The Department of History's research environment has benefited from significant investment over the past decade or so. Nine new appointments have been made in subjects such as medieval Scottish History, modern European History, Asian and African history, the history of medicine/health and oral history.
Major grants have been awarded to staff members by the ESRC, the AHRC, the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust to carry out research, and publications from the Department have been shortlisted for prizes such as the Longman / History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Whitfield Prize. Regular meetings organised by the Department include Scottish history, Modern European history, health history and oral history seminars and the annual meeting of the Conference on Modern British History for Scotland, Northern Ireland and North Britain. The annual convention of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the UK Oral History have recently been organised through the History Department at University of Strathclyde.
The department offers supervision for prospective postgraduates undertaking MRes, MPhil and PhD degrees in research areas relating to history staff specialisms as well as several PG instructional courses - the MSc/Diploma Historical Studies, The MSc/Diploma in the North Atlantic World, c900-1800, the MSc/Diploma in Social History, the MSc/Diploma/Certificate in Health History and the MA in Comparative History (taught at Central Michigan University for UK originating students). We also support PG research in Czechoslovak history through our partnership in the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies. For further details follow the appropriate links on this site and / or contact the Director of Post-Graduate Affairs.
Director of Post-Graduate Affairs: Professor Arthur McIvor
Prospective Postgraduates
Postgraduate Handbook 2010/2011
MSc Historical Studies
MSc Historical Studies Handbook
MSc/Diploma in the North Atlantic World, C900-1800
MSc/PG Dip Social History
MSc/PgDip Social History Handbook 2010-2011
MSc in Health History
MA at CMU 2010
PG Training and Research in Oral History