WISE welcomes bicentenary scholars
WISE welcomes 10 Bicentenary Scholarship students to the city who have been inspired to learn more about historic and contemporary forms of slavery.
The University of Hull’s Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation hass opened its doors to some of the brightest young scholars from across the globe.
Bicentenary scholarships were available to all students around the world, regardless of nationality or background, to study MA’s in Modern Slavery Studies, Diversity, Culture and Identity or Criminology and Human Rights.
The 10 recipients of the scholarships, who will who will have up to £8,800 of their tuition fees paid, will also be joined by other post graduate students from around the world wishing to study in the areas of slavery, emancipation, human rights, and social justice, both historically and in the contemporary world.
Professor David Richardson, Director of WISE, says: ‘In this, the bicentenary year of the abolition of the British slave trade, it is appropriate that we have made major investments in new courses and staff to teach them. We welcome, too, the University’s award of bicentenary scholarships to some of our students. The fact that we have attracted students from across the world reflects the global reputation that scholars within WISE has created’
Recently appointed staff include Professor Kevin Bales, President of the US NGO Free the Slaves, who will lecture on slavery since emancipation, Dr Judith Spicksley, a Nuffield New Career Development Fellow, whose work explores Debt and Slavery and Dr Daniel McNeil, a Lecturer in Black and Minority Studies, who is looking at how we conceptualise freedom in the modern world.
The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) is located in a listed Victorian building in Oriel Street in Hull’s historic Old Town next to Wilberforce House, Wilberforce’s birthplace.
Published: 25/09/07
