Postgraduate Fellows

Postgraduate Fellows are postgraduate students who conduct research through the Centre.

*We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Postgraduate Fellowship. Applications are due by 31 January 2025. Full details can be found below.

We are now offering a new Postgraduate Fellow programme for postgraduate students based in the UK or abroad. The aim of the programme is to provide time and space for research and writing on the Methodist, Wesleyan, Evangelical, Holiness, and Pentecostal traditions. The primary aim of the fellowship is to support MA dissertation or doctoral research using resources in Manchester.

The Manchester Wesley Research Centre library and Nazarene Theological College (NTC) library and archives will be available. If needed for the project, the MWRC will help facilitate access to the internationally renowned Methodist Archives and Research Centre at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, and the University of Manchester Library. Additionally, we can help you connect with faculty at NTC for dialogue about your project.

The fellowship comes with free accommodation on the campus of NTC for 2 to 3 weeks and a £70 per week stipend. (Requests for longer stays at the fellow’s expense will be considered as availability of accommodation allows.) All other expenses are the responsibility of the fellow. Since limited accommodation is available, residency for the Fellowship cannot be guaranteed outside the period from July to early September. If suitable accommodation is available, spouses may accompany the fellow, but will need to pay for the accommodation at a discounted rate. It is generally not possible to accommodate children in campus housing.

Applications should consist of:

(1) an approximately one page description of your research project, including the title, scope, sources, originality, timescale, and intended outcomes of the project
(2) a CV
(3) the name and contact details of an academic reference
(4) an indication (even if provisional) of your preferred dates of residency and whether you intend to bring family with you

Application materials should be sent to the Interim MWRC Director, David Bundy (dbundy@nazarene.ac.uk), by 31 January 2025.

*University of Manchester/NTC students are eligible to apply but the research time for this fellowship must be in addition to UoM/NTC required residency time.

For information on the related Visiting Fellow programme and the ‘Orientation to Research in Manchester’ guide, see: mwrc.ac.uk/visiting-fellows/.

Current Postgraduate Fellows

2024: Jean de Dieu Mampouya, PhD student (Clermont Auvergne University, France), project: ‘Interdenominational Cooperation and Social and Political Engagement in the 20th Century in England: The Case of Anglicanism and Methodism (1901-1999)’.

2024: Ben van Vuuren, PhD student (Africa Nazarene University), project: ‘Grace and Good Works in the Thought of John William Fletcher (1729-1785): A Response to Theoretical Antinomianism’.

2024: Eric Diewald, MA in Theological Studies gradate (Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University), ‘The Thought World of William Burt Pope: Unearthing the Influences of Methodism’s Great Systematic Theologian’.