Hi all,
We've got a three-year PhD studentship starting in January at Glasgow to work on 'infrastructures of solidarity', details below. Please pass on to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline is 21 October.
Best,
Diarmaid
'Infrastructures of solidarity: The spatial politics of the left in 1970s and 1980s Britain'
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
This PhD project will focus on the spatial politics of the left in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. By studying the labour clubs, women's centres, bookshops, unemployed workers' centres and other spaces that emerged in these decades, the PhD will explore the construction of material infrastructures of solidarity that supported local, translocal and transnational political activism. The project will explore how such sites rooted political activity in particular places, while also allowing for the creation of networked forms of activism, both within and beyond Britain. The project will be based on archival research and, if appropriate, oral histories. It will engage with debates in the discipline on the geographies of labour, social movements and solidarity, developing the concerns of the Spatial Politics and Practices research theme within the University of Glasgow's Human Geography Research Group. Within these broad parameters, there will be significant opportunity for students to shape the focus of the research according to their own interests.
Supervisors: Dr Diarmaid Kelliher, Dr David Featherstone and Dr Lazaros Karaliotas.
Award details
This is a three-year studentship. It will include:
- An annual maintenance grant at the RCUK rate (2019/2020 rate is £15,009)
- Payment of fees at the standard home rate
- Students can also draw on a pooled Research Training Support Grant, usually up to a maximum of £750 per year.
Eligibility requirements
Applicants must have a good first degree (at least 2.1) and master's degree in geography or a cognate discipline (e.g. history).
How to apply
Applications should include:
- A one-page proposal outlining how applicants would develop the research project
- A sample of academic writing (approx. 3-4000 words long)
- CV and two references
Applications should be submitted by email to [log in to unmask] by 21 October 2019.
Interviews will take place (in person or by Skype) in early November. The PhD will start 1 January 2020.
For more information, or any informal enquiries, contact Diarmaid Kelliher ([log in to unmask])
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/research/postgraduate
https://tinyurl.com/infrastructuresPhD
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