Subject areas:
Medieval Studies
Funding type:
Tuition fee.
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.
Award details
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 funds up to three MA candidates who will progress to a doctorate connected with the programme. Doctoral 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).
Award value
- Tuition Fees - covered in full
- Stipend - UKRI base level - £19,237 in 2024/25
- Research & Training - up to £10,000 will be made available to support individual student’s research and training needs during the Ph.D.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants for MA in Medieval Studies
- Postgraduate Taught (Master's Level of Study)
- Open to students from under-represented groups who meet specified criteria: Master's Plus - Knowledge Orders before Modernity (komldsp.org.uk).
The scholarship will fund the Master's plus Ph.D.
Award conditions
Master's Plus - Knowledge Orders before Modernity (komldsp.org.uk)
Application process
Applicants need to follow the guidance on the KOM website: Master's Plus - Knowledge Orders before Modernity (komldsp.org.uk).
You will need to apply to the MA Medieval Studies - King's College London programme as well as completing the attached Scholarship application form.
Applicants should complete the online scholarship application form, which will include a two statements of up to 500 words each.
Please email your supporting documents to funding@kcl.ac.uk. Please note that supporting documents must be labelled with your Application Portal Number and sent in an email with KOM Masters' Plus in the subject header.
Application closing date: 12pm on 12th July 2024
Selection process
A dedicated Knowledge Orders team will shortlist the candidates who meet the above-mentioned eligibility criteria. The successful candidate will be selected out of that shortlist by a Scholarship Panel who will issue its final decision.