The School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent will be supporting a number of excellent candidates for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships to be held in the period 2012-15. The School currently supports two Leverhulme Early Career Fellows and intends this year, as in previous years, to support exceptional candidates in the areas of Classical and Archaeological Studies, Modern Languages and/or Linguistics, Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Classical and Archaeological Studies at Kent has grown rapidly in the last six years. There are 15 full-time academic staff in the Department, whose research and teaching is focussed on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Europe including those of Egypt, Greece, Rome and its provinces, and Byzantium. There are defined research groups i: a) Artefacts and Society; b) Body and Being: Gender, Ethnicity, Medicine and Age; b) City and Polity; d) Documents and Texts; and e) Spatial Archaeology. Applicants in the area of Heritage will also be considered.
See http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/ for further information.
All potential applicants should check the eligibility criteria below and at http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/ECF.cfm,
if you are eligible in the first instance potential applicants should contact: Ray Laurence (r.laurence@kent.ac.uk)
There is an internal deadline for potential applicants:
31 January – CV and a 1 page research proposal should be sent to: Ray Laurence (r.laurence@kent.ac.uk).
