Dear Discussion list,

I thought that you might be interested in these professional development opportunities:

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National Productivity Investment Fund PhD Studentships 2017: University of Sunderland
https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/more/research/institutes/institute-arts-creative-industries/centre-research-art-design/npif-phd-studentships/

Available part-time or full-time, these funded stipends of around £14,500 pa ft are great professional development opportunities for designers, artists, digital media creatives, curators, academics and others.

As part of its Industrial Strategy, the government recently announced a National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to support an additional 1000 PhD studentships to start on 1 October 2017. The Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership and Northumbria-Sunderland Consortium in Art and Design have jointly secured 12 awards, funded by the AHRC, to support research in the two areas identified by AHRC as the focus of these awards: Design and The Creative Sector.

* At the University of Sunderland, we are offering exciting ‘Supervisor-led’ opportunities to research with partners:
FAB FOUNDATION
SAGE GATESHEAD
LITTLE INVENTORS WORLDWIDE LTD
SIGLION
NORTHERN GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART (NGCA)
KIELDER OBSERVATORY

* You can also propose your own research with other partners via the ‘Applicant-led route’. 

Application and procedure details are available from the web site above.
WED 7 JUNE at 5pm ‘Applicant-led route’ expression of interest deadline.
MON 19 JUNE at 5pm ‘Supervisor-led route’ discussed application deadline.

These studentships have some UK residency requirements - see RCUK's Student Funding Guide pages 11-12. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/documents/termsconditionstraininggrants-pdf/ 

Further Enquiries: University of Sunderland - Prof. Beryl Graham: [log in to unmask]

Yours,

Beryl

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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art http://www.crumbweb.org
Research Student Manager, Art and Design
MA Curating Course Leader http://www.macurating.net
Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland The David Puttnam Media Centre, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD
Tel: +44 191 515 2896

Recent books:
New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences, Ashgate
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, MIT Press 
A Brief History of Curating New Media Art, The Green Box