Dear BASEES Postgraduate list members,
Please see below for information concerning PhD and MA Studentships at the University of Nottingham for 2014-2015.
Best wishes,
Brendan McGeever 
BASEES Postgraduate Representative
http://glasgow.academia.edu/BrendanMcGeever



PhD and MA Studentships in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for 2014-2015

Following the announcement of the AHRC Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/midlands-3-cities/index.aspx), a £14.6 million consortium that will create 410 PhD studentships and join the expertise of the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, The University of Leicester and De Montfort University, we are delighted to announce a range of AHRC-funded PhD and MA opportunities in the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies. We would like to encourage applications for PhD and MA study in the following areas:

Russian, Slavonic & Eastern European Language & Culture 

(Including Soviet and post-Soviet cultural studies, Russian and Soviet cinema, 19th and 20th-century Russian literature, Russian theatre, Russian émigré culture, literary and cultural theory, early Russian and Byzantine history and culture, modern and contemporary Serbian and Croatian cultural studies, Serbian and Croatian literature and cinema.)


American and Canadian Studies

Comparative Literature

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

Film and Television Studies

French Language & Culture

German Language & Culture

Iberian & Latin American Language & Culture

Translation Studies

The deadline for completed AHRC applications is 9th January 2014 but to be eligible for consideration for one of these awards you must first have been accepted for a place on the course and have discussed your funding application fully with your prospective Department.

In addition there will be a number of MA, MRes and PhD Studentships and bursaries offered by the School. For details of the application procedure for these awards and of other funding for which you may be eligible, please contact the Postgraduate and Research Office in the first instance:

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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 School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies on Thursday 21st November in the Trent building, B46. Further details are available here:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/studywithus/postgraduate/pg-funding/pg-advisory-afternoon.aspx

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