Russian History within the Northern Bridge Consortium

The Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It
brings together the cutting-edge expertise and exceptional resources of Newcastle University, Durham
University and Queens University Belfast and their Strategic Partners. It offers over fifty fully-funded
studentships per year to outstanding postgraduate researchers across the full range of Arts and Humanities
subjects, including Creative Practice disciplines.
The institutions within Northern Bridge have particular strengths in the field of Russian and Soviet History,
which members of staff are keen to build upon by attracting outstanding postgraduate students to
undertake their doctoral work within the partnership. Staff within the partnership are able to offer
supervision in all periods of modern Russian History from the Tsarist period through to contemporary
Russian history. Institutions within the partnership have also developed strong links with Higher Education
Institutions and Archives in Russia. The historians of Russia and the Soviet Union within the partnership
would therefore like to invite potential doctoral candidates with interests in their particular areas of
expertise to contact them to discuss possible funding applications. One of the exciting opportunities offered
by the partnership is the opportunity for specialist supervision across institutions, and we would encourage
students to consider this as an option. Full details of the members of staff and areas in which they can offer
supervision are given below.
Full details of the eligibility criteria and the applications process can be found at:
http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/studentships/

Potential Supervisors in the Field of Russian and Soviet History

Durham University
Dr Andy Byford, Senior Lecturer, School of Modern Languages [andy.byford@durham.ac.uk]
Specialist Areas of Supervision:

History of the biological, human and social sciences in Russia

History of the Russian intelligentsia, professions, and education
Russian human-animal studies.

Dr Sarah Davies, Senior Lecturer, Department of History [s.r.davies@durham.ac.uk]

Specialist Areas of Supervision:

Social, cultural and political history of the USSR 19171991

USSR in the Stalin era
British-Soviet cultural relations during the Cold War.

Newcastle University
Dr Robert Dale, Lecturer in Russian History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
[robert.dale@ncl.ac.uk]
Specialist Areas of Supervision:

The social and cultural history of the late Stalinist period (1945-1953)
The impact of the Great Patriotic War on Soviet society
The demobilisation and post-war readjustment of veterans in Soviet society

Professor David Saunders, Professor of Russian History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology
[d.b.saunders@ncl.ac.uk]
Specialist Areas of Supervision:

Russian Social History, 1796-1917

Ukrainian History (all periods)
The Russian revolutionary movement
Anglo-Russian connections (including but not confined to, diplomatic, commercial, ideological, and
military links).

Queens University Belfast

Dr Alexander Titov, Lecturer in Modern European History, School of History and Anthropology
[a.titov@qub.ac.uk]
Specialist Areas of Supervision:

Politics in the post-Stalin era

Intellectual history, particularly debates about Russian identity in the 20th and 19th centuries
Russian nationalism in the late USSR and post-Soviet Russia
Soviet and contemporary Russian foreign policy

Dr Katy Turton, Lecturer in Modern European History, School of History and Anthropology
[k.turton@qub.ac.uk]
Specialist Areas of Supervision:

The Russian revolutionary movement

Women in late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet regime
Women and family networks in the Russian Revolutionary movement.