Thinking about Postgraduate Study?

With over 50 members of staff, a large graduate community and extensive specialist library resources the School of History provides an ideal environment for postgraduate study.

For information on taught postgraduate programmes (graduate diploma, MLitt, MPhil) click here.

For information on funding for taught programmes and PhDs click here

Additional key benefits of studying as a postgraduate student at St Andrews:

• Research funds – individual allowances and discretionary awards
• Office space
• Opportunities for teaching

Dr Chandrika Kaul

Dr Chandrika Kaul to deliver a keynote speech at the sixth biennial conference of Australian Media Traditions

Dr Chandrika Kaul has been invited to present a keynote at the Australian Media Traditions international conference at the University of Sydney, Australia. (November 2009). Her talk will aim to identify and analyse those key developments which contributed to a resurgence of international debate over freedom of the press in the aftermath of the Second World War and in a period of rapid decolonization.

Forthcoming Conferences

The School of History will be hosting a number of conferences and workshops in 2010 including the biennial meeting of the Reformation Studies Colloquiumn, the Shahnameh and Persianate Identity conference hosted by the Institute for Iranian Studies and a Transnational Media workshop hosted by the Centre for Transnational History. Further details of all the conferences hosted by the School can be found by visiting the Forthcoming Conferences page.

Forthcoming Conferences

New Grant for USTC project

The Universal Short Title Project has now a new grant from the Wellcome Trust.

The Wellcome grant will underwrite a pilot project to analyse all medical texts published in northern Europe before 1601: a corpus of around 5,000 items.  In addition the grant will permit members of the project team to examine surviving collections of early medical texts in major British collections.

The printing of medical texts, both for professional users and lay readers, was one of the most buoyant markets in the early print world.  The project is delighted to have the partnership of the Wellcome Trust to push forward this important work.  The grant (£30,000) will permit the appointment of a research analyst, who will have primary responsibility for the examination of copies and the creation of a public access database.  We are also delighted to be able to call on the expertise of our collaborator, Professor Emeritus Iain Donaldson of the University of Edinburgh, who will work with the project team in the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, one of the most important of the collections to be investigated.

School of History ranked amongst the top in the UK for research and teaching

AHRC Block Grant Awards

For more information on applying for one of these awards, please follow the link to the AHRC postgraduate funding page.