CNCS Early Career Committee

CNCS’s Early Career Committee is made up of postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career staff from a range of departments at Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria universities. The committee hosts workshops, research conversations, and the annual CNCS postgraduate conference. 

Early Career Committee Representatives

CNCS has representatives from Durham, Newcastle and Northumbria universities that organise and co-ordinate the postgraduate research events throughout the academic year. If you would like to discuss organising an event with them, please contact cncs@durham.ac.uk.

Reps for 2024-25

ECR Lead: Rafael (Ardi) Echevarria (Durham) rafael.d.echevarria@durham.ac.uk 

Members: 

Annabel Storr (Durham) 

Ben Thompson (Northumbria)

Jamison Hankins (Durham)

Jasmine Margalit (Durham)

Siobhan-Michelle Smith (Teesside) 

Suzy Corrigan (Teesside)

Support for Early Career Researchers

CNCS assists academics and postgraduates by helping them forge and develop new interdisciplinary research partnerships and networks. It offers advice and feedback from like-minded colleagues, and provides a number of activities to help stimulate their research. These include:

• Research conversations
• Postgraduate research conversations
• Administrative advice and support for conferences
• Peer-review and advice on developing and submitting funding applications

CNCS welcomes suggestions for conferences, funding applications or networking activities. The following are sample events:

• The Interdisciplinary Revolution: Re-Thinking Definitional and Temporal Boundaries in Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Research PG Conference  

• 'Nineteenth Century Now' Reassessing the Continued Role and Relevance of the Long Nineteenth Century PG Conference

• Hard Times for the Nineteenth Century and for These Times PG Conference

• 'Abnormality in the Nineteenth Century' Postgraduate Research Network

To find out more about CNCS research or to discuss a proposal for a research activity please contact: cncs@durham.ac.uk and a member of the Advisory Board will contact you.

Early Career Community

CNCS offers an active, supportive early career community to scholars from postgraduate to early career stage working in nineteenth-century studies. Please join the CNCS mailing list to stay up-to-date with CNCS early career activities and events. Contact cncs@durham.ac.uk

Review for Postdoctoral Applications

The Early Career committee is pleased to support prospective applicants to postdoctoral fellowships at Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria Universities.

CNCS postdoctoral fellows are always happy to read and comment on draft applications by prospective applicants to postdoctoral fellowships at Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria Universities on request. 

CNCSI ECR Committee

CNCS is connected to an international community of ECR scholars of the long nineteenth century through the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies International (CNCSI). We encourage CNCS members to collaborate with our international colleagues and co-host events. Contact Pramantha Tagore pramantha.tagore@durham.ac.uk  for more information.