Fully funded PhD in Animal/Veterinary Medical History
A fully funded PhD in Animal/Veterinary History is available at the Centre for the History of the Sciences, University of Kent.
Professionalising animal medicine: the RCVS and Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881
AHRC-CHASE CDA PhD studentship with University of Kent and RCVS Knowledge (Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Trust)
The Scholarship provides Home/EU fees plus a maintenance stipend at the 2019/20 Research Council rate of £14,009 plus an additional £550 for Collaborative Doctoral Students. This enhanced stipend is to cover additional travel costs relating to the project.
· This collaborative doctoral award is jointly supervised between RCVS Knowledge (operating as RCVS Knowledge) and the University of Kent’s School of History.
· Located at the intersection of history of science and medicine and history of animals, this project seeks to understand the reasons for and effects of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1881. It examines how and why the medical treatment of animals came to be professionally delimited within England, and with what effect upon the human-animal nexus.
· Working in the RCVS collections and elsewhere, the student will have considerable autonomy to develop the project based on archival discoveries.
· In addition to developing their academic skills, the student will have the opportunity of working within a professional body at RCVS Knowledge. The successful applicant will have staff-level access to the RCVS collections and communicational and digital media training opportunities.
Full details at https://www.kent.ac.uk/