The Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS) at the University of Leeds offers a Bibliography Scholarship which is to be held by an incoming part-time Home or EU postgraduate student who has been accepted onto the PhD programme in the IMS. The scholarship is worth £6,000 per year (payable in instalments) and is available for a total of 5 years, commencing on 1 October 2010.

The successful applicant will work in the team producing the International Medieval Bibliography. He/she will receive training in the principles and practice of bibliographical classification and indexing in the different disciplines relevant to Medieval Studies, with particular emphasis on subject classification, historical geography, manuscript referencing and different linguistic equivalents of index terms. He/she will work under the supervision of the Editorial Director of the International Medieval Bibliography and will be required to compile and/or edit complete bibliographical records in appropriate areas of expertise. During the subsequent years of the scholarship the holder will be expected to work with a greater degree of responsibility and less direct supervision.

Applications for the Bibliography Scholarship should consist of a separate curriculum vitae (maximum 3 pages) along with a letter of application for the scholarship (maximum 2 pages). Scholarship applicants may be required to attend an interview and/or undertake a written test. Scholarship applications may be submitted either in conjunction with applications for the IMS PhD programme (for details see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/study/apply/) or at any point subsequently up to the deadline of 31 May 2010. Decisions about the award of the scholarship will be announced to applicants by mid-June 2010.

Applications should be submitted to Ms Alison Martin, Secretary, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Building room 405, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK (medieval-studies@leeds.ac.uk), from whom further details may be obtained.