Research Degrees
Research Training | Current Research
The University of Sheffield is one of the most active centres for historical research in Britain. Individual expert supervision is offered for research degrees in the following areas:
- Medieval British and European history
- Early modern England and Europe
- The history of colonial, nineteenth- and twentieth-century America
- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European history
- Fascist and totalitarian movements in twentieth-century Britain and Europe.
- Imperial and international history
- Social cultural and gender history
Sheffield offers a stimulating, friendly and informal study environment. We aim to encourage and motivate you to achieve your full potential. You will be encouraged to present the results of your research in papers to seminars and conferences in Sheffield and further afield. We will help you to seek publication of your work as appropriate. As well as working closely with your primary supervisor, who will be an acknowledged expert in your field of study, you will also be assigned a secondary supervisor, whose expertise will lie in a related field; he or she is available to offer a different perspective on aspects of your research.
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A welcome message to all prospective students from the Head of Department, Mary Vincent (WMA, 2.8MB).
| Research Training |
All of our students pursue a course of training. You devise your own programme under the guidance of your supervisor. If you have completed a suitable MA programme you will already have some training, but there may still be some areas in which you need assistance (for example in the use of particular archives, the handling of certain specialised sources, advanced IT skills, a foreign language or palaeography). In your second year, you may wish to take a course that would train you to work as a part-time tutor; in your third year you might look for advice on publishing your work as well as on completing and submitting your thesis on time. All doctoral students who have completed a training course are offered the chance to gain teaching experience as a part-time tutor.
| Examples of Current Postgraduate Research |
- Brave New World? Continuity and change in the design of the interwar suburb, with particular reference to garden design
- The Politics of Information in the Newsletter Collections of William Trumbull and Sir Dudley Carleton, 1616-25
- The Makings and Meanings of Homeland Spaces: a Social History of Resettlement in the Ciskei, South Africa, c.1960-1976A History of the Folk Song Society The Representations of ‘Race’ in British Science and Culture across the Eighteenth Century
- The Origins of the [US] War Refugee Board
- Print Culture and Responses to Crime in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
- The Repatriation and Rehabilitation of Britain's Far East Prisoners of War circa 1944 – 1950
- Foreign Policy of the ANC towards Southern Africa, 1960-2005
- The Tennessee Valley Authority and Environmentalism at the Grassroots
- Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain, 1918 to the 1950s
- Public and Political Representations of White Rhodesian Women c.1950-1980Property, legitimacy and rights: the impact of the mendicant controversy on the exploration and conquest of the early Atlantic world
- Acquiring America: The Diplomatic Battle for America, 1914-1917
- The SS Cavalry Brigade and its operations in the Soviet Union, 1941 – 1942
- Dreams Will Become Realities: The Dream as Religious Imperative in Early Modern England
- State-Private Networks and British Oil Diplomacy. A Case Study of Venezuela, 1941-1948A Study Of Working Class Homosexual Experience in the North Of England From 1895-1957
- Multiculturalism, National Holidays and Festivals: Canada in Comparative Prospective
- Consuming Politeness: Eating and Drinking Practices in Eighteenth-Century Sheffield
- Indian Foreign Policy, the West and Southeast Asia, 1945-1960
- League Memories: Recollections of Catholic Political Engagement in late Sixteenth-Century Paris
- From Consuming Passions to Passionate Consuming: How the Ideals of the Babyboom Generation were Assimilated and Subverted by the British Mass Media 1956 – 1979
- 'Goodbye Old Man', Myth versus Reality, A Study of the Soldier-Horse relationship in the Great War
- Morality in the Popular Music Press, 1967-1984
- The contested role of the Rwandophone communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the public political discourse of the Kinshasa -based printed press, 19901 – 2005
- Patristics in Jacobean England
- Communities of Religion in the Twelfth Century North of England
- The Antitrust Movement and the Bureaucratic State 1937-1968
- Under the nuclear umbrella: The politics of living and material cultures of apocalypse in Great Britain in the Second Cold War, 1979-1985
- The Rise and Demise of the New Britain Movement, 1932–1934
- Remembering Genocide: Namibian Narratives of Loss, Exile & Reconstitution
- Investigating Anglo-American Desensitisation to Genocide
- Visual representations of Napoleon III
- Algeria in France: War and Defeat in Republican Culture
- State, capital and colonial doctrine: the making of labour policy in the Katanga mining industry, 1900-1914
- The Nixon Administration and the American Conservative Movement
- Economic and Social Change amongst Post-war Professional and Manufacturing Classes in Huddersfield
- British propaganda on Malaya during the Second World War
- Between inspiration and institutionalisation: the vita apostolica between 1098-1215