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DURHAM UNIVERSITY – FUNDING FOR POSTGRADUATE COURSES IN PHILOSOPHY AND IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

The following funding opportunities are available for postgraduate students beginning degree courses in autumn 2011:

· 1 AHRC Doctoral Award
· 1 AHRC MA Award
· A number of Durham Doctoral Studentships (distributed throughout all departments in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
· A number of MA Scholarships (distributed throughout all departments in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
· 2 PhD studentships offered by the European Research Council to support the project ‘Sastravid: A New Paradigm for the Study of Indian Philosophy’. For further information, please contact Dr Jan Westerhoff (j.c.westerhoff@durham.ac.uk).
· 2 one-year Wellcome studentships for students wishing to study the history of medicine as part of Durham’s MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. The first award is to the value of £10,000; the second to the value of £5000. The closing date for applications is 28 February 2011.
· The Philosophy Department is also able to offer a number of £1000 and £2000 Bretherton Scholarships for 2011-12, which will be awarded to outstanding PhD applicants who have no other external source of funding.

Information on the AHRC awards, the Durham Doctoral studentships and the MA Scholarships including guidelines for applying, will be made available shortly at http://www.dur.ac.uk/arts.humanities/funding_opportunities/

For further information on any of the above awards, please contact Jonathon Gilderoy, Postgraduate Secretary, on +44 [0]191 334 6553 or philosophy.pgsec@durham.ac.uk

THE DEPARTMENT

Situated in the centre of a beautiful, historic city, the Department of Philosophy has a thriving postgraduate community, one of the largest in Britain. Our 17 full-time members of staff and 6 research fellows have interests and expertise in an exceptionally broad range of topics, from applied ethics to the philosophy of action, from Buddhist philosophy to aesthetics, and in the History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine. For more information, please see http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/

THE DEGREE PROGRAMMES

We offer four postgraduate degrees:

· PhD (http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/research/)
· Taught MA in Philosophy (http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/taught/taughtphil/)
· Taught MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (http://www.dur.ac.uk/hpsm.ma/)
· Graduate Diploma in Philosophy (http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/taught/diploma/)

POSTGRADUATE OPEN DAY

If you would like to visit our Department, do come along to our Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 9th February 2011. If you wish to attend this event, or would like more information on it, please contact Jonathon, our Postgraduate Secretary, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HN, UK; +44 [0]191 334 6553; philosophy.pgsec@durham.ac.uk

Rachel Simpson
Administrator/Outreach Officer
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
Wolfson Research Institute
University of Durham
Queen's Campus
University Boulevard
Stockton-on-Tees
TS17 6BH

Tel: 0191 3340700
Email: rachel.simpson@durham.ac.uk
Office hours:
Monday 9.00 am - 2.30 pm
Tuesday 9.00 am - 2.30 pm
Wednesday 10.00 am - 2.30 pm