La Scuola di Storia dell’UCD invita a presentare domanda per un dottorato di ricerca quadriennale, completamente finanziato, sul tema delle donne irlandesi come investitori nella sfera finanziaria, 1700-1900. Il candidato prescelto entrerà a far parte del gruppo di ricerca SFI-IRC Pathway Grant guidato dal dottor Andrew McDiarmid. Il team si incontrerà regolarmente, sia virtualmente che fisicamente, e si impegnerà per il benessere e lo sviluppo della carriera del dottorando.
All’UCD, entrerete a far parte di una fiorente comunità di ricercatori post-laurea e a inizio carriera presso la School of History (Top 100 History Departments, QS 2022). In quanto membro della Scuola, il candidato prescelto potrà attingere alle competenze accademiche e utilizzare le eccellenti risorse disponibili. I suoi studi e la sua carriera beneficeranno anche del programma ben sviluppato di supervisione dei laureati della Scuola. I candidati avranno l’opportunità, se lo desiderano, di svolgere attività di tutoraggio all’interno della Scuola.
The Project
The role of women as financial investors has become an important strand of historical research since the turn of the century. Many of the works which have emerged have, however, focused on England, leaving more work to be done to uncover the extent of Scots, Irish, or Welsh women’s experiences of participation in financial activity. This PhD project will address the Irish aspect of this absence and focus on the Irish women who were active in the financial sphere. Irish women had the opportunity to invest in large-scale British projects, including the South Sea Company and the Bank of England, and in the Irish National Debt (including various forms of lotteries, loans and securities), as well as a number of new financial projects which emerged after 1830, including canal, rail, and provincial banking ventures. The extent to which they did is, however, unknown. There is also an opportunity to go beyond the usual investment class (middle/upper) and consider how the poorer classes used their money; this is of interest regarding the tontine, which often provided the opportunity for those with less capital to invest in collective schemes and engage in an alternative method of saving. The PhD research will therefore contribute to a wider historiography on female investment patterns, ensuring that gender/sex perspectives are integrated into the research content, and adding the Irish experience to the discussion.
The Studentship provides students with full fees, stipend (€19,000 p/a), and a generous research allowance for the four-year PhD programme.
Applications should be submitted to andrew.mcdiarmid@ucd.ie by Friday 29th September 2023, 5 pm Irish time. The application must include a CV, academic transcripts, two academic references and a writing sample (e.g. MA dissertation or published article).
For queries, please contact Dr Andrew McDiarmid at andrew.mcdiarmid@ucd.ie
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