STUDENT BURSARIES FOR COMPUTING IN HISTORY TEACHING
The AHRC ICT Methods Network (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk), which exists to
promote and support the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities
research, is offering a limited number of bursaries to post-graduate
students who wish to present a paper at the conference 'Distributed
Ignorance and the Unthinking Machine: Computing in History Teaching'. The
conference takes place on 17 November at The National Archives, Kew, London,
and is organized by the UK branch of the Association of History and
Computing (AHC-UK).
Applications for bursaries are sought from post-graduate students registered
at UK Universities whose research interests are grounded in areas covered by
this years AHC-UK conference. These include: when and how you acquired your
computing skills, what support and training you had or would like to have
had, your perspective on the use of computers in history teaching and
identification of key computing skills that history graduates should have
and other areas which may be considered to be within the AHC's sphere of
interest. Applicants should submit a paper proposal via the AHC-UK website
in the first instance, see http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/conf.htm
The bursaries are intended to help towards conference expenses. Successful
applicants will be able to claim funds up to a total of £200 toward the cost
of conference fees, accommodation and travel.
If you wish to apply for a bursary please submit a proposal for the AHC-UK
conference in the first instance. You will hear if your proposal has been
accpeted by the 28 September. If you are successful please complete the
bursary application form, available on the AHRC ICT Methods Network website:
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html
If you have any queries about completing the form please contact Torsten
Reimer ([log in to unmask]) using the heading - AHC-UK Bursary
Applications - in the subject bar.
Bursary winners will be asked to submit a short report to the Methods
Network following the conference.
Please address any enquiries about the AHC-UK conference to
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