Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What is the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies cordially invites you to attend the following event.


Wednesday 17 October, 17:30 - 18:30

Commonwealth Research Seminar Series: What is the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?

Professor Philip Murphy, Director of ICwS


Venue: Room 261 (Senate House, second floor)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

For further information, please contact ics@sas.ac.uk

Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies 2011

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Register of Commonwealth Research is a list of higher degree theses conducted at UK Universities and relating to the Commonwealth of Nations, its member countries, and the former British Empire. The Register has been maintained since 1949 and covers research both in progress and completed; its retrospective coverage extends back to the 1920s.


From the data held in the Register, the Institute compiles and publishes Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies as a snapshot of current research on the Commonwealth and Empire in Britain. The 2011 edition is now available.

In December 2006, the School of Advanced Study launched its online repository, SAS Space. This provided the opportunity, for the first time, to make available the files of the full Register. These are sub-divided by region and contain almost 17,500 records in total. The files are added annually and can be found online at SAS-Space.

The Register, and Theses in Progress, are compiled and maintained as a source of current and past research on the Commonwealth, and also as a point of contact between candidates for higher degrees in British universities. Readers of this directory may be interested to know about the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Professional Networks, set up to encourage communication on themes of relevance across the Commonwealth. These Networks are open to past and current Commonwealth Scholars, and to anyone with an interest in the respective fields. More information on the networks can be found at the CSC website.

Open Evening: Institute of Commonwealth Studies - MA in Human Rights, PhD Programme

Open Evening: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Summer Open Evening: Wednesday 22 June 2011, 3-6.30pm

We warmly invite you to our annual Summer Open Evening at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on Wednesday 22 June.

If you are considering studying on either the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights or the Research degree programmes, please join us at our Senate House home in Malet Street from 3-6.30pm.

The evening will be an opportunity to:

• Learn more about the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights

• Chat with MA teaching staff

• Meet with Research degree supervisors

• Hear about our placement scheme

• Make contact with fellow incoming students and speak to alumni now working in the field

• Gain invaluable tips on how best to prepare for life as a student in London

More information will be posted on our website in due course. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Troy.Rutt@sas.ac.uk who will send you further information.

Why Study at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies?

The Institute provides excellent opportunities for postgraduate study, through its Master’s and Research degree programmes.

Our MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is the longest-running multi-disciplinary and practice-oriented human rights MA programme in the UK. We have been training human rights advocates and defenders around the world since 1995.

"The MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights is a cutting edge postgraduate programme, achieving the objective of balancing academic rigour with a practical engagement in the field of human rights.”
(Nigel Eltringham, External Examiner 2010)

The Institute also provides supervision for interdisciplinary doctoral degrees, focusing increasingly on the Social Sciences, especially relating to Human Rights, Globalisation and Development, Politics, and Commonwealth History. Students can pursue their academic interests within the friendly and supportive environment of the Institute, enhanced by the outstanding libraries of the University of London, including our own prestigious library collection.

http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study.html

Professor Philip Murphy profiled on British Scholar

The US-based website British Scholar is running a profile of Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, as their ‘Featured Scholar’ for July-August 2010. Read more on


http://britishscholar.org/scholarofthemonth.html

New Institute of Commonwealth Studies website

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is pleased to announce the launch of its new website http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/



The new website, along with providing information about the Institute and its MA Human Rights and PhD programmes, has been expanded to include further information about the Institute’s fellows and more detailed information about upcoming seminar series and conferences.

Further content will be added to the website. An archive version of the old website's content on Library collections has been kept at: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/libraries/library.htm
Over the next few months some of this content will be shifting to the Senate House Library website, reflecting the Library's new physical location.

Trevor Reese Memorial Prize - competition open

The Trevor Reese Memorial Prize was established by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 1979. It is in the name of Dr Trevor Reese, a distinguished scholar of Australian and Commonwealth history, who was Reader in Imperial Studies at the Institute until his death in 1976. He was the author of several leading works in his field, and was both founder and first editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History . The Prize was established with the proceeds of contributions to a memorial fund by friends and colleagues of Trevor Reese throughout the Commonwealth and United States . The Prize, of £1,000, is awarded every three years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly-defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

The next award of the Prize will be in 2010, for books in the relevant field published in 2007 - 2009.

