Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies

AHRC funding for UKEU-Arts and Humanities Research Students

AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities Research Students

PhD Study in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham for 2014-2015

The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five-year period to excellent research students in the arts and humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between the universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, De Montfort, Birmingham and Birmingham City, provides research candidates with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate, subject specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.

Under the aegis of the DTP, the Department of Culture, Film and Media (CFM) in the School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham is inviting applications from well-qualified students. CFM can offer supervision in the following areas of film and television studies and cultural studies and critical theory:

• Screen and Media Industries
• Film and Television History
• US Film and Television
• East-Asian and Global Cinema
• British Television
• Production Studies
• Media Audiences
• Digital and New Media
• Auditory Cultures
• Software Studies
• Popular Media
• Critical Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Cultural Policy
• Cultural History
• East-Asian Visual Culture
• Consumer Culture
• Everyday Life
• Postcolonialism
• Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Journalism
• Pyschoanalysis

Full details of our research are available at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pgstudy/courses/spanish-portuguese-and-latin-american-studies/research-courses.aspx

The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 9 January 2014, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk.

For details of how to apply to SPLAS Nottingham, please contact the Postgraduate and Research Office in the first instance:

t: +44 (0)115 846 8316
e: pg-clas@nottingham.ac.uk
w: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/studywithus/postgraduate/index.aspx  

If you would like to learn more about postgraduate study and funding opportunities at the University of Nottingham, you are warmly invited to attend an Open Day in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies on Thursday 21st November in the Trent building, B46. Further details are available here.

Posted on Friday 8th November 2013

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