Welcome to Postgraduate Students in Italian Studies. The Society for Italian Studies is committed to supporting postgraduate students working in all fields of Italian Studies. Through its activities, the Society aims to foster a strong postgraduate community, and to encourage postgraduate research by facilitating exchange between academic researchers at all stages of study in the discipline of Italian Studies.

Postgraduate Representative / Announcements / Resources and activities

The Society's Postgraduate Representative is Rachel Haworth <r.a.haworth00@leeds.ac.uk> (University of Leeds).

Announcements

Postgraduate Student Bursary Fund

This fund is designed to support Postgraduate students by facilitating their attendance at UK and ROI conferences which are not directly funded by the Society for Italian Studies (i.e. bursaries are not available for the SIS Biennial or Interim Conferences). Bursaries are normally available for students giving a conference paper, but individual circumstances will be considered. In order to be eligible for a bursary, students must also apply to their home institution for funding and must have the support of their Head of Department. Please note that the requested amount for a bursary should not normally exceed £100. All applicants must be members of the Society for Italian Studies.

Postgraduate students wishing to apply for a bursary are required to submit their applications to Dr. Spencer Pearce (SIS Treasurer) by one of two deadlines each year: 15 December and 15 June.

12 January 2009. Winner of SIS Postgraduate Prize 2008 announced.

SIS resources and activities of interest and relevance to postgraduate students

Membership / Postgraduate database / Resource Directory / Annual Colloquium / Prizes and Grants

Membership

Benefits of joining the Society at the reduced postgraduate rate (£12.50 per year) include:

• two editions of the journal Italian Studies each year;
• access to the SIS and its academic contacts and support.

Please go to this page for details.

Postgraduate database

As part of the Society for Italian Studies's support for academic Italian studies in Britain and Ireland, we have compiled a database of current postgraduates in Italian studies, including their research interests and contact details. This can be downloaded in the form of an Excel spreadsheet here. Should you wish to include your details in this database, or if your details are incorrect, please e-mail the SIS postgraduate representative (Rachel Haworth - r.a.haworth00@leeds.ac.uk). Please note that we envisage that the database will only be updated twice a year.

Resource Directory

• Funding for Postgraduate Research
  • Postgraduate funding opportunities at British and Irish universities
  • General information on funding for postgraduates can be found at:
    • AHRC – Arts and Humanities Research Council
    • Association of Commonwealth Universities
    • British Council
    • British Federation of Women Graduates
    • British School at Rome
    • Caledonian Research Foundation
    • Delmas Foundation
    • IRCHSS – Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Dublin
    • Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London
    • Leverhulme Trust
    • Scholarship Search
• Forthcoming Events
  • AHRC Postgraduate Training Days
• Job Search
  • Jobs.ac.uk
  • Times Higher Educational Supplement
  • Higher Careers
• Computing Resources
  • Gateways and portals
    • Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Humbul Humanities Hub
  • On-line library catalogues (OPACS)
    • British Library Public Catalogue
    • British Film Institute
    • COPAC
    • Bodleian Library (OLIS)
    • Taylor Institution Library
    • Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane
  • On-line services – other databases
    • Italinemo – Riviste d'italianistica nel mondo
  • Text databases/archives
    • Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Oxford Text Archive
    • Biblioteca italiana (CIBIT)
    • Text Encoding Initiative (TEI Guidelines)

Annual Colloquium

The Society holds an annual Postgraduate Colloquium. The 2010 Colloquium will be hosted by the Department of Italian, Unviersity of Warwick on 5 June. See this page for details. The programme can be downloaded in PDF format.

The 2009 Postgraduate Colloquium was hosted by the Sub-Faculty of Italian at the University of Oxford on Saturday, 23 May. See this page for the programme and registration details.

Go to this page for details of all the Society's conferences.

Prizes and Grants

See this page for details of the British-Italian Society Rooke Memorial Prizes, 2009.

Please note that the deadline for submission for the postgraduate prize only has been extended until 1 October 2009.