M.Litt./Graduate Diploma in Mediaeval History
Destinations of recent MLitt students
Of the class graduating in 2008, three students are now undertaking PhDs, including two who have AHRC funded studentships at St Andrews and Oxford. A further five are looking to undertake PhDs in Britain or abroad in the coming academic year.
Other recent MLitt graduates have been successful in applications for PhD funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Alternative destinations apart from research degrees include museum work, teaching, and working and travelling in Peru.
Academic environment
MLitt students participate fully in mediaeval scholarly activities. There is a weekly seminar, with speakers for the present year including Dame Janet Nelson (London), Professor Gert Melville (Katholischen Universität Eichstätt), and Dr Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge). There is also a weekly postgraduate-run seminar, and regular conferences.
In June 2008 the MLitt students organised and held a highly successful conference on ‘Gender and Transgression’, and a second such conference is planned for 2009. The St Andrews Institute for Mediaeval Studies runs regular workshops in which PhD and MLitt students are important participants.
We also enjoy the benefits of longer visits from non-St Andrews academics and postgraduate students. Recent visitors include Professor William Ian Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan; Carnegie Centenary Visiting Professor); Professor Stephen D. White (Emory), and Dr Christina Pössel (Birmingham; Bullough Fellow).