Previous winners include:

• Professor Andrew Porter, Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2004)
• Professor Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 (Polity Press, 2002)
• Terence Ranger, Voices from the Rocks (James Currey, Indiana University Press)
• Samita Sen, Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia: A History. Volume One: The Beginning (Oxford University Press, Australia: Oxford, Auckland, New York, 1997)
• Rod Edmond, Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, 1997)
• Professor David K Fieldhouse, Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1989 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994)

Authors or publishers wishing to submit titles for consideration should send two copies to Troy Rutt , Events &; Publicity Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies , at the address below, by 1 February 2010 .

Institute of Commonwealth Studies
School of Advanced Study, University of London
2nd Floor, South Block, Senate House
Malet Street , London , WC1E 7HU
T: +44 (0) 20 7862 8853 F: +44 (0) 20 7862 8813
E: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk W: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/

Register of Commonwealth Research

The full content of the Register of Commonwealth Research is now available to view on SAS-Space, the institutional repository of the School of Advanced Study. The Register is a list of higher degree theses conducted at UK Universities and relating to the Commonwealth of Nations, its member countries, and the former British Empire. The Register has been maintained since 1949 and its retrospective coverage extends back to the 1920s. Subject coverage is primarily in the fields of history, politics, sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, literature, language and religion. The subjects of education, medicine, law, science and technology are included on a selective basis. It includes over 17000 records and is current up to March 2009. Click here to view.

Theses in Progress 2009

Each year, the Institute publishes Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies, a list, derived from the Register of Commonwealth Research, of all current doctoral research into Commonwealth-related topics. The 2009 edition is available to download here.

Follow these links for more information about Theses in Progress, or the Register.

Commonwealth Matters Spring/Summer 2008

The latest issue of the Institute's newsletter, Commonwealth Matters, has now appeared. Click here to download a copy and find out more about new staff and recent activities at the Institute.

Library survey 2008

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library would like all recent users to complete the following survey, in order to help us plan and improve our services, so they best meet user needs. This is especially critical at a time of many changes for the Institute and Library.

There are only 10 questions and this shouldn’t take you more than 15 minutes. Please do click on the link below which will take you to the survey, and respond by the 30th of September 2008.
Click here to go to the survey

Register of Commonwealth Research

We're pleased to announce that we have updated the version of the Register of Commonwealth Research hosted on SAS-Space, our institutional repository. The updated version, current to May 2008 and containing over 16000 records, can be downloaded here. The Register is a database of Commonwealth-related doctoral research undertaken within the UK, with coverage extending back to the 1920s.

Each year, the Institute publishes Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies, a list, derived from the Register, of all current doctoral research. The 2008 edition is available to download here.

Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies 2008

The 2008 edition of Theses in Progress, the Institute's annual listing of Commonwealth studies-related doctoral research currently being undertaken at universities throughout the UK, is now available to download.

This list of current MPhil and PhD research is derived from the Register of Commonwealth Research, a database of theses completed or in progress. The Register contains over 16,000 records dating back to the 1920s and may be accessed via SAS-Space, our institutional repository. Its geographical coverage comprises the former British Empire (excluding the United States), the Commonwealth and its non-UK member countries, and former British Protectorates. The subjects covered are history, politics, sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, literature, language, and religion. Education, medicine, law, science, and technology are included on a selective basis.

Data for the Register are obtained from a variety of sources, such as printed lists, univeristy annual reports, information posted to university websites, and correspondence with university registrars and academic supervisors throughout the UK. This correspondence is of great importance in ensuring that coverage is accurate and as broad as possible.

Anyone currently undertaking doctoral research that fits with the scope of the Register is very welcome to contact us to ensure that it is included by emailing commonwealth.register@sas.ac.uk