Postgraduate research students

Roslin Kerr

0404865k@student.gla.ac.uk

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0007-1153-2124

Research title: Popular sovereignty in early modern Scotland: constitutional theory and popular consent, 1603-1746

Research summary

My project provides the first integrated study of early modern Scottish thinking on public consent and its relation to the sovereignty of the people. Increased calls for consent arose as Scotland navigated the 1603 regal union, highlighting the need to reassess the role of public engagement in the political transformations of this period.  

Grants

SGSAH AHRS Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship, 2025-2028

University of Glasgow History PGR Symposium event grant, June 2026

Conferences

CSCS PGR Symposium: Scotland Within and Without, April 2025 (participant)

University of Glasgow History PGR Symposium:  ‘A Kingdom in Perplexity: Visions of Scotland in the 17th Century’, June 2026 (co-organiser and participant)

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant in History 1A and History 1B