Postdoctoral opportunities

Opportunities for postdoctoral scholarship related to the Parkes Institute exist through the Hartley Institute, established by the University of Southampton in 1993 to promote, facilitate and encourage research associated with the University Library's extensive holdings, including the Parkes collection.

Activities supported by the Institute:

Fellowships are available for scholars who wish to prepare studies directly associated with the research collections of the University Library, which should also contribute to the distinctiveness of their work. Study facilities, including access to networks, some administrative support, a common room and conference room are available to fellows. In exceptional cases, further assistance may be available towards travel and accommodation costs. From time to time fellowships jointly funded with local institutions or those with similar research interests may be offered.

In recent years, several Hartley fellowships have been awarded for research closely related to the Parkes Centre. For example, Professor Susan Tananbaum (Bowdoin College, Maine, USA) conducted archival research in 1994 on a project examining the anglicization of Jewish children, 1870-1945 whilst in 1999 Dr Ian Phimister (University of Oxford) researched the life of Sir Edmund Davis (1861-1939), a Jewish financier. Southampton-based scholars, Dr Katharina Hall, Dr Carola Scott-Luckens and Dr Ruth Gilbert, have worked on, respectively, memory in the history of the Holocaust and National Socialism, visionary projects and Jewish conversion and The Golem. In 2001 Professor David Weinberg (Wayne State University) spent a month in Southampton researching the history of the post-war Jewish communities in Britain and France.

Read the experience of Hartley Fellow Dr David Weinberg on using the Jewish archives at Southampton.