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Robert Frost awarded £67,500 by the Ukrainian History Global Initiative (UHGI)
Professor Robert Frost has been awarded £67,500 by the Ukrainian History Global Initiative (UHGI) to join around 90 scholars invited to contribute to this three-year project. The award will enable replacement of Robert’s teaching duties for the academic year 2024-25. The UHGI is an international charity, registered in the UK, whose aim...
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Aberdeen historian appointed as SGSAH Deputy Director
The University of Aberdeen's Dr Andrew Dilley has been appointed as the new Deputy Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
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PhD Dissertation Prize for Dr Ellen Packham
Dr Ellen Packham’s PhD dissertation has won The Sally Mitchell Prize 2024, from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Ellen’s dissertation, “Literary Constructions: British Engineers and their Journals, c. 1760 – c. 1860”, was supervised by Dr Ben Marsden and Professor Ralph O’Connor. The announcement from the Society may be found...
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Cecilia Brioni awarded the 2023 AAIS Book Prize
Cecilia Brioni has been awarded the 2023 AAIS Book Prize, for First Book, from the American Association for Italian Studies. This recognizes Cecilia’s Fashioning Italian youth. Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75 (2023). The award was made last week at the AAIS Conference.
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Art History Postgraduate Student's Outstanding Award
Congratulations to Art History PhD student Freya Juul Jensen, who has been awarded a Foundation Grant from Funds for Women Graduates. FfWG provides grants, bursaries and fellowships to women graduates to help with living expenses.
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Aberdeen climbs into UK top 10 and World Top 50 in new Impact rankings
The University of Aberdeen has been named within the top 10 universities in the UK and top 50 in the world in the new Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.
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Bill Celebrates Retirement with Prize for History Students
After 28 and a half years at the University, Bill Naphy, Professor of Early Modern History, is embarking on a new chapter of his life and, in celebration of his time at Aberdeen, has made a generous gift to establish the Hector Boece Prize for Best Performance in History. This...
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"From the Floe Edge": British Academy funding success for Dr Isabelle Gapp
Isabelle Gapp, Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Art History, has received British Academy funding for her collaborative project on coastal sea ice, working with Sarah Cooley (University of Oregon) and the West Baffin Co-operative in Kinngait, Nunavut.
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University sparks social change with £134,000 funding award
An innovative University of Aberdeen project focused on nurturing the next generation of social entrepreneurs has been awarded £133,887 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
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Two contributions to a new book on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives, ed. Stanley Simon Bill and Simon Lewis