{"id":4671,"date":"2015-08-06T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4671"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:37:41","slug":"fwo-award-phd-student-fellowship-to-work-on-saxon-shore-forts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/08\/06\/fwo-award-phd-student-fellowship-to-work-on-saxon-shore-forts\/","title":{"rendered":"FWO award PhD student fellowship to work on Saxon shore forts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sofie Vanhoutte, who is studying for her PhD in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/research-classical-archaeological-studies.html\">Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, has received a Special PhD Fellowship from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwo.be\/en\/\">Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek \u2013 Vlaanderen (FWO)<\/a>, the research foundation of Flanders.<\/p>\n<p>Sofie\u2019s research project at Kent is on \u2018Transformations in Military &#8220;Identities&#8221; in the Roman North Sea Frontier Zone\u2019, focusing on the Roman Saxon Shore fort complex at Oudenburg near Ostend, supervised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/willis.html\">Dr Steve Willis<\/a>. The FWO scholarship will enable Sofie to take a sabbatical from her work at the Flanders Heritage Agency as she writes up her final thesis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ovc\/executivegroup\/executivebiographies\/provicechancellorresearch.html\">Professor Philippe De Wilde<\/a>, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise at Kent, said of the award: \u2018The FWO is very selective, so this is a great achievement.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On receiving the award, Sofie said: \u2018I\u2019m thrilled: this year gives me the extra time needed to write up all my research. That the FWO values my project, is a great motivation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For more details about FWO PhD Fellowships, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwo.be\/en\/faq\/phd-fellowships\/\">www.fwo.be\/en\/faq\/phd-fellowships\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofie Vanhoutte, who is studying for her PhD in Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, has received a Special PhD Fellowship from the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/08\/06\/fwo-award-phd-student-fellowship-to-work-on-saxon-shore-forts\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4671\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}