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Following on from last week's good news, congratulations also to Lisanne Winslow who has successfully passed her viva!

Congratulations to PhD Divinity students Justin Pritchett and Markus Nikkanen who both passed their vivas this week!

UoA historians Professor Michael Brown and Dr Colin Barr both contributed chapters to the highly prestigious four-volume 'Cambridge History of Ireland' which was launched this week in Dublin. Read more about this impressive book project here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/president-voices-fears-about-teaching-of-history-in-schools-at-book-launch-1.3479586

A history student from the 51cg has been selected to present a paper at a prestigious conference that celebrates the best of the UK’s student talent. Ruhi Singha will present her paper - ‘Why was Europe’s 20th century so much more violent than any earlier centuries?’ - at...

Done It! Congratulations to our History students who submitted their undergraduate dissertations. History staff and students came together on the day to celebrate the occasion with the School’s very first Done It! Day. Deputy Head Dr Jackson Armstrong spoke on behalf of the School and congratulated students on their achievements. Done...

The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy is pleased to announce that each of our disciplines have performed well in the Complete University Guide 2019 rankings. We're now ranked 11th in the UK in Theology and Religious Studies (up 3 places), 21st in History (up 7 places), 15th in History...

This April the Centre for Scandinavian Studies participated for the first time in the annual Bergen Postgraduate Symposium. Recently-completed PhD candidates Michael Frost and Beñat Elortza presented their research on, respectively, ‘Bishops and Witches in Fourteenth-Century Iceland’ and ‘Memory, Law and Pragmatism: The Institutionalisation of the leiðangr in Scandinavia during...

Congratulations to Heidi Synnøve Djuve (PhD candidate in Scandinavian Studies), who has received a prestigious stipend from the Swedish Women's Educational Association for the final year of her doctoral candidature. The scholarship is for research relating to Swedish language, literature and society is only awarded to one candidate per year. Read the...

Dr Andrew Dilley, Senior Lecturer in the History Department, was recently featured on Radio 5 Live on the 20th of April 2018. The recording is now available online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01dyz 

We’re pleased to announce that the 51cg’s Virtual Open Day for the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy will begin at 4pm BST on Tuesday 24 April. What to expect Learn about the programmes on offer and what studying at Aberdeen is like Hear directly from lecturers from the School Ask...