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MA Programmes in History
 
The University of Sheffield's status as one of the UK's leading universities is reflected in press league tables and university guides. Official quality assessments rate our teaching very highly, and confirm our reputation as a centre for world-class research. As a Masters student here you will join a population of more than 24,000 students, from 120 countries, and will work with a few of the more than 6,500 staff employed by the University. Our academic partners include leading universities around the world and our research partners include many major international companies as well as UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations. Sheffield University is a founder member of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), an international partnership of leading higher education institutions.
We currently offer the following taught History MA courses:
The Department of History is one of the most active centres for historical research in the country. We are committed to research-led teaching; in the last Research Assessment Exercise we were in tenth position nationally ranked by the proportion of our research judged 'world-leading'. The Department has a full-time staff complement of over 30 and over 60 postgraduate students. As an MA student here you will be taught and supervised by historians who are at the forefront of historical research. Members of the Department are actively engaged in a wide range of research specialisms, stretching from late antiquity to the late twentieth century. Particular areas of research-strength include period-specific specialisms such as medieval history, early modern England and Europe, eighteenth-century England and America, contemporary Britain and the United States, and fascist and totalitarian movements in twentieth-century Britain and Europe. Other areas of research strength are thematic and span several different periods. These include urban history, gender history, imperial and international history, and the history of violence, particularly political and religious violence. In some cases this work leads to collaboration with other departments in interdisciplinary research centres, such as the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, the Centre for Genocide and Mass Violence, and the Centre for Research into Freemasonry. Much research is also conducted through the Humanities Research Institute, and several history projects are currently based there. Members of our staff have played a pioneering role in making historical sources available in electronic form through a series of prestigious British Academy and Leverhulme-funded research projects; further information about these may be found on the departmental web pages here.
There are good facilities for MA and PhD students in the new Jessop West building. On each floor of the History Wing there are fully networked computers for post-graduate students, allowing free and unlimited access to many bibliographical services and the internet. You will also have access to microfilm readers and a scanner with text-recognition software. In the History Wing there are kitchens and social space which staff and students can use for coffee or lunch. The Department is a friendly place to study. Our staff make a point of ensuring that all graduate students have the opportunity to meet regularly with other postgraduate students, academics and visiting lecturers for support and the exchange of ideas. MA students are encouraged to attend the departmental seminars and the postgraduate discussion groups that have been established in different fields of History from Early Modern to Imperial and Twentieth-Century History.
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We encourage all postgraduate students to discuss their research work with each other. Last year's students played an active role in establishing a regular Postgraduate Seminar series. This informal forum proved popular with both staff and students and we hope to build on its success this year. There have also in recent years been postgraduate seminars organised under the White Rose scheme by students at Sheffield, York and Leeds. Watch your email and the postgraduate notice-boards on levels one and three in the Department for further information about these events.
The Department also organises a research seminar series: www.shef.ac.uk/history/research/seminars
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09 March 10
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