Training
Network-wide training combines research skills and transferable skills, with a central role for associated partners and on-the-job experience.
Overall Training Goal (OTG)
TESTAMENT aims to educate professional, critically minded, communicative, cooperative, and digitally competent social or legal historians prepared for both academic and non-academic career paths.
Training Objectives (TOs)
The doctoral training programme integrates research and transferable skills through shared events and individually tailored activities.
Strengthen core research skills in social and legal history, including work with archival sources.
Develop comparative, transregional, and interdisciplinary perspectives on testamentary practices.
Build digital competencies for managing, analysing, and sharing research data and editions.
Enhance communication skills for academic publishing, public engagement, and policy-relevant outputs.
Prepare researchers for diverse career paths through collaboration with non-academic partners.
Monthly online meetings
Regular online meetings support presentation of ongoing research, Latin palaeography sessions, and coordination of organisational matters across the consortium.
Secondments (3 months each)
Each PhD candidate completes a three-month secondment (which may be split into shorter periods) with a non-academic associated partner, such as a museum, archive, or academy. These secondments combine on-the-job training with public-facing outputs.
