University of Sydney
Postgraduate Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Humanities & Social Sciences
Postgraduate Research

Description:
A full-time postgraduate scholarship is available for a suitably qualified candidate with a good Honours degree in any aspect of medieval or early modern studies to undertake research leading to a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The project is to investigate attitudes towards death expressed by medieval and/or early modern writers, with a particular focus on the writings of condemned prisoners facing execution.

The position forms part of a larger research project on medieval and early modern attitudes towards death being undertaken at the University of Sydney through the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions (CHE). Other aspects of death currently under consideration by postdoctoral research fellows within the project include medieval attitudes towards suicide and early modern attitudes towards public execution.

Eligibility:
Applicants should have an Honours degree with a major in some aspect of medieval and/or early modern studies. They must have a demonstrable understanding of how to read and interpret medieval and/or early modern texts. They must have a facility with one or more medieval and/or early modern languages. Applicants must be Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents.

Amount awarded:
Valued at $26,000 per annum for up to three years, plus a total of $13,500 research and travel funding over three years.

Alternatively, if the candidate has applied for and is successful in obtaining an APA, the scholarship can be offered as top-up funding of $5,500 per annum.

Application guide:
Further information can be obtained from Dr Juanita Ruys, Medieval and Early Modern Centre, Woolley Building A20, University of Sydney NSW 2006. Applications should be sent direct to Dr Ruys , and should include a curriculum vitae, copies of academic transcript, and the names and contact details of at least two referees.

Closing date:
27 January 2012

(Thanks to Una McIlvenna, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The Medieval and Early Modern Centre, School of Letters Arts and Media)

Charitable funding requirement
Applicants are required to demonstrate that they have secured, and/or that they have firm plans to apply for, funding from charitable bodies to support their doctoral research. It is not essential to have actually obtained such funding, but you must indicate your plans to do so in detail (naming charities to which you intend to apply, etc.). The successful candidate will be required to inform Queen Mary of any charitable funding that s/he secures for the period of the Principal’s Studentship, and the equivalent sums will be deducted from the studentship accordingly.

How to apply for funding
Applications for funding are made at the same time as applications for admission. In order to be considered for funding, you need to submit:
a) An application, including the following:
Online application form – you can submit this either to English or to French, depending on the academic school in which you wish to be located (School of English and Drama, or School of Languages, Linguistics and Film)
Curriculum vitae
Transcripts
Two references
TOEFL/IELTS scores (if applicable)
Research proposal (1200-1500 words plus bibliography if you are applying to French; 3000 words plus bibliography if you are applying to English)
A writing sample in English, only if you are applying to French (flexible word length, but maximum 10,000 words)
Personal statement (optional but recommended)

b) A funding statement, indicating amounts of charitable funding that you have already secured (supported by documentary evidence), and/or the charitable bodies to which you have applied or plan to apply for funding. The total amount of actual or prospective funding must be no less than £15,000 over a period of three years.

Criteria
The criteria for the appointment of the student will be:
The strength of the candidate’s academic profile and relevant professional experience;
The quality and appropriateness of the proposal;
The ability of the student to complete the project on time;
The credibility of the candidate’s plans to obtain charitable funding. (NB no preference will be given to candidates who have actually obtained funding, as against those who only have plans to do so at this stage.)

Deadline
The closing date for applications from candidates wishing to be considered for funding from September 2012 is 31 January 2012. All shortlisted candidates will be interviewed, either face to face or, in the case of overseas applicants, by telephone or Skype. Applicants must be available for interview between 6 and 24 February 2012 (specific dates will be confirmed).

For further information, please contact Prof Adrian Armstrong

We’re looking for a manager with experience in developing software solutions in a library/academic environment for our UK-based software development team (4 staff). The company is experiencing significant growth at the moment and we see a lot of exciting opportunities over the next 5 years. To position ourselves to take advantage of this growth, we need to grow and develop our publishing platform as well working to improve the practices and productivity of our software development processes.

