The Society's Post-Graduate Bursary Programme
The Anglo-Korean Society, through the Bursary Committee of the British
Association for Korean Studies, awards annual bursaries to post-graduate
students.
The bursaries are open to British students studying for a post-graduate degree at a
British university. Their programme of study or research must be largely if not
wholly focussed on Korea, past or present. For more details visit the
BAKS website.
Bursary Recipients
Academic year 2008-2009
This year, thanks to the generosity of our corporate sponsors, the committee
have been able to award two bursaries. The following candidates were selected by the BAKS Bursary Committee:
 Kevin Cawley
Kevin Cawley is a candidate for a PhD
in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield, where he also received
an MA with Distinction in 2006.
His PhD thesis, “Deconstructing Sagehood
(聖學) on the Way to Shangdi (上帝): Tasan’s Monotheistic Odyssey,” aims to
investigate to what extent Tasan 茶山 Chŏng Yagyong’s 丁若鏞 (1762-1836)
philosophy was influenced by Catholic doctrine.
During the academic
session 2008-09, Kevin is in Korea conducting research on Confucian
texts in Sungkyunkwan University, and Catholic texts in Sogang
University, both in Seoul.
Read what Kevin says about his work and an overview of his
research topic:
download pdf
 Ben Jackson
Ben Jackson is a candidate for an MA in Korean Literature at the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and is also working as
a translator in Seoul – currently on one of the Korean Literature
Translation Institute’s selected literary works for a forthcoming
anthology.
After graduating with a BA in Korean Studies with Japanese
from the University of Sheffield (England) in 2004, Ben worked in
Sheffield on two documentary films about North Korea, before moving to
South Korea in 2006.
Ben intends to use the Anglo-Korean Society Bursary for a forthcoming
project on pohosu, or “protected trees” in the Seoul area, including an
investigation into famous historical and literary trees, resulting in a
paper on the subject and setting a course for further research on and
translation of material concerning natural history and literature.
Academic Year 2007 - 2008
 Beccy Kennedy
Beccy Kennedy is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan
University. The AKS Bursary enabled her to spend two weeks in South
Korea during August 2007 and was very beneficial in her study of contemporary Korean
art.
Read her
report
on her visit to Korea, which she presented to the AKS AGM in January
2008.
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