Research
The latest national Research Assessment Exercise (2008), in which 85 per cent of the staff were entered, rated more than 40 per cent of the History Department's research to be world leading or internationally excellent and more than 90 per cent to be world leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised. The research environment in History at UWE was judged to be largely excellent with some outstanding elements. Research student activity was judged to be excellent reflecting excellent support and monitoring practices. The esteem in which History staff at UWE were held was judged to be internationally excellent.
The research interests of staff members extend over a broad chronological and geographical range, from the fifteenth century to the present. Our interests incorporate British, Irish, European, Russian and African history. Themes include gender and women's history, business history, international, imperial, diplomatic and military history, social and cultural history, religious history and the history of crime. The Department has a particular concentration in regional history, for which the Regional History Centre acts as a focus. A long-standing and regular series of research seminars run throughout the year, which now include streams in Regional history, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Modern history. A vital contribution to this expanding research culture is its growing body of research students who work on a varied range of topics; several of who have received AHRC doctoral studentships.
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Research funding has been obtained from a wide variety of funding councils and organisations both in the United Kingdom and overseas. They include: the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), the Australian Army, the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, the Canadian High Commission, and the Australian War Memorial (Canberra).
Since 1993, the Department of History has invested approximately £30,000 of its own QR money to bolster its research infrastructure. This has meant that staff, and especially students at all levels of study, have benefited enormously from expenditure on microfiche, microfilm and published primary materials, which, in turn, has reinforced the Department's cardinal belief in the synergies between teaching and research. See more ...
