PhD in Understanding Written Artifacts
Hamburg, Germany
PhD
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* there are rolling admissions.
Key Summary
About: Graduate School at Universität Hamburg builds on Manuscript Cultures doctoral programme (SFB 950, 2011). It admitted almost 80 doctoral students from over 20 disciplines, with 60% from abroad. The PhD trains researchers to specialize in the study of written artifacts in manuscript cultures, combining humanities and natural sciences. Cluster supports joint doctoral research leading to specialist degree (Dr. phil. or Dr. rer. nat.). Keywords: manuscript studies, codicology, paleography, textual criticism, digital humanities, heritage science.
Career Outcomes: Graduates pursue career opportunities as academic researchers, museum curators, archival specialists, digital humanities developers, conservation scientists, heritage managers, librarians, or cultural policy advisors.
The Graduate School’s support concept for doctoral students is modelled on the well-established structure developed in the doctoral programme ‘Manuscript Cultures’, which started with the SFB 950 ‘Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe’ in 2011. Since then, this programme has admitted almost eighty doctoral students from over twenty disciplines, sixty per cent of whom come from abroad, adding their expertise in individual manuscript cultures across continents to the programme. The Graduate School offers training and further qualification to postgraduate students who want to specialise in the study of written artefacts within their discipline. Thereby, the Cluster’s unique collaboration between the humanities and natural scientists allows for joint doctoral research projects on written artefacts while obtaining a specialist degree in the respective discipline (Dr. phil. or Dr. rer. nat.).
- Highly qualified, very motivated English-speaking international candidates (non-German citizens), in particular from developing and emerging countries
- candidates holding a Master’s or equivalent degree in any discipline concerned with the study of manuscript cultures or written artifacts, regardless of region
