Adam Budd BA, DFA, MA, PhD, FRHistS
Coordinator of Graduate Methods Training
Roles:
- Coordinator of Advanced PhD Seminar in Professional Skills
- Member, School Graduate Studies Committee and Graduate Board of Study
- Member, University Postgraduate and Staff Skills Steering Group
Room 2.19, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 3834Office hours: Thursday 10am-12pm; or by appointment.
Other affiliated schools
LLCAffiliated research centres
Scottish Centre for Diaspora StudiesBiography
I obtained my PhD from the University of Toronto in 2004, and joined
the School in 2006. I have held fellowships at the Wellcome Trust
Centre for the History of Medicine (London), Victoria College
(Toronto), and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(Edinburgh) as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Apart from lecturing and supervising dissertations on eighteenth-century cultural history and in Comparative Literature (to which I am cross-appointed), I direct the School's graduate training programme in historical methods. I am a member of the University Postgraduate and Staff Skills Steering Group, which oversees related funding, strategy, and activity across the three Colleges.
External appointments
I am cross-appointed with the Graduate Programme in Comparative Literature; a member of the LLC Graduate Board of Study and LLC Postgraduate Committee; and will be chairing a new College-level committee on the provision of graduate research training. I am Scotland editor of The Scriblerian and review for a number of newspapers and journals, including English Historical Review, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The TLS.