'PhD Application Stories' - Listen to Lauren’s PhD application story

Hulton, Lucy; Pearl Holmes, Lauren; Brennan, Phoebe

Abstract

Listen to Lauren’s PhD application story.

Lauren is a self-funded PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Salford. She comes from a low-income background and an area where participation in higher education is low. She achieved a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Salford as a mature and first-generation student. She then earned an MA in English Literature and American Studies from the University of Manchester, a Russell Group university. Lauren is a mother, neurodivergent, and has a complex disability, which all impact her ability to maintain a normal schedule; she studies for her PhD on a full-time but flexible basis which works for her. Her PhD explores intersections between women’s religious writing and the activities of radical Puritan sects in the mid-seventeenth century. She has spoken at Harvard Divinity School on seventeenth-century poetry and sermons in manuscript and has written on antinomianism, metatheatricality, and proto-sentimentalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature.



Recording date: 16.01.25

Interviewer name: Lucy Hulton, NWCDTP Widening Participation Fellow 2024-2025

Studio Manager: Phoebe Brennan

Ethics approval granted by the University of Salford: Project ID: 1189 (approval date: 27.08.24, amendment approval date: 13.11.24 - pre-interview form returned: 10.01.25, release form returned: 24.01.25)

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• Digital Artefact Type: Website Content
• Online Publication Date: May 6, 2025
• Publication Date: May 6, 2025
• Deposit Date: May 6, 2025
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.28923692