Subject areas:
History, English, Classics, French, German, Digital Humanities, Music, Philosophy, Theology & Religious Studies, Paleography and Manuscript Studies.
Funding type:
Study costs.
Stipend.
Research Training & Support Grant.
Awarding body:
Leverhulme Trust .
The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme will open for applications on 16 December 2024.
Award details
The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme 'Knowledge Orders before Modernity’ (KOM) is a collaboration between KCL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent.
The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme `Knowledge Orders before Modernity’ (KOM) is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. The programme explores the capacity of the handwritten word comparatively, after as well as before the advent of the printing press, outside as well as within western cultures. It seeks to challenge a conventional periodization which associates complex knowledge, complex archival mechanisms, and mundane recording with the development of western print culture.
The programme will fund three cohorts of doctoral scholars, starting in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Up to five studentships will be offered in the second cohort to start in 2025/26. All successful candidates will participate in a shared programme of visits, events, and discussions. Doctoral scholars will be registered at the University of their first supervisor, either at King’s College London or the University of Kent.
The programme has four themes:
A Technologies of knowledge (materiality, writing systems, layout, accounts, numerals, diagrams, ciphers).
B Embodied knowledge (scribal careers, training, personal mobility, professionalization, language, gatekeepers).
C Systems of knowledge (archiving processes, witness, memory, reading practices, recall, authenticity, compilation).
D Chronologies of knowledge (innovation, continuity, engagement with the past, responses to the present, reuse, forgery).
Applications are invited for KOM advertised projects or via an open call. For more details on the projects visit the website here: Projects - Knowledge Orders before Modernity (komldsp.org.uk). Applicants applying via the open call must demonstrate how their project aligns with one or more of KOM’s four themes.
Award value
Studentship covers tuition fees and an annual stipend at the UKRI rate. Plus up to £10K will be made available to support individual student’s research and training needs.
Eligibility criteria
- History, English, Classics, French, German, Digital Humanities, Music, Philosophy, Theology & Religious Studies.
- Pre-modern disciplines as above, plus Palaeography and Manuscript Studies.
- KOM studentships are open to UK and international students who meet the residency requirements as detailed on the UKRI Guidance document on EU and International eligibility.
- Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline, and a Masters-level qualification or equivalent which meets KOM requirements for research training. Applicants with relevant work/professional experience who are considering doing a PhD are also encouraged to apply.
- You will also be subject to meeting King’s admissions criteria and the award is conditional on the candidate being offered a place to study at King’s College London.
- Students who are currently undertaking a PhD are not eligible to apply for KOM projects.
Application process
To be considered for the scholarships Knowledge Orders can provide, you must have your sent us your expression of interest by 12pm, Thursday 27th February 2025 using the form that will be available on the website here: How to apply - Knowledge Orders before Modernity (komldsp.org.uk)
You will need to have already submitted your PhD application to King’s College London following the standard process.
Candidates short-listed for funding will be interviewed by the Knowledge Orders team in late March 2025.
Selection process
Your expression of interest to us will be judged on the basis of intellectual quality, feasibility and synergy with the consortium’s aims.
Contact Details:
Knowledge Orders before Modernity.
Email address: kom.ldsp@kcl.ac.uk.
Website: Knowledge Orders before Modernity (komldsp.org.uk)
Name of the Funding Provider: Leverhulme & King’s College London