The University of Brighton’s, Department of Geography seeks outstanding students with an interest in Cultural Geography or Gender and Sexuality to apply for fully funded doctoral studentships (AHRC and internal funding available with fees and living stipend). Potential applicants need to have an interest in doctoral study in at least one of the following areas;
Cultural Geography, with a particular focus on: Social Inclusion; Agency, Society and Space; Nature, Political Ecology and Material Feminism; Spaces of education and identity; Geographies of Nature; Cultural Ecosystem Services; Water and cultures; Disability and/ or Landscape.
Gender and Sexualities, with a particular focus on: Spaces of Inclusion, Marginalization, Wellbeing or Performance of identity; Queer theory, Nature and Environmental relations.
Or a concern with the intersections of Social and Cultural Geography with Politics, History, Gender and Sexuality, Health and Well-being or Art and the philosophical implications of this.
Research will be supported by the Society, Space and Environment research group in the Department of Geography http://www.brighton.ac.uk/set/research/themes/society.php?PageId=130
and the Centres of Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and Memory; Inclusion, Health and Wellbeing and Narrative and Histories based in the Faculty of Arts. Potential supervisors include; Andrew Church, Rebecca Elmhirst, Kath Browne, Judith Watson, Leila Dawney and Hannah Macpherson. There are also opportunities to be jointly supervised with staff in the Faculty of Arts.
There are two routes through which a studentship award will be made. Some studentships will be funded centrally by the host institution and some through an Arts and Humanities Research Council scheme. The University of Brighton offer a package of research, training and career development for full-time PhD students tailored to enable students to develop the necessary skills required to meet their career choices and enhance their research, teaching and transferable skills.
The competition for these studentships is now open to students who wish to study for a full-time PhD commencing in September 2014:
To be eligible you must:
1. have or expect to obtain at least upper second class honours in your first degree
2. achievement of 7.0 in IELTS, or equivalent, as the normal case, for non-UK students (before the end of March 2014 at the latest)
3. be commencing your doctoral study in September 2014
If you are interested in making an application please contact us initially by January 31st 2014 in order to discuss your research ideas (look at individual staff interests – available through the Society, Space and Environment research pages and contact them individually). The deadline for research proposals is February 19th 2014. Further details of the application process and awards available can be found at http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/doctoral-centre-arts/studentships/techne-ahrc-studentships or email [log in to unmask]
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