The deadline for this scholarship has now expired.
The scholarship will fund the Master's plus PhD.
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).
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 and Early Modern Studies - The University of Kent programme as well as then 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 kentgrc@kent.ac.uk. Please note that supporting documents must be labelled with your Applicant Number and sent in an email with KOM Masters' Plus in the subject header.
