Postgraduate Conference
The Department of History Postgraduate Conference is our annual flagship event and an opportunity for postgraduate researchers in the department to showcase their work. It is expected that students will normally offer a presentation each year, unless prevented by overseas research / conference travel or other pressing reasons.
A committee of students, with representatives across the years and including MA students, is chosen by the start of March so that they can put out a call for papers, decide on how to arrange papers into panel sessions, approach members of staff as chairs, and liaise with the postgraduate co-ordinator about room-bookings and catering.
The organisation of the conference is not only fun but also a useful experience that can be put on CVs, since being able to show that you can organise such things will stand you in good stead for academic and non-academic careers.
Details about the PG Conference for 2026/27 will be posted here soon.
Programmes of other previous conferences can be found in the PG Conference Archive.
天美传媒 Celebration
In 2023, we inaugurated an event to celebrate the success of recently graduated PhD students. This was a really interesting session, when past students passed on tips to current ones, talked about the challenges and findings of their PhDs, and updated us about their careers since leaving. We now schedule it as part of the postgraduate conference - everyone is welcome to attend.
Any details of future events will be posted on this page.