1. Leverhulme Trust - 2 x PhD Full Scholarships
Traumatic Pasts, Cosmopolitanism, and Nation-Building in Contemporary World Literature
Major three-year research project led by Professor Stuart Taberner (German) and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project is also part of the Leeds-based Transnational Holocaust Memories network
* Eligibility: Home/EU students: BA 2.1 or equivalent and MA or equivalent in relevant subject. If English is not the first language, then candidates must also meet the University’s English language requirements: IELTS 6.5 with not less than 6.0 in any component. Also, good reading knowledge of German and another foreign language or English.
* Deadline: 02 February 2015
* Value of award: Full fees and full maintenance funding (fees - £3,996 maintenance - £13,863
Download further information<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/downloads/download/1347/leverhulme_phds_information> and application form<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/downloads/file/2235/leverhulme_phds_application>
2. AHRC Fully-Funded PhD Studentship Award
Care for the Future Theme: Performing the Jewish Archive,
Jewish Archives in Exile
Supervisor: Dr Helen Finch (German)
The University of Leeds School of Languages, Cultures and Societies is pleased to announce a three-year fully-funded PhD Studentship as part of this £1.5m Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, to commence no later than 30 March 2015. As well as full fees, the successful applicant will receive full maintenance funding (UK/EU rate £ 13,863 for 2014/15, increasing annually), plus some expenses for approved research visits.
In addition, the student will have the opportunity of a funded placement at the National Archives in Kew, working with recently acquired materials pertaining to compensation of British victims of Nazi persecution.
Subject area
This PhD student may come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, but it is expected that their principal background will be in literature, cultural studies or heritage. The PhD topic will be determined in collaboration with the successful applicant. The topic area will be a critical study of the archivisation of a migrant Jewish artist relevant to the project as a whole, or the migration of their archive, in conjunction with a study of an aspect of that artist's work. Projects might address, for instance, such topics as the on-going crisis over the Kafka manuscripts in Israel, the institutionalisation of Jewish émigré artists in the state-funded German Literary Archive in Marbach, or the creation and migration of H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt collections in the Foyle Special Collections Library at King's College London. The thesis will take as its departure point Arvatu's 2011 contention that all archival research is a strategic intervention into actuality.
* Eligibility: Home/EU students who have a BA (2:1) minimum or equivalent in an appropriate subject, and normally a Masters degree or other professional experience relevant to the scope of the project.
* Deadline: Extended to 30 November 2014
* Value of award: Full fees and full maintenance funding (UK/EU rate £ 13,863 for 2014/15, increasing annually), plus some expenses for approved research visits.
Download further information<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/downloads/download/1342/ahrc_phd_further_information_2014> and application form<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/downloads/download/1343/ahrc_phd_application_form_2014_jewish_archive>
3. White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) AHRC Studentships
The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) is a Doctoral Training Partnership of the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. It is responsible for the distribution of AHRC-funded studentships for these universities and for the coordination of a doctoral training programme. WRoCAH is able to offer over 50 AHRC studentships per year to candidates with a place for doctoral study at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield or York.
Applicants for an AHRC studentship must have applied for a place of study in an eligible School, Department or Centre and may only apply for funding at one of Leeds, Sheffield or York. The studentship application form and details of how to apply are only available from the WRoCAH website<http://wrocah.ac.uk/new-student/ahrc-competition/>
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