The Department of History at the University of Hull welcomes applications under the current PhD Studentship Scheme operated through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. There are ten full-time doctoral studentships available for UK and EU applicants and seven bursaries for international applicants from outside UK and EU.

The home/EU studentships provide £13,490 a year for three years, depending on satisfactory progress. Funding for conference attendance will also be available. The international bursaries will cover full tuition fees for full-time overseas students for three years subject to satisfactory progress.

Further details are available at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/pg/phd.aspx

Applications will be judged competitively within the Faculty, and the Department of History welcomes applications in any field of its research interests (for more information see: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/history_hull/research.aspx).

For further information on this and the Department’s postgraduate programmes please contact the postgraduate co-ordinator, Dr Julian Haseldine (j.p.haseldine@hull.ac.uk), or the co-ordinator of the MA in Early Modern History, Dr Thomas Biskup (t.biskup@hull.ac.uk).

For the first step of the application process, only a CV and short project outline will be required. For details see: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/fass/students/postgraduates/phd-studentships.aspx

The closing date for applications is 31 May 2010.