PhD Studentship at Newcastle University: French Popular Entertainment in the Long Nineteenth Century
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDU722/nuact-phd-studentship-french-popular-entertainment-in-the-long-nineteenth-century
Deadline: January 17th
Award Summary
The studentship will cover 100% of home tuition fees and an annual stipend of £18,622 (FTE) for 3 years, plus a research expenses allowance. Home and international applicants are welcome to apply. Successful international candidates will need to be able to fund the difference between home fees and international tuition fees (applications can be made to the university NUORS scheme<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=nuors24> for assistance, but it is competitive and cannot be guaranteed).
Overview
The School of Modern Languages<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/> at Newcastle University invites applications for a doctoral studentship within the broad area of French popular entertainment in the long nineteenth century. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape their own research project related to this broad topic. Their research will be supervised by Dr Hannah Scott and is anticipated to relate to the general framework of the research she is conducting on popular performance culture as a Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow. This PhD is emphatically interdisciplinary, and applications are welcomed from students of Modern Languages, Music, History, Theatre Studies, or other related fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Café-concert, music-hall entertainments
• Popular /folk / amateur music making
• Popular entertainments in family and community spaces
• Visual spectacles
• Festivals, celebrations, and fairs
• Popular theatricals and theatres
• Dance on and off stage
• The performing body
• Entertainments and class, politics, ideologies
• Entertainments and material culture
• Practice-as-research as an approach to studying historical entertainments
The successful candidate will be expected to focus primarily on long nineteenth-century France (1789-1914), but proposals with a broader chronological and/or geographical focus will also be considered.
Newcastle University offers a thriving and friendly community with an energetic research culture, including the Institute for Creative Arts Practice<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/creativearts/>, Performance Research Network<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/creativearts/research/research-clusters/performance-research-network-/>, and Humanities Research Institute,<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuhri/> and has close links to local theatres and creative venues in Newcastle and the North East.
Start Date
The successful applicant is expected to start in September 2024 (or shortly thereafter with the agreement of the supervisor).
Award Duration
3 years full time. Part-time working patterns are available, including to accommodate caring responsibilities, disabilities, or other requirements.
Application Closing Date
17 January 2024
Supervisors
Dr Hannah Scott<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuact/fellows/profiles/hannahscottnewcastleacuk.html#background>
Eligibility Criteria
You will require a working knowledge of French and to have achieved Merit or higher in a Master's degree in a relevant field before commencing the project (or a 2:1 in an undergraduate degree and professional experience in a field relevant to your proposed project).
If English is not your first language, you must have IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills).
Home and international students are welcome to apply; however, we regret that the studentship only covers fees at the home rate.
Contact Details
For all informal inquiries, please contact Dr Hannah Scott – [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
For practical queries about the submission process, please contact - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
How To Apply
Applications should be submitted through Newcastle University’s Apply to Newcastle portal<https://applyto.newcastle.ac.uk/>.
Once registered on the Newcastle University portal, select ‘Create a Postgraduate Application’.
Use ‘Course Search’ to identify your programme of study:
* you can search for the ‘Course Title’ using the programme code: 8220F (full-time) or 8220P (part-time)
* the Research Area is: Modern Languages
* select ‘PhD School of Modern Languages’ as the programme of study
You will then need to provide the following information in the ‘Further Details’ section:
* a ‘Personal Statement’ (max. 1500 words), including a research proposal and a statement of how your experience has equipped you for the proposed project
* the studentship code SML012 in the ‘Studentship/Partnership Reference’ field
* when prompted for how you are providing your research proposal - select ‘Write Proposal’ You should then type in the title of the research project from this advert - you do not need to upload a separate research proposal.
In addition, before you submit your application you will need to upload the following supporting documentation:
* CV with details of 2 referees (3 pages max.)
* undergraduate degree transcript, master's certificate if already completed, and/or other relevant certificates
You will not be able to submit your application until you have submitted all required documents/information.
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Dr Hannah Scott
NUAcT Fellow in French Cultural History
Newcastle University
Chair of the Music, Medicine and History Network @MusicMedHistory
Please note my working days are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Latest publications:
-- Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870-1904 (London and New York: Routledge, 2022) https://www.routledge.com/Singing-the-English-Britain-in-the-French-Musical-Low-Brow-18701904/Scott/p/book/9780367416126
-- ‘The Singing Linguist: Popular Songs on Fin-de-siècle Language Learning’, Contemporary French Civilization, 46:4 (2021), 373–93
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