This position is for individual with 3-5 years of experience who would like the opportunity to take on challenging work and to further their career in management. You would work closely with our other software development teams based in the US and China and would be required to travel and potentially spend some time working with your colleagues in these other countries. You will be working alongside a peer group of very capable individuals and the behavioral requirements of the role reflect the importance we place on building an environment that challenges and supports personal growth.

This is a full-time position located in Stevenage, UK and offers a salary commensurate with experience.

Please send a cover letter, CV and compensation requirements to
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Key Responsibilities:
Software development – Leadership and management of software development projects to meet business needs. Developing a shared understanding of the customer deliverables is critical and will involve close collaboration with peers across the company.

Productivity improvement – Identification of issues within the software development lifecycle and implementation of effective solutions that improve productivity, working with the other managers to ensure Best Practices are agreed and shared across the department. This responsibility encompasses all aspects of software development including systems, processes, communications and training.

Staff development – Leadership of a team of software developers, including responsibility for hiring, training, coaching, developing and inspiring them to growth their individual capabilities and, in turn, the company’s.

Platform Development – Identification of opportunities to further improve/develop the company’s technical platform to better support business strategy.

Behavioral Requirements:
Engagement with our community – Our products and services are better than competitors because we understand how to translate user needs into an effective solution. The SDM will understand customer needs sufficient to contribute to a discussion about how technology can meet them.

Passion – We are passionate about the products we publish, and this translates into a closer affiliation between personal/corporate goals. The SDM will enthuse their team and work colleagues.

Ownership – We are able to achieve more than competitors because we take individual ownership for delivery. The SDM will deliver on commitments made.

Agility – We operate in a fast-changing environment and can only maintain our lead if we can move swiftly to spot opportunities to be more effective. The SMD will grasp situations quickly, formulate and implement high quality solutions.

Open Communication – We rely on open communication to ensure we quickly identify our mistakes/success and learn from them. The SDM will listen and contribute freely and welcome criticism and support without being territorial.

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Humility – Knowing that you don’t know everything creates the opportunity to learn. The SDM will imagine better ways because they are comfortable being vulnerable.

Skills/Experience Required:

Proven and successful track record in managing full SDLC in a LAMP based environment.
Experience of leading software development in agile environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational, time management and project management skills
Experience in developing software solutions in a library/academic environment

The following skills/experience is highly valued, if not required:

Hands on experience in developing in the LAMP environment using MVC model
XML
Working as part of a distributed development team across different timezones, countries and cultures
Audio and/or Video streaming

From Alexander Street Press:

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Required: 2+ years developing Web based applications
Required: Database design, development and object oriented programming in PHP (experience with Zend Framework or other MVC Framework), MySQL
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Required: Experience with unit testing and version control
Nice to have: experience in XML, Xapian Database, working with a global development team,audio/video streaming, understanding of Agile software development methodology, C#, SQL Server, Action Scripts

Other Skills/Experience:

Required: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to be able to interface with internal and external customers directly
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Required: Strong organizational and time management skills
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Please send resume, any cover letter and any compensation requirements to jobs[@]alexanderstreetpress.com.

Employee Type: Full-time, Salaried
Salary: Commensurate With Experience / Negotiable
Benefits: Paid Vacation, Holidays
Location: Stevenage, UK

Closing date:
Thursday 16 December 2010, 10 am.
Interviews will be held on Monday 20 December 2010.

1. Art and Culture in the Dutch Golden Age
This course introduces students to the methods of cultural and visual history through an analysis of Dutch art and culture of the seventeenth century. The course will analyse the cultural conditions (religious and economic) for the emergence of new forms and genres of art during the period. It will focus on the relationship between art and the market and the innovations in patronage and choice of subject matter. The course will introduce students to Dutch culture, analyse the emergence of diverse centres of art production (Amsterdam, Delft and The Hague) and finally focus on the work of Rembrandt and Vermeer.

