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word limit. The word limit (within the 50 / 150 words grace allowance) must therefore be strictly observed. Students can expect to be severely penalised for exceeding the word limit. Normally the penalty will be the deduction of up to 5 marks from the essay/dissertation, but in severe cases the work may be marked as failed. • Footnotes should be restricted to the documentation of claims and the registration of relevant caveats or observations in relation to the literature. Footnotes must not be used to circumvent the word limit of the essay or dissertation. Students can expect to be severely penalised for abusing the proper use of footnotes in this way. Normally the penalty will be a deduction of up to 5 marks from the essay or dissertation, but in severe cases the essay or dissertation may be marked as failed. • The word count of the entire essay or dissertation (excluding footnotes), must be recorded on a separate page bound up with the essay or dissertation. An electronic copy of the dissertation on CD must also be provided so that if necessary the word count may be verified. 2.6 Deadlines for Submission Submission dates must be strictly adhered to. If there are grave and convincing reasons why work for Part I assessment cannot be submitted on time, the Secretary of the MPhil must be informed of these in writing at the History Faculty, or by email, before the deadline. These reasons will normally be either medical, in which case a statement from a College nurse or a GP must also be provided, or personal, in which case a supporting letter from the student’s College tutor is also required. The Chair and/or Academic Secretary of the MPhil are able in these circumstances to consider granting an extension. An extension will normally only be considered for the actual amount of time lost, and students should be aware that excessive delay may make it impossible for their work to be examined at the same time as that of other students and may consequently delay receipt of their results. Whereas in the case of the essays, the Academic Secretary and Chair are able to grant extensions in compelling circumstances, in the case of the dissertation there is a formal procedure laid down by the Board of Graduate Studies by which extensions must be sought. These may only be granted where there are grave and convincing reasons for a delay in submission. These reasons will normally be either medical, in which case a statement from a College nurse or a GP must also be provided, or personal, in which case supporting comments from the students College tutor are also required. An extension should be applied for in advance, normally at least one week before the submission date, using the appropriate application form downloaded from your Self-Service pages in CamSIS: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/current/submitting/deferring.html. After initial consideration by the MPhil Sub-Committee, the application will be referred to the next available Degree Committee meeting and, if approved, forwarded to the Board of Graduate Studies. Official confirmation that leave to defer has been granted will be sent to the student by the BGS. If in any doubt about this procedure, please contact the MPhil Office for advice. Mechanical breakdown in the functioning of word processors will not normally be regarded as a sufficient excuse for late submission. Students are therefore strongly advised to plan to complete their work a couple of days in advance of the deadlines in order to avoid such problems, and to back up their work regularly in multiple formats. 15
APPENDIX A: LIST OF ACADEMIC STAFF ASSOCIATED WITH THE MPHIL Dr H-J Chang (Development Studies and Economics & Politics) Professor MJ Daunton (History & Trinity Hall) Dr S Fennell (Development Studies and Jesus) Professor MJ Hatcher (History & Corpus Christi) Role of the state in economic change; industrial policy and technology policy; privatisation and regulation; theories of institutions and morality; the East Asian economies; corporate governance. Economic and Social history of Britain since 1700, especially economic and social policy, urbanisation, and globalisation since 1945. Author of Progress and Poverty: An economic and social history of Britain, 1700-1850 (1995), Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914 (2001), Just Taxes: The Politics of taxation in Britain, 1914-79 (2002), and Wealth and welfare: An economic and social history of Britain, 1851-1951 (2007). Political institutions, household, community and development in twentieth-century China and India. Medieval and early modern British economic and social history. Recent publications include Modelling the Middle Ages: the history and theory of England’s economic development (OUP 2001), and Understanding the population history of England, 1450-1750, Past and Present (2003). Dr S Horrell (Economics) Labour market participation of women and children; household structure, standards of living and expenditure c1750-1900; structures of consumption and production in 19 th century Britain. Dr J Lawrence (History & Emmanuel College) Professor P Mandler (History & Gonville and Caius) Dr J Marfany (History & Homerton) Dr N Mora-Sitja (History & Downing) Dr JC Muldrew (History & Queens’) Professor E Rothschild (History & King’s) British social, political and cultural history from the mid nineteenth century to the present. Currently working on the history of class identity in Britain between the 1930s and the 1990s. Cultural and social history of Britain since 1800; history of the social sciences in the 20 th century. Author of The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (1997), History and National Life (2002); The English National Character (2006). Current work on ideas about modernization and globalization in 19 th and 20 th -century Britain; the history of the idea of ‘national identity’; the place of social science in everyday life in 20 th - century Britain and America; the history of anthropology and ‘cultural relativism’. Economic and social history of England and Europe, especially: eighteenth-century Spain, proto-industry, population growth, marriage and family formation, living standards, consumption and poverty and welfare. Modern European economic history, especially: Spanish history since 1750; labour markets and industrialisation; the standard of living; globalization and inequality. British early modern economic and social history. 18th and 19th century French and English economic ideas. Author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (HUP, 2001), 'Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces' in 16
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