Please forward this information onto any eligible (Home/EU) students who might be looking to secure a PhD studentship in Cultural and/or Historical Geography next year.

Many thanks

Gavin

*****************************************************************************************************

The Department of Geography at the University of Leicester is pleased to invite applications for PhD studentship opportunities, through its involvement in the Midlands3Cities (M3C) Doctoral Training Partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The Department of Geography welcomes student proposals which relate to existing research strengths in the following areas:

•	Cultural geography
•	Historical geography
•	Creative geographies and creative methodologies
•	Arts-led regeneration and artistic resistance to gentrification
•	Cultural and historical geographies of protest 
•	Cultural diplomacy and state-diaspora engagement strategies
•	Geographies of sexualities
•	Living multicultures
•	Museum geographies
•	Rural cultural geographies
•	Virtual geographies and the darknet

Applications encompassing an interdisciplinary aspect are also welcome. The Midlands3 Cities partnership encourages cross-departmental and cross-institutional supervisory teams (within the six partner institutions).

AHRC funding is open to all UK and European Union applicants who meet the academic and residency eligibility criteria. For full details, please visit http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/midlands-3-cities/funding/funding.aspx.

You should either hold a Masters qualification at the time of application or be able to state that you will have completed one by the time PhD begins, or you should apply on the basis of having equivalent relevant professional experience in lieu of a Masters qualification. You will need to have applied for a place to study at the University of Leicester before you can apply for funding and ensured that your referees provide two references in order for your M3C AHRC funding application to be considered. Full details and the application form are available on the M3C website.
 
The deadline for scholarship applications is: Tuesday 12th January 2016 
 
Within the Department of Geography, prospective applicants with enquiries should contact Dr Gavin Brown, Postgraduate Tutor ([log in to unmask]) or Charlotte Langley, Postgraduate Research Administrator ([log in to unmask]). Queries about the application process and programme should be sent to Laura Greensmith, Doctoral Training Partnership Administrator ([log in to unmask]).

Details of research in the Department of Geography are available at:

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research

Successful applicants to M3C fees, maintenance grant (stipend) and a Research Training Support Grant which includes UK/Overseas fieldwork and attendance at conferences (by application only for current PhD students). M3C students will have access to unique training opportunities, including undertaking meaningful Public Engagement (PE) and Knowledge Exchange (KE). Training is co-designed and reviewed by Creative Economy (CE) and Higher Education (HE) industry partners, and supported by a CE skills toolkit (commissioned from the Creative and Cultural Skills Council) and an academic-designed Skills for Academia toolkit.

Students will collaborate across three major cities – Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham – with a strong Midlands footprint combining a rich blend of heritage and future-focused non-academic institutions and enterprises. This dynamic mix of midlands universities will enable the development of a new kind of arts and humanities scholar who can cross traditional binary divisions of theoretical and applied research. They have committed to support students in a variety of ways including exclusive access to events such as an annual Midlands Festival of Postgraduate Research, talks, industry links, and a Virtual Postgraduate Platform, offering cross-university training.