History MPhil; PhD - Newcastle Unive

Tuition Fee

USD 25,080

Per year

Start Date

Medium of studying

On campus

Duration

12 months

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Program Details

Degree

PhD

Major

History

Area of study

Humanities

Education type

On campus

Timing

Full time

Course Language

English

Tuition Fee

Average International Tuition Fee

USD 25,080

Intakes

Program start date	Application deadline
2023-09-01	-

About Program

Program Overview

Overview

As an MPhil or PhD in History student you'll join a research environment in which ambitious and original ideas can flourish.

Many of the research opportunities in history are interdisciplinary. They're available for most periods of history and in most geographical regions.

Supervision is normally available in the following subject areas:

Conflict, War and Genocide

North America (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Baker)

Russia and Eastern Europe (Professor S Ghervas, Dr R Dale)

Central Europe (Professor T Kirk, Professor D Siemens)

Latin America (Dr K Brewster)

Spain and Portugal (Dr A Quiroga)

Ireland and Northern Ireland (Dr S Ashley, Dr F Campbell, Dr S Campbell)

twentieth and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)

modern China (Dr J Lawson)

English Civil War and French Revolutionary Wars (Dr R Hammersley)

Gender and Sexuality

genders, sexuality, family and marriage in eighteenth-century Britain (Professor H Berry)

fertility, birth control and contraception in Greece (Dr V Hionidou)

history of imperialism and gender in modern Asia (Dr S Sehrawat)

gender, especially masculinity, in the medieval Islamic world (Dr N Clarke)

masculinities in early modern Britain; gender in reformation Europe (Dr A Morton)

gender and sexuality in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain (Dr J Andrews)

Global and Postcolonial history

history of modern China (Dr J Lawson)

history of medieval Japan (Dr P Garrett)

history of South Asia; history of colonial India (Dr S Sehrawat)

history of the twentieth-century Islamic world, especially Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)

history of the medieval Islamic world (Dr N Clarke)

world history, comparative perspectives across medieval Eurasia, Africa and the Americas (Dr S Ashley)

race relations in the United States (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Baker, Dr B Houston)

British imperial history, especially with regard to landed elites and technological transfer (Dr A Tindley)

Health and Medicine

classical, early modern and modern medicine, history of medical history as a discipline and medical humanities (Dr T Rütten)

history of death and sepulchral rites in Germany (Dr F Schulz)

early modern Britain (Professor J Boulton)

mental illness, psychiatry and asylums in early modern and Victorian Britain; social and cultural history of diseases and death; narrative, literature and medicine socio-cultural history of and death/mortality (Dr J Andrews)

health, welfare and poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain (Professor J Boulton, Professor H Berry)

mental health, psychiatry, asylums and deinstitutionalisation in modern Britain (Dr V Long)

history of the body; colonial medicine, military medicine and hospitals in India (Dr S Sehrawat)

military medicine in Soviet Russia (Dr R Dale)

famines, historical demography, public health, abortion, hospitals, popular medicine, medicine in modern Greece (Dr V Hionidou)

healthcare and healthcare politics in modern Britain (Professor G Smith, Dr V Long)

history of bodies; history of sexualities and gender; history of venereal disease; public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; medical ethics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Dr L Sauerteig)

Ideas, Religion and Historiography

early modern political thought and religious beliefs (Dr R Hammersley)

European historiography (Dr L Racaut)

Anti-Catholicism in England, 1500-1800 (Dr A Morton)

religion and identity, conversion to Christianity between 400-1100AD (Ms AE Redgate)

Islamist ideology (Dr W Berridge)

Buddhism in medieval Japan (Dr P Garrett)

medieval Islamic intellectuals and modern interpretations of the medieval Islamic past (Dr N Clarke)

fascist ideology (Dr A Quiroga)

religion and psychiatric/medical care (Dr J Andrews)

peace and peace-making in modern Europe (Professor S Ghervas)

Labour and Social Movements

twentieth-century French and British social and labour history; unemployment; social movements and protest (Dr M Perry)

labour and business history in the cotton industry (Dr B Baker)

work, health and disability in modern Britain (Dr V Long)

the civil rights movement in the United States (Dr B Houston)

civil protest and revolution in Egypt and Sudan (Dr W Berridge)

labour in modern China (Dr J Lawson)

Oral History, Memory and Place

oral history of health and primary care, family and community, ethnicity and migration, public history and memory in twentieth-century Britain (Professor G Smith)

social memory and oral history (Dr M Perry, Dr S Campbell)

oral history of famines, families, birth control, migration, ethnic Greeks from former Soviet Union, memory of famines (Dr V Hionidou)

oral history in twentieth-century US history, public history (Dr B Houston)

Scottish environmental history and land management (Dr A Tindley)

history of the Vikings (Dr S Ashley)

Anglo-Saxon England (Ms A E Redgate, Dr S Ashley)

Politics and International Relations

modern British politics (Dr M Farr, Dr F Campbell)

Anglo-Irish relations (Dr S Campbell)

modern Central European politics (Professor D Siemens, Professor Tim Kirk)

twentieth-century France (Dr M Perry)

history of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth century (Professor SM Grant, Dr B Houston, Dr B. Baker)

the politics of culture and sport (Dr K Brewster, Dr C Brewster)

maritime history, Russia and East Europe (Professor S Ghervas)

Urban Culture and Mass Media

satire and laughter during the ‘long Reformation’ in Britain (Dr A Morton)

history of the press in early modern France (Dr L Racaut)

history of mass media and journalism (Professor D Siemens)

eighteenth-century urban cultures in Britain (Professor H Berry)

seventeenth-century London (Professor J Boulton)

urban culture in the Habsburg Empire (Professor T Kirk)

twentieth and twenty-first century Britain (Dr M Farr)

urban reconstruction in Soviet Russia (R Dale)

print and material culture in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and France, history of the urban commons (Dr R Hammersley)

Find out more about areas of supervision for an MPhil and PhD in History

There are also opportunities for joint supervision with Latin American researchers in the School of Modern Languages.

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Program Outline

Your development

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) researcher development programme

Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

perform better as a researcher

boost your career prospects

broaden your impact

Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

You’ll cover:

techniques for effective research

methods for better collaborative working

essential professional standards and requirements

Your researcher development programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.

Find out more about the Researcher Education and Development programme

Doctoral training and partnerships

There are opportunities to undertake your PhD at Newcastle within a:

Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Being part of a CDT or DTP has many benefits:

they combine research expertise and training of a number of leading universities, academic schools and academics.

you’ll study alongside a cohort of other PhD students

they’re often interdisciplinary

your PhD may be funded

Find out more about doctoral training and partnerships

If there are currently opportunities available in your subject area you’ll find them when you search for funding in the fees and funding section on this course.

The following centres/partnerships below may have PhD opportunities available in your subject area in the future:

ESRC Northern Ireland/North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership

Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership

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Admission Requirements

Academic entry requirements

A minimum of a 2:1 honours degree and a Master's degree at Merit level, or international equivalent, in a related subject. We will give specific consideration to any independent research you do as part of your studies and/or appropriate professional experience.

You must submit two letters of recommendation (obligatory) and a writing sample, such as a chapter from an MA dissertation or a published paper (optional).

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