ‘Cymru’r Gyfraith’. Bydd gan y Sefydliad rôl arbennig wrth ddatblygu ysgolheictod cyfrwng-Cymraeg o fewn Prifysgol Abertawe ac yn genedlaethol. The focus of the Richard Price Centre is the recognition that global questions need to be approached as a matter of multilevel governance comprising the international, the European and regional, the national and the subnational levels. The Centre will address this governance problem primarily from a legal perspective but in full realisation of the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the concept of multi-level governance. The Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology – See page 104 for further information. 122 123
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