Postgraduate studies
The Centre contains expertise on gender history from the early middle ages to the present day. Our individual research interests span topics from religion to domestic violence, the body to the home, representations of gender to social practice. We contribute a module on 'Gender, Politics and Power' to the Masters programme in History and offer research supervision for the degrees of MPhil and PhD.
As the largest number of gender historians in any Higher Education institution in the UK we offer prospective students a lively, supportive and intellectually challenging environment for research. We hold a regular seminar series and the Centre is now the UK home of the international journal Gender & History.
Our research students organise the Hufton Gender Reading Group which draws together postgraduates in gender history from a number of Scottish Universities.
Research facilities and support for research in gender history at Glasgow are unrivalled. In addition to primary source repositories in Scotland (National Archives of Scotland, National Library of Scotland, Mitchell Library) we have strong links with Glasgow Women's Library and Women's History Scotland, the principal organisation for women's and gender historians in Scotland.
Why you should come to Glasgow University for postgraduate studies and research on Gender History
The Centre for Gender History is the only centre of its kind in Scotland, and the largest one in the UK. Over a dozen academic members of staff from the History Subject and the Economic and Social History Subject are actively involved in it, as well as historians working at a number of other Subject and nearby universities. We also host a vibrant community of postgraduate students and researchers. Postgraduate students run the regular Gender History Hufton reading group. Many are also involved in Historical Perspectives, a group that organises a Scottish-wide postgraduate 'works in progress' seminar programme and annual conference.
PhD students in History and Economic and Social History are normally provided with office space, and have the chance to teach as Graduate Teaching Assistants on undergraduate modules. In terms of taught Masters degrees, we offer a team-taught course on 'Gender, Politics and Power', as well as a range of postgraduate modules relating to gender history.
The variety of research interests that the Centre encompasses is unique: from Late Antiquity to the 1970s, from Scotland and Britain, to Ireland, continental Europe and North America. Our research engages with the most recent debates and themes, including masculinity, gender and religion, the history of medicine, gender and Enlightenment, family history, and feminist movements. We engage with and supervise interdisciplinary research (literature, social and political science, art history). Since April 2010, the Centre hosts the journal Gender & History, the premier journal in the field of Gender History today.
We invite you to have a look around the website, which contains information about our recent and upcoming activities (invited lectures, work-in-progress seminars, conferences), our teaching, as well as research interests and recent publications by members of the Centre.
For more information regarding postgraduate study in Gender History at the University of Glasgow, including information about funding, please see the College of Arts Graduate School website.