St Andrews Visiting Research Fellowship 2015-16
Call for Applications: ISHR Visiting
Research Fellowship 2015-16
The Institute of Scottish Historical
Research at the University
of St Andrews invites applications for the ISHR Visiting Research
Fellowship in Scottish Historical Studies, to be taken up during either semester
of the academic year 2015-16. The fellowship may last between one and five
months, with preference given to applicants requesting a longer residency.
The Institute of Scottish Historical
Research was founded in 2007 and draws together the excellence and expertise of
nearly thirty historians of Scotland, including Prof.
T. C. Smout, the Historiographer Royal in Scotland.
The ISHR provides an intellectual and social
focus for staff and a thriving community of
postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers working on all periods of
Scottish history from the early Middle Ages to the present. The Institute hosts
a number of events throughout the year attracting delegates and speakers from
all over the world, including a fortnightly research
seminar series, workshops and conferences with an emphasis on new
discoveries and directions in historical enquiry.
The Institute has several major
collaborative research initiatives under its auspices. On-going and current
projects include the Scotland and the
Flemish People project, the new Mediaeval
St Andrews project, the Scotland
and the Wider World Project, and the Scotland, Scandinavia
and Northern Europe Database. Past projects have included the Scottish Parliament Project and the History of the
Universities Project. The Fellowship is open to any academic in a permanent
university post with research interests in any aspect of Scottish history in
any period. It covers the cost of return travel to St Andrews from the holder’s
normal place of work, together with a substantial subsidy towards accommodation
while the holder is resident in St Andrews.
The Fellowship carries with it no
teaching duties, though the Fellow will be expected to take part in the normal
activities of the ISHR during their stay in St Andrews. For more information on
the Institute please visit the ISHR website at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ishr/.
You will also be invited to lead a workshop, give a research seminar paper or
other suitable activities depending on the length of your stay. Fellows are
provided with computing facilities and an office, normally in one of the School of History buildings.
The university library has
an exceptional collection for Scottish historians, including vast electronic
resources and excellent holdings in the Special
Collections department. Major national libraries and archives are within
easy travelling distance, as are the university libraries in Dundee, Edinburgh,
Stirling, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
You should send a letter of
application by 20 December 2014, together with an outline of the research
and/or writing in which you will be engaged during your time in St
Andrews. You should also enclose a CV, together with the names of two
academic referees, who should submit their references by the closing date. All
correspondence should be addressed to the Director of the ISHR, Dr Katie
Stevenson, by email to kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is
20 December 2014.
Further enquiries may be addressed
to the ISHR Director Dr Katie Stevenson (kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk)
or to other staff in
the ISHR.