Leverhulme Doctoral Studentship: Women’s Work in Early Modern England – Call For Applications

The College of Humanities at the University of Exeter is delighted to be offering an excellent funding opportunity for exceptional researchers within the area of the History of Women’s Work:

  • One Doctoral Studentship funded by the Leverhulme Trust: all tuition fees paid and an annual maintenance grant for three years. The maintenance grant will be £13,863 per year.

Project Description

The successful applicant will work with Professor Jane Whittle on a Leverhulme Trust funded project on Women’s Work in Rural England 1500-1700 from September 2015.

The PhD project is specifically to examine women’s waged work using household and farm accounts from the counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will involve the detailed contextual study of at least 15 households and the workers they employed.

In their covering letter, applicants should demonstrate their expertise in early modern social or economic history or a closely related field, including their experience in archival research, and describe their interest in gender history.

The successful applicant will work as part of a team with Professor Whittle (the principal investigator) and Dr Mark Hailwood (research fellow) who will be collecting data on women’s work activities from court documents in a complementary part of the project.

Application deadline: 1 March 2015

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=1741