Dear colleagues,
(With apologies for cross-posting) I would be very grateful if you could bring the following call for PhD applications to the attention of any suitable candidates.
With best wishes,
Innes
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The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London is delighted to invite suitably qualified candidates with research interests in cultural geography, historical geography, or the GeoHumanities to apply for doctoral funding under the auspices of the AHRC's technē Doctoral Training Partnership (http://www.techne.ac.uk/) and the ESRC's South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS; http://senss-dtp.ac.uk/).*
The Department of Geography has a long-standing reputation in cultural and historical geography and its staff currently take a leading role in a number of the sub-disciplines' key bodies (e.g., the Historical Geography Research Group and the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG), journals (e.g., "cultural geographies", "Journal of Historical Geography", and "GeoHumanities"), and seminar series (e.g., the London Group of Historical Geographers). The Department is also home to the interdisciplinary Centre for the GeoHumanities. The Department has formal partnerships with the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and the University of Padua (Italy), providing the opportunity for PhD students, where appropriate, to undertake exchange visits as part of their studies.
We would welcome enquiries from students interested in working in the following areas:
• histories of geography; historical geographies of science;
• history of cartography; the geography of the book;
• histories of travel, tourism, and pilgrimage; cultures of exploration;
• heritage, landscape, and memory; collecting and collections; museum geographies;
• historical geographies of religion and sacred spaces;
• cultural and historical geographies of the Mediterranean, especially Greece and Cyprus;
• creative geographies; geographies of art and activism; creative experiments;
• geographies of air and atmosphere; elemental geographies; sonic geographies;
• citizen science; geographies of listening; feminist geographies of radio.
Interested candidates are invited to contact the Director of Graduate Studies (Admissions and Recruitment), Dr Innes M. Keighren ([log in to unmask]) to discuss supervisory possibilities.
Further details about the Department of Geography's vibrant Social, Cultural and Historical Geography Research Group are available on its homepage: https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/geography/research/researchgroups/schg/home.aspx The Group's blog, Landscape Surgery, details the activities of our postgraduate researchers: http://landscapesurgery.wordpress.com/
* Applications to SeNSS and technē are governed by specific eligibility criteria (see, respectively, http://senss-dtp.ac.uk/application-faqs/ and http://www.techne.ac.uk/how-to-apply-for-a-techne-ahrc-studentshiphttp://www.techne.ac.uk/how-to-apply-for-a-techne-ahrc-studentship) and are dependent upon candidates applying successfully for admission to study at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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