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糖心TV Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme

We are delighted that the Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme, which ran so successfully last year, is to continue for 2014-15. Further details will be announced soon, but for more information in the meantime, please see the Scholarship . The Scheme is designed to promote access to Taught Masters courses for Home/EU students from under-represented groups.

• PhD studentship: A third century crisis? The composition and metallurgy of Roman silver coinage, Septimius Severus to Valerian and Gallienus: includes fees and maintenance at RCUK level (EU and Home students). Deadline for applications is 25 August 2014.
• : 10-month fixed term from 1st Sept 2014. Deadline for applications is 12 August 2014.

Congratulations to Kathryn Thompson and Simon Collier on their success in gaining Departmental/HEFCE match-funded fees and stipend grants to support postgraduate study. From September 2014, Kathryn will be studying the Taught Masters in Ancient Visual and Material Culture and Simon the Taught Masters in the Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome.

Congratulations to Clare Rowan, Michael Scott and Zahra Newby for receiving awards from IATL to support innovative teaching. Clare will run a project ‘Communicating the Classics via Digital Storytelling’, which will be embedded in the teaching of the second-year core module Hellenistic World during 2014/15. Michael's project, 'Approaching the study of Greek religion' will run as part of his module on Greek Religion in 14-15. Zahra's project, 'Seeing, experiencing, doing: learning the methods of ancient art through performance and participation' will run as part of the module Art and Architecture in Asia Minor during 2014-15.

Congratulations to Marta Barbato and Miriam Hay who have been awarded PhD scholarships.

Marta will be a Wolfson Foundation Scholar working on 'Coins of the Republican period (late third to late first century BC) circulating in Central Italy and the coin sample from the ’sottosuolo urbano’ of Rome kept in the Medagliere Capitolino' , supervised by Dr Suzanne Frey-Kupper

Miriam has received a joint University-AHRC scholarship for her research on 'Early Christian and Late Antique Aesthetics in Art and Text', supervised by Dr Zahra Newby