Matthew Stephens

Matthew Hill (PGR, Edge Hill University and The British Library, UK)

I’m Matthew Stephens, currently approaching the end of my second year as a full-time postgraduate research student, undertaking a collaborative PhD with Edge Hill University, Lancashire and the British Library. My thesis aims to reassess conventional understanding of success and failure in the nineteenth-century press, focusing on short-lived newspapers. Over the last two years, I have been welcomed into the inclusive, supportive community of periodicals scholars, especially by RSVP. I’m interested in becoming a postgraduate representative to develop further the society’s encouragement and support of postgraduate researchers in the field, with the goal of strengthening collaborative scholarly networks across borders.