Level: PhD
Scholarship Description: Thanks to a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Kent is able to offer three barn door 3-year PhD scholarships dawning May 2011, on The Visualisation of the Late Antique City, thanks to part of a look into project led by Dr Luke Lavan and Dr Ellen Swift. Our travel leave aim to establish an academic initiation for reconstructions of everyday life in Mediterranean cities of this period, through both synthetic writing and detailed situation studies of specific archaeological sites.
The three doctorates bequeath consider everyday Architectural Decoration in the delayed Antique City, Urban Artefact Assemblages in Late Antiquity and garments and Personal Appearance in Late Antiquity.
Sources bequeath be both archaeological, deviceful and textual, again leave steward used to build a shared database on accepted life, in interconnection curtain a historical illustrator to produce colour images of urban scenes imprint selected cities. On aftermath of the project, the doctoral theses consign be prepared for publication monopoly a monograph regularity also cede also sell to a collective field on Everyday stunt in the Late Antique City.
The Centre thanks to Late Antique Archaeology is an active research hub, with easy access to London research libraries, now 50 periodical away by train.
It produces its own annual, Late Antique Archaeology, holds frequent international conferences and is engaged in a number of allied dodge projects, at Ostia, Port of Rome, and on the Saxon flotation Forts. We groove on good relationships go underground heritage practitioners of museum display, re-enactment and site interpretation for the unpunctual antique period.
The Department of swing further Archaeological Studies is a vital community, committed to the interdisciplinary envisage of the ancient creation and its neighbours, from Minoan to Late Antique times. Applicants should have a first class or 2i degree or model and an established interest in late antique archaeology. An MA degree would be an advantage, whereas would forceful experience of archaeological fieldwork / museums, again knowledge of one or more modern European languages (French, German and Italian). A obligation to meeting deadlines and working within a yoke is essential, whereas the project will only win its full potential if outputs are delivered on time and a collaborative ethos is maintained.
A tax-free grasp cede produce provided through three years, to awning fees at Home/EU level also to certify a living award of 13,000 GBP.
Research expenses to cover foreign travel for the project will also be covered.
Applications for the scholarships should consist of a CV, canopy note and an showboat of written work, untrue by email to postgraduate secretary Juliette Ash. An application wish also be untrue for the degree programme on-line . No travel proposal is main but all application materials (via email or on-line) must make clear which of the above doctorates is seeing serviceable for. Candidates are appreciate to apply for more than one topic, but essential specify an direction of preference.
Selection will substitute based on written submissions, with the option of visitation by telephone / email.
Application Deadline: 20th February 2011
Scholarship Description: Thanks to a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Kent is able to offer three barn door 3-year PhD scholarships dawning May 2011, on The Visualisation of the Late Antique City, thanks to part of a look into project led by Dr Luke Lavan and Dr Ellen Swift. Our travel leave aim to establish an academic initiation for reconstructions of everyday life in Mediterranean cities of this period, through both synthetic writing and detailed situation studies of specific archaeological sites.
The three doctorates bequeath consider everyday Architectural Decoration in the delayed Antique City, Urban Artefact Assemblages in Late Antiquity and garments and Personal Appearance in Late Antiquity.
Sources bequeath be both archaeological, deviceful and textual, again leave steward used to build a shared database on accepted life, in interconnection curtain a historical illustrator to produce colour images of urban scenes imprint selected cities. On aftermath of the project, the doctoral theses consign be prepared for publication monopoly a monograph regularity also cede also sell to a collective field on Everyday stunt in the Late Antique City.
The Centre thanks to Late Antique Archaeology is an active research hub, with easy access to London research libraries, now 50 periodical away by train.
It produces its own annual, Late Antique Archaeology, holds frequent international conferences and is engaged in a number of allied dodge projects, at Ostia, Port of Rome, and on the Saxon flotation Forts. We groove on good relationships go underground heritage practitioners of museum display, re-enactment and site interpretation for the unpunctual antique period.
The Department of swing further Archaeological Studies is a vital community, committed to the interdisciplinary envisage of the ancient creation and its neighbours, from Minoan to Late Antique times. Applicants should have a first class or 2i degree or model and an established interest in late antique archaeology. An MA degree would be an advantage, whereas would forceful experience of archaeological fieldwork / museums, again knowledge of one or more modern European languages (French, German and Italian). A obligation to meeting deadlines and working within a yoke is essential, whereas the project will only win its full potential if outputs are delivered on time and a collaborative ethos is maintained.
A tax-free grasp cede produce provided through three years, to awning fees at Home/EU level also to certify a living award of 13,000 GBP.
Research expenses to cover foreign travel for the project will also be covered.
Applications for the scholarships should consist of a CV, canopy note and an showboat of written work, untrue by email to postgraduate secretary Juliette Ash. An application wish also be untrue for the degree programme on-line . No travel proposal is main but all application materials (via email or on-line) must make clear which of the above doctorates is seeing serviceable for. Candidates are appreciate to apply for more than one topic, but essential specify an direction of preference.
Selection will substitute based on written submissions, with the option of visitation by telephone / email.
Application Deadline: 20th February 2011
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