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Power, Postan and Tawney Research Fellowships Session 2008-09
The Economic History Society, in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, offers up to four one-year Research Fellowships in Economic/Social History, tenable at the Institute. Fellows will not be required to be resident in London but should participate in the activities of the Institute by attendance at - and the presentation of a paper to - an appropriate seminar series and by networking with fellow scholars. They must be affiliated to a UK university for the period of their Fellowship.
The Fellowships will be paid at the ESRC level in the session 2008-09. As a guideline, the ESRC level for 2007-08 was £14,600 per annum for students enrolled in London and £12,600 for those outside. The stipend will be payable in four instalments through the Institute. In addition, the Economic History Society will fund travel costs for each Research Fellow for up to four visits to the Institute of Historical Research during the period of their Fellowship, subject to provision of receipts and the Society's standard procedures for funding travelling expenses. The Fellowships are open to candidates with a degree from a UK university.
Candidates who are not UK citizens must ensure that they can obtain a visa for the whole period of the fellowship (1st October 2008 to 30th September 2009). Neither the EHS nor the IHR is able to offer any assistance with visa applications other than to supply confirmation that award-holders are in receipt of an EHS Fellowship through the IHR.
The Fellowships will be awarded either: (a) to postdoctoral candidates who should normally have recently completed a doctoral degree in economic/social history or (b) to graduates who are engaged in the completion of a doctoral degree in economic/social history and who must have completed at least 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time research. It is the intention of the Economic History Society to promote work of a kind that might be published in the leading refereed academic journals in economic/social history. Fellows will be expected to pursue research in economic/social history at an advanced level with a view to publication. These awards cannot be held in conjunction with any other substantial maintenance grant.
At the discretion of the Director of the Institute, Fellows may engage in teaching or other paid work for up to 6 hours per week. Fellows will also be required to submit a brief report to the Director of the Institute, and through him to the Society, on their achievements while holding the Fellowship and also on the subsequent progress of their careers in the academic year following the end of the Fellowship.
Applications - accompanied by a summary of the thesis, a one-page cv, and a statement, of up to 1,000 words, on work to be undertaken during the Fellowship - must be made on the prescribed form. Please collate and enclose seven copies of your application form and supporting documents. Send the enclosed ‘Letter for Referees’ and a copy of these regulations to two referees who know your work well, one of whom should normally be your PhD supervisor. Your referees should return one set of confidential references to you in sealed envelopes, which you must include in your application pack
An application pack is now available:
The Fellowship Office
Institute of Historical Research
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
E-mail: james.lees@sas.ac.uk
Download: http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/#ehs
The deadline for submission is 2nd April 2008. Interviews are likely to be held in May. Candidates for these interviews should not already have been offered a different Fellowship tenable at the Institute of Historical Research and for the same academic year.
Further Particulars (including recent award holders)
The Economic History Society’s objective in awarding the Fellowships is to further research in economic/social history by enabling new researchers to strengthen their research record with a view to following a career which will enable them to undertake high-quality research in the field.
Interviews and selection to the Fellowships will be by the Fellowship Committee of the Economic History Society, chaired by the Director of the Institute of Historical Research.
Candidates may be asked at the interview what difference a Fellowship would make to their prospects of sustaining research in economic/social history in future. Candidates should not be in receipt of a substantial award of financial support from another source.
Holders of Fellowships should acknowledge the Society’s financial support in publications which result from the Fellowship.
The Society seeks to encourage research across a broad range of economic/social history.
