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Philanthropist and co-founder of the Lonely Planet, Tony Wheeler, has funded and launched a new series of PhD scholarships in the history of travel writing at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV.

New study of a Roman ash chest at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.

Many congratulations to all who have been recognised for their teaching via the recent WATE Awards.

Nancy Haijing Jiang and Michael Meeuwis were both short-listed and in the postgraduate group, Owain Burrell and Andy Irwin received a Commendation, and Elizabeth Sharrock was declared a winner.

WATE Postgraduates who teach

We are pleased to announce that Dr Doina Anca Cretu, Assistant Professor in Modern European History, has been awarded the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to work on her second project "Central Europe and the Making of the Modern Refugee Camp."

Dr Cretu will carry out archival work in Prague, Vienna, Krakow, and Warsaw.

Therese Martin (Medieval Studies, Instituto de Historia, CCHS, Madrid) The art of rulership, or material evidence for reigning women: Subh of Córdoba (d. 998/999) and Urraca of León-Castile (d. 1126)

Please note: Seminars are in person only. Everyone welcome. The seminar will be followed by drinks.

Dr. Rashna Nicholson, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at ÌÇÐÄTV, has been selected as a recipient of a 2025-26 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project, "How a Discipline is Born: Performance Studies, the Asian Performing Arts and the Cold War (1955-1995)".

The award, valued at £135,442.69, will fund the first extensive reassessment of the emergence of Performance Studies. It will delineate how the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation-affiliated Asia Society, Japan Society, and JDR 3rd Fund smoothed the way for many moves beyond Western concepts of literature, drama, and the arts, comprising Performance Studies’ ‘broad-spectrum approach’.

Through exemplary case studies of institutional grants and fellowship programs, it will uncover the multi-layered history of how policy makers, experts, academics, and artists benchmarked a transregional consensus on theatre’s role in civil society, thereby assisting the US’ rise to global leadership in the arts.

The British Academy's Mid-Career Fellowships are "designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences," according to the Academy's

A PhD candidate within our GSD doctoral programme recently presented a paper discussing the ethical and methodological challenges of her research at the Annual Western Society of Criminology Conference, which was held from 5–7 February 2026 in Denver, Colorado.

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The third edition of the University of ÌÇÐÄTV / Johns Hopkins University PhD Summer School took place at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti and the ÌÇÐÄTV Venice Centre from June 10th – 20th, 2025.

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