Applications for AHRC PhD Studentships invited

The Centre for the Study of the Viking Age at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK is inviting applications for PhD studentships from students whose research interests include:

• Vikings and Norse in Britain and Ireland
• Sagas in Literary and Historical Contexts
• Runology
• Old Norse Poetry
• The Body, Disease and Disability

The studentships are part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded scheme, the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, which 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 University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, De Montfort University, 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.

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 informal enquiries concerning areas of interest within the School of English at Nottingham, please email Lydia.wallman@nottingham.ac.uk.