PhD Studentship on the history of sexual science
Type: Grant
Date: June 12, 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Subject Fields: History
of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Literature, Social Sciences,
Sexuality Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies
A
PhD studentship is offered from 1st September 2016, in connection with
the project “Rethinking Sexology – The Cross-Disciplinary Invention of
Sexuality: Sexual Science Beyond the Medical, 1890-1940” at the
University of Exeter.
The studentships will be for a period of up
to 3 years, dependent on satisfactory progress, and will cover full fees
and an annual maintenance grant of £14,296 for 2016/17. Please note that this studentship is open to UK/EU students only.
Applicants
from all humanities and social science fields, engaging with a wide
range of approaches, themes and sources are welcome.
Rethinking
Sexology is a major five-year Wellcome Trust-funded Joint Investigator
Award project, led by Professor Kate Fisher (History) and Dr Jana Funke
(English) at the University of Exeter, seeks to reconsider the emergence
of the scientific study of human sexuality in the late nineteenth- and
early twentieth century. From the 1890s, medical doctors argued that a
properly scientific understanding of sexuality required input from
various areas of knowledge, including anthropology, biology, history,
literature, psychology, sociology. We explore the emergence of this
cross-disciplinary 'sexual science', which was driven by dissatisfaction
with exclusively medical approaches. In so doing, we aim to provide a
new history of sexual science and reconsider of how modern views of
sexuality were constructed.
For more information on the project, please see: http://rethinkingsexology.exeter.ac.uk
The project is structured around four overlapping and broadly conceived core themes:
- The cross-disciplinary dimensions of sexual science
- The global expansion of sexual science
- The relation between health and pathology, normal and abnormal
- The conceptualization of nature and nurture
For more information on the project, please see: http://rethinkingsexology.exeter.ac.uk
Prospective
PhD students are invited to apply with proposals (1.000 words) for a
three-year doctoral research thesis that addresses some of the core
themes and ideas explored in the Rethinking Sexology project.
In
addition to their research proposals, applicants should submit a
covering letter. This covering letter should outline past research
interests and experiences and explain how these relate to the proposed
research. Applicants should also indicate how their proposed research
speaks to the Rethinking Sexology project as a whole.
The application deadline is Sunday 12th June 2016.
For more information on this opportunity including entry criteria and how to apply, please see: http://rethinkingsexology.exeter.ac.uk/category/opportunities/