Recent award holders include the following:
2007/8:
Power Fellowship: Ayowa Afrifa Taylor (LSE)
An economic history of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1895-2004: land, labour, capital, enterprise
Postan Fellowship: Mark Smith (School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
Rubble to Communism: the urban housing programme in the Soviet Union, 1944-64
Tawney Fellowship: Jonathan Healey (Oxford)
Marginality and misfortune: poverty and social welfare in Lancashire, c.1630-1760
Anniversary Fellowship: Katie Barclay (Glasgow)
Marital relationships in Scotland, 1650-1850
2006/7:
Power Fellowship: Gagan Sood (Paul Mellon Centre)
Eurasia and the transition to modernity: the framework of mercantile relations; a cross-cultural trade in the Arabian Sea region, c.1730-90
Postan Fellowship: Natalya Chernyshova (KCL)
Shopping with Brezhnev: Soviet urban consumer culture, 1964-85
Tawney Fellowship: Nicole Robertson (Nottingham)
The impact of the co-operative movement on communities in the Midlands, 1914-60
2005/6:
Power Fellowship: Matthew Stevens (Aberystwyth)
Race, gender and wealth in a medieval Welsh borough: access to capital, market participation and status in Ruthin, 1312-22
Postan Fellowship: Emma Jones (RHUL)
Abortion in England, 1861-1967
Tawney Fellowship: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LSE)
The elusive quest for industrialisation in Africa: a comparative study of Ghana and Kenya, c.1950-2000
2004/5:
Power Fellowship: Philadelphia Ricketts (Liverpool)
A comparison of widows’ power, property and family strategies in Iceland and Yorkshire in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Postan Fellowship: Mark Rothery (Exeter)
The social transformation of a traditional elite in modern England: the landed gentry of Devon, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire c.1870-1939
Tawney Fellowship: Abigail Wills (Cambridge)
Making citizens: reforming the juvenile delinquent, England 1950-70
2003/4:
Postan Fellowship: Tracy Denison (Cambridge)
The extent of commerce and the land market within Russian serfdom, a detailed case study
Power Fellowship: James Walker (LSE)
The decline of the British motor industry: product design, advertising and gender
Tawney Fellowship: Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
Re-evaluation of the long term influence of the Ground Nuts Scheme in southern Tanzania
Anniversary Fellowship: Christopher Beauchamp (Cambridge)
The institutional and legal framework constituting the politics of the telephone industry in Britain and the US.
2002/3:
Power Fellowship: Julie Marfany (Cambridge)
Industrialisation and demographic change in Catalonia, 1680-1829
Postan Fellowship: Ben Dodds (Durham)
Using tithe evidence to consider shifts in agrarian output between the peasant and demesne sectors between the Tyne and Tees, 1350-1450
Tawney Fellowship: James Taylor (Kent, Canterbury)
‘Wealth makes worship’: attitudes to joint stock enterprise in British law, politics, and culture, c.1800-c.1870
Anniversary Fellowship: Sakis Gekas (Essex)
The merchant elite of the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-64
2001/2:
Power Fellowship: Rosemary Elliot (Glasgow)
Smoking and social identity among women in the twentieth century
Postan Fellowship: Martin Rorke (Edinburgh)
Scottish overseas trade, 1275/86-1597
Tawney Fellowship: James Davis (Cambridge)
The perceptions and reality of traders and commercialisation in medieval Suffolk, 1350-1450
2000/1:
Power Fellowship: Susan Wright (Sheffield Hallam)
Mass tourism as an individual experience: a history of package tourism, 1950-90
Postan Fellowship (split between 2 candidates):
(1) Ilaria Meliconi (Oxford)
From tools to machines and from workshop to factory: industrialisation in British scientific instruments, 1862-1900
(2) Mar Rubio (LSE)
The inclusion of resource depletion into measures of economic performance. Oil depletion in Mexico and Venezuela along the twentieth century
Tawney Fellowship: Jerome Destombes (LSE)
Inherited deprivation in a changing savanna. Poverty traps in north-eastern Ghana, c.1930-90
1999/2000:
Power Fellowship: Helen Macnaughtan (LSE)
The female workforce in post-war Japan 1955-75: the case of the cotton textile industry
Postan Fellowship: Tanya Evans (Goldsmiths, London)
Unmarried motherhood in eighteenth century London
Tawney Fellowship: Mark Freeman (Glasgow)
The history of social investigation in Britain 1870-1914, with special reference to rural life
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