News: September 2019
Dr Rebecca Thomas appointed as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Rebecca Thomas has joined the School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences from September 2019, working on a three-year project entitled ‘Writing the Medieval Welsh World’.
Publication date: 23 September 2019
A History Festival comes to town
Leading historians David Starkey, Lucy Worsley, David Olusoga and Trevor Fishlock seen regularly on our TV screens will be joining experts from Bangor University and across the UK to participate in the first History Festival being held in Bangor on 25th & 26th October 2019.
Publication date: 23 September 2019
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Publication date: 11 September 2019
Marzana Kamal’s Important Talk at the University of California
Marzana Kamal, a PhD Sociology and Social Policy student, recently gave a talk entitled ‘Wives Left Behind: A Study of the Impact of Men’s International Labour Migration on their Wives in Bangladesh’ at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publication date: 3 September 2019
WISERD to receive major funding from ESRC for continuation of civil society research
WISERD is one of four social science research centres in the UK to be successful in the highly competitive Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centres Competition. WISERD will receive £6.3 million as reinvestment into the continuation of its civil society research – the third major funding to be awarded in WISERD’s ten-year history.
Publication date: 3 September 2019