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Re-evaluating the 1980s and 1990s Through Life Histories: Politics, Privatisation and the Culture of Government Research

This project, based on oral history fieldwork, will consider how changes in the workplace that were driven by the politics of the period were linked to more general social and cultural change during the 1980s and 1990s. The specific focus will be on the working lives and careers of government scientists, whose workplace environments were transformed by commercialisation and privatisation.

This project is an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Library, where the student will be based.

Closing Date for Applications: 1 Dec 2015

Start Date: January 2016

Informal Enquiries

Dr Sally Horrocks, T: 0116 252 5070 E: smh4@le.ac.uk

Further details available http://tinyurl.com/re-evaluating-studentship

The next annual conference of the Association of Business Historians (UK) will take place jointly with the German Gesellschaft fur Unternehmensgeschichte on 27-28 May 2016 at the University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany.

For further information please see either GUG website: http://www.unternehmensgeschichte.de/

Or check out the ABH website for updated details: http://www.gla.ac.uk/external/ABH/

Please see the general call for papers: Call for Papers 2016.

The Coleman Prize for the best thesis in business history call: Call for Papers Coleman Prize 2016.

And last but not least the call for the Slaven doctoral workshop that precedes the main conference: Call for Papers Slaven 2016.