Making sense of your research

by emgregory2020 | 14 Dec 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students

In this post, Dr Andrew Foster offers guidance to PhD research students about how to make sense of their research during the PhD process. His guidance offers to encourage students through the highs and lows of research, and poses a series of questions to support...

Surviving the PhD Process as a Self-Funded Student

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE

In this post, Dr Eilish Gregory, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Historical Society and an early career researcher, offers an account of her own personal experience of studying her PhD as a self-funded student. While there were many scholarly and personal...

Teaching Black and South Asian British Histories

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In the current political juncture, we are witnessing wide-ranging calls to decolonise the curriculum. Many are now campaigning to ensure that history teaching within the UK incorporates histories of British imperialism and, more specifically, Black British History....

Teaching World History

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

What does world history look like if you approach it through a BA History programme focused on the histories of Asia, Africa and the Middle East? What are the challenges of introducing such an approach to students who have, up until they join the programme, largely...

Supervising PhD Students: A Collaborative Approach

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

In July 2018, Professor Julie Anderson, Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, was the first winner of the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here she provides an account of her...