Postgraduate Bursary: History of Occupational Therapy
MA IN HISTORY OF MEDICINE
CENTRE FOR HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
We invite applications for the Elizabeth Casson bursary
for the study of Occupational Therapy education, as taught at Dorset House
School of Occupational Therapy for the academic year 2013/14. The Dorset House
Archive documents the history of Dorset House, the first School of Occupational
Therapy in the UK. It also includes material relating to the wider history of
Occupational Therapy education in Britain from 1930, and papers of the Casson
family.
For more information on the ARCHIVE see:
THE MA BURSARY
The bursary covers fees (up to £ 4,900.—full-time for one
year, including training in oral history; or 2 x £ 2,325.—part-time, over 2
years, plus £250.-- for training). The award is towards tuition fees
and oral history training only and does not include any allowances.
The bursary is a one off payment only; the award will not
be extended to cover continuation fees. The start date for a candidate’s
scholarship will be the start date of the candidate’s full/part-time Masters
course (in the History of Medicine) in September 2013.
For information on HISTORY OF MEDICINE AT BROOKES, see:
CONDITIONS
A candidate must have an offer of a place on the
full/part-time masters degree course at Brookes or fully meet all criteria for
study at masters level at Brookes.
For admission criteria see:
The candidate agrees to undergo oral history training as
guided by the
academic supervisor (History); to focus in her or his MA
dissertation
on the analysis of the oral testimonies elicited from staff
connected with
Dorset House during a period of original research (oral
history
methodology); and contribute to the administrative duties
(as directed
by the academic supervisor) connected with an international
conference on
the history of occupational and labour therapy held at Oxford
(in
collaboration with the Dorset House Archive at Oxford Brookes
University). The
candidate agrees to depositing two copies of the MA dissertation
and the oral
interview tapes (incl. any transcripts) in the Dorset
House Archive.
Candidates who have accepted one or more awards from
other sources of
funding which cover all their tuition fees are not
eligible for a
Taught Postgraduate Scholarship and must not accept an offer of
a University
Taught Postgraduate Scholarship. Eligibility for a Scholarship will
not be affected if a candidate is receiving funding towards
maintenance costs.
Scholarships are awarded to students enrolling in
September 2013.
Candidates may not defer take-up of a scholarship until a
later date.
APPLICATIONS
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Deadline for submitting complete applications is Monday 1
July 2013
(18.00
GMT). Please fill in the application form, which you can
find here:
Email the completed application form together with
scanned copies of
marks/degree results to Ms Poppy Hoole, Programme
Administrator,
History
and History of Art, Department of History, Philosophy and
Religion,
Faculty
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes
University, Gipsy
Lane,
Oxford OX3 0BP. Email: phoole@brookes.ac.uk
Please ask your referees to send their reports, by the
deadline (1 July
2013), to Ms Poppy Hoole. Email: phoole@brookes.ac.uk
CONTACT FOR QUERIES
Administrative: Ms Poppy Hoole, Tel: 01865 484220; Email:
Academic: Professor Waltraud Ernst, Email: wernst@brookes.ac.uk
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Professor Waltraud Ernst, PhD (London), Dipl-Psych
(Konstanz), FRHS
Professor in the History of Medicine, 1700-2000
Department of History, Philosophy and Religion
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford OX3 0BP
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 48 3478
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 483707