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IASH Director Professor Jo Shaw reflects on the Institute's most recent pop-up forum on constitutional reform in Scotland and the United Kingdom.

The Chancellor's Award, crafted by Edinburgh College of Art students, and the awards ceremony program.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is pleased to announce that our Director, Professor Jo Shaw, has been recognised with a prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Research.

Professor Shaw accepted the award at a formal ceremony at Holyrood Palace earlier this week.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the British Council and Edinburgh City of Literature, is delighted to announce a three months residency in Edinburgh for Korean writer, Kim Ae-ran.  She will be based at the Institute and will have links to the Edinburgh literary community through colleagues in the Edinburgh City of Literature.

1.      The College of Humanities and Social Science has made available a new investment – via the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities – to support a number of international and interdisciplinary research groups. This new initiative is part of an active realignment of IASH to engage directly with the research strategies of the College and the Schools.

2.      The funds available will support two or three groups with up to £50k for an initial year (2014-2015) with the expectation of renewal for one or two further years, depending upon budgets and plans.

IASH has joined the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme – an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of 16 participating institutes around Europe.
The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars as well as from leading senior researchers. IASH is offering one senior and one junior fellowship under this scheme.
The application period is 15 April – 5 June 2014 for Fellowships in 2015-16.

Applications are invited for IASH Postdoctoral Fellowships and Bursaries in the academic year 2014-15.  The closing date for applications is Monday 2 June and full details can be found on the IASH website at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowships/fellowships-at-iash/postdoctoral-bursaries-2014-15/

We are delighted to learn that Dr Katie Stevenson - who is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH - has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Thomas Reid Medal.  The medal is an Early Career Prize and is awarded to Katie "for her outstanding scholarly work on the cultural and political history of late medieval Scotland which has established her as a leading international expert in the field and for her commitment to knowledge exchange".  She is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the Univer

The Traverse Theatre and IASH  are pleased to announce that this year’s IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow is the professional playwright and director, Clare Duffy.

As part of the Fellowship, Clare will be commissioned to write a new play for the Traverse Theatre on the topic of ‘Conflict and Reconciliation’.

The Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Clarisse Godard Desmarest has been awarded the 2014 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th Century Scottish Studies.  Dr Godard Desmarest is a lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the University of Amiens and will be working at IASH on her project on "Women and Architecture in 18th century Scotland".  She will be at the Institute from August to November 2014.

Applications are invited for the next round of IASH Visiting Research Fellowships (for Fellowships in the period June 2014 - September 2016) and for the David Hume Fellowship 2014-15.  The deadline for applications for both schemes is 28 February 2014.  Full details, including how to apply, can be found in the Fellowships section of the IASH website.