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The competition for 3-year funded PhDs through the Bicentennial Vice-Chancellor PhD scholarships with Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) Scholarship Scheme is now open and LJMU Drama is welcoming applications from our discipline to the programme. The competition is open to UK and EU students only. Scholarships are available for 3-year studentships as well as some ‘fee only’ part-time studentships over 6 years. This year also sees the start of our LJMU-Thematic Doctoral Pathways programme.
Our staff have expertise in a number of areas of contemporary performance, many of whom are practice-based or led in their research. We are keen to supervise research in the following areas:
Applied theatre, playwriting, directing, immersive theatre, verbatim theatre, contemporary performance, queer performance, theatre history and archival research, and musical theatre.
About LJMU Drama:
We are a vibrant UK Drama department, embedded within the heart of the City of Liverpool in the Knowledge Quarter, with several studio and rehearsal rooms for teaching, workshops, and performance. We are closely situated to the Everyman and Unity theatres and we have connections with both venues as well as Liverpool’s Royal Court.
Our current PhD researchers hail from across Europe studying a diverse range of topics including: improvisation, musical theatre, applied practice, and key issues on the contemporary stage, with many of these projects focused on practice as research. We have had two successful on-time completions in dramaturgy, and movement from the classes of 2020 and 2021.
Our library holds a number of important special collections including the Willy Russell Archive, and archives for the Everyman, Unity, and Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatres.
We have a burgeoning Postgraduate community with two Masters programmes in Creating Theatre and a second in Musical Theatre, making this an exciting time to join our growing Postgraduate community.
Our spaces include the John Foster Drama Studio, recently refurbished following a £1 million investment by the university in our facilities; this is an exclusive space for Drama’s use featuring a 120-seat sprung floor studio with a flexible set-up for end-on, thrust, in-the-round, traverse, or can be stripped for promenade and rehearsal work. We also have exclusive use of the Joe H Makin Drama Centre, which houses 6 rehearsal spaces, including the Joe H Makin Theatre, an intimate space suitable for audiences up to 50 and has a flexible set-up.
As a department we make regular use of spaces beyond the department, engaging with organisations across the region to make work. Recent projects include working with the National Trust to create a bespoke promenade performance on Formby Beach based on WWII history of the area. We have also created work in the Cunard Building, the Wildflower Gardens, the World Museum, the whole of the St George’s Quarter, the Kazimier, Everton Park, Knowsley Safari Park….and more!
We regularly invite professionals and companies to perform and run workshops and Q&As for students in our spaces. In recent years this has included: Spare Tyre, The Paperbirds Theatre Company, Willy Russell, and John Godber, amongst others.
Our alumni community is vibrant; graduates receive ongoing connection and support from the Department, with rehearsal space and pilot performance opportunities to help them along their creative and professional journey. Recent successes by graduates include Ugly Bucket – multi-award-winning physical comedy company, Liverpool Arts Society and Liverpool Arts Bar, mental health and wellbeing organisation Dramatic Recovery (winners of the 2021 Arts and Performance Echo Award), and many of our graduates are successfully employed around the globe as Artistic Directors, Actors, Producers, applied practitioners, teachers, play and screenwriters as examples.
How to apply
In the first instance, please contact Dr Ros Merkin, Reader in Drama, with your initial expression of interest: [log in to unmask] who will facilitate discussion with an apt supervisor for your proposed project.
Applications must be submitted by your prospective supervisor therefore early contact is advised.
Applications (including cover letter and CV) should be submitted by the supervisor via email by 5 pm on 19 September 2022 (No further applications will be considered once the 5 pm deadline has passed or without submission by a supervisor).
You can find further details about the PhD scholarship scheme here: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2022/7/7/new-phd-scholarships-and-thematic-pathway-to-boost-research-support
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