The AHRC has awarded a grant of £45,000 to the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham and the Highlands and Islands for a skills training programme for PhD students and Early Career Researchers in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic and Viking Studies: Extending Academic Research about the Viking Diaspora and its heritage in the British Isles. […]
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Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Boyle
Dr Elizabeth Boyle has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for ‘Experienced Researchers’ in the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s M4HUMAN programme. Dr Boyle will spend two years in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork , conducting research on ‘The End of the World? Apocalyptic Expectation in Eleventh-Century Ireland’.
Continue ReadingCambridge students to open firework display at Midsummer Common
Wildfire Productions, which specialises in fire, dance and circus performance, is the brainchild of Newnham alumnus and former ASNaC, Frankie Dubery, and current PhD student, Jelena Aleksic, who are members of the Cambridge University Fire Troupe. http://www.varsity.co.uk/news/3965
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