We are interested in hearing from students wishing to undertake postgraduate level work in Irish and Scottish Studies at the doctoral level. Please contact one of the supervisors below if you are thinking about applying for a PhD in their subject area.
Professor Jackson Armstrong: Supervision is offered in Scottish politics and landed society c.1300-c.1600; English politics and landed society c.1350-c.1500; aspects of medieval and early modern nobility, rulership, and law; aspects of medieval and early modern borderlands and peripheries.
Dr Bradford Bow: Supervision is offered in the intellectual history of eighteenth - and early nineteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment moral and natural philosophy; Scottish philosophical and literary societies; Scottish intellectual and moral culture in the age of revolution; intellectual currents of Scottish global Diaspora; the 'First' British Empire.
Professor Michael Brown: Supervision is offered in eighteenth-century British and Irish political identity and the development of nationalism; the Enlightenment in the British Isles; Britain and Ireland in the 1790s.
Dr Alastair Macdonald: Supervision is offered in later Medieval Scotland; medieval warfare; Anglo-Scottish relations; the Anglo-Scottish borders; and medieval Aberdeen.
