Northumbria University's MRes in Cultural Heritage

David Stewart, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature, relays new information about Northumbria University's MRes in Cultural Heritage:

We’ll be offering a funded MRes in Cultural Heritage for 2015/16 and are encouraging promising students to apply.  The advertisement is now live.

The deadline is fairly tight: 15 May.

There are three links to the application page via the MRes programmes in Arts, English and History, though it’s all the same studentship. Applicants are asked to develop a 500-word proposal for their project. As there is no MRes in Heritage Studies, they’d do the MRes in the subject area closest to them and be given a supervisor in an appropriate area. That said, it’s not just a chance to do an English, History or Arts MRes: the project must have a genuine heritage angle, and we’ll assess them on that basis.

History

English

Arts

Here's more from the announcement:

This studentship allows you to develop a dynamic and original project in the field of cultural heritage. Applicants may embrace an inclusive, open-ended approach to heritage research in History, English Literature, Arts, Cultural Management, and/or related fields, and should aim to design a proposal intended to maximise cross-fertilisation between disciplines and between the academy and the public. The MRes programme will allow you to work alongside students from a range of disciplines, developing and extending your research skills through tuition and support from a wide range of research-active staff in the Faculty. The studentship will culminate in an interdisciplinary thesis that will draw extensively on a wide range of approaches to cultural heritage. The MRes in Cultural Heritage is the ideal preparation for further study at doctoral level. read on >>>

John Hulme, Northumbria University MRes Student, and North East War Memorials

Tony Henderson, “Northumbria University Academic in Call for North War Memorial to Mark Women's Efforts,” The Chronicle, April 3, 2015.  (See also this post.)

Labourers at Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company.

A huge workforce of women produced millions of shells in North East factories during the First World War.

In addition to these munitionettes, thousands more women took over from men in a range of other industries and other jobs.

Now a research project at Northumbria University is launching a debate on whether women’s war efforts should be recognised by a regional or national memorial.

John Hulme, a Master of Research student in history at the university, is also questioning why so few women appear on North East war memorials.

He will present his case in a research paper, titled “Commemorating the Women of World War One, Never or Now?” at a Master of Research symposium at Northumbria University on April 27, which will be open to the public. read on>>>