AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities research students
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 Nottingham Trent, Nottingham, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Leicester and De Montfort universities, 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.
English at Nottingham Trent University is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:
- Diaspora and migration
- Refugeeism and displacement
- Race, ethnicity and immigration
- Postcolonial audiences and readerships
- Neocolonialism, Globalization and Neoliberalism
- Postcolonial Feminism
- Transnational sexuality studies
- Twenty-first century postcolonial literatures
- Literature and technology
- Postcolonial ecocriticism
- Environmental and economic studies
- Energy and food security
- Colonial and Postcolonial travel writing
- Postcolonial studies and motherhood
- Visual culture
- Postcolonial cultural production: film, documentary, graphic art
- Cinema and globalization
- Place and historical/cultural identity
- South Asian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean and Latin American literatures and cultures
- Literatures and cultures of Africa and African diaspora
- Black writing in Britain
- Pacific island studies
- Dalit literature and dalit activism
The deadline for AHRC M3C funding applications is 12th January 2016, 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 further information including details of application writing workshops, see: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/graduate_school/studentships/ahrc_scholarships/index.html
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