2. Weimar Germany: Culture and Society 1918-1933
This course examines the social, economic and political structure of the German Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and the causes of its breakdown. Beginning with the circumstances of military defeat and revolution which surrounded the creation of the Republic, the course will go on to consider the reasons for its almost endemic instability and eventual transformation into the National Socialist dictatorship. The course will analyse the economic dislocation which beset the Republic and the strain which this put upon its programme of social and political modernisation, along with the cultural crisis of legitimation which the Republic suffered for most of its existence. The final part of the course will follow the rise of the National Socialist Party to government in 1933 and the measures it took to transform the Weimar experiment in democracy into the National Socialist
dictatorship.

The position involves
- coordinating and providing teaching in the above-mentioned field within the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes in History and, depending on the professor’s profile, within the Research Master in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies or the Research Master in Modern History and International Relations
- coordinating and conducting research in the field of the chair mandate
- acquiring external resources for research and internationalizing the teaching programme
- performing administrative tasks within the Faculty and where necessary outside it
- further cultivating and developing national and international contacts to benefit the teaching and research.

The full details and an application form are available here: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/RUG/vacancy/5901/lang/en/.

Found thanks to The Williamite Universe.

Established in 2000, the Institute for Philanthropy is the world’s leader in the field of international donor education. An independent, non-profit organisation, with offices now in London and New York, the Institute works closely with a global network of wealthy individuals and families, and in partnership with private companies, trusts, foundations and schools.

The successful candidate for this internship post will work with the UK Deputy Director to produce a detailed and thorough account of the Institute’s first few years and the activity that led up to its creation. The work will be carried out in London by research in archive material and recorded interview with the key people involved in the Institute’s inception. Particular attention will be paid to the US – UK – Antipodean partnership and vision of founding individuals. The work will result in a monograph to be published and available on the Institute’s website.

If you are interested in applying for this position or have any further questions please contact Emma Campbell. The closing date for applications is 8 March 2010, and full details can be found here.

Applications are invited for Visiting Research Fellowships of between two and six months, tenable in the period: June 2010-September 2012. No limitation is placed on the area of research within the Humanities and Social Sciences but priority is given to those whose work falls within the scope of one of the Institute’s current Research Themes:

* Dialogues of Enlightenment
* Translations, Adaptations and Modalities
* Theory in Practice, Practice in Theory
* The Academic and the Civic
* Dialogues with Hume (from September 2010)
* Atmospheres and Atmospherics (from May 2011)

The Institute is housed in an 18th century courtyard close to the University Library and about 20 scholars are in residence at any time. Fellows are allocated a private office in the Institute with all the usual research facilities and are expected to play a full part in the activities of the Institute. They are also encouraged to develop their contacts with colleagues within the College of Humanities and Social Science. They give at least one seminar on their current research work during their tenure. The Fellowships are not funded.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 26 February 2010. You can find more details about the Fellowhips and information about how to apply at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/visiting.fellowships.html.

The Society for Renaissance Studies has launched a new scheme for conference funding, in addition to their previous provision. We are now offering two grants of up to £1,500 each to support conferences or colloquia within the field of Renaissance Studies planned for calendar year 1 January 2011-31 December 2011 and held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. These awards will not be made to individuals to attend conferences, but to the organizers of conferences to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students.

The closing date for the receipt of applications to support conferences in 2011 is 31 January 2010 and further details, including application forms can be found here.

As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor, the Istanbul Bilgi University, and Routledge, the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of the late Charles Schmitt to intellectual history. The prize is £500, £50 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s membership of ISIH with a subscription to Intellectual History Review. The paper awarded the prize will be published in Intellectual History Review.

Submissions will be accepted in any area of intellectual history, broadly construed, 1500 to the present, including the historiography of intellectual history. Because it is a condition of the award that the paper awarded the prize will be published in IHR submissions should not have been accepted for publication elsewhere. Eligibility is restricted to graduate students and those who have submitted their PhD within two years of the closing date of the prize.

The paper should be forwarded as an email attachment to: Stephen Gaukroger and to Stephen Clucas. The email itself should state that the paper is being entered for the prize, and should confirm eligibility at the time of submission, as well as the availability of the paper for publication. The closing date for the prize is 31 December 2009, and the announcement of the award will be made in early 2010.