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From: gary hall [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 November 2003 09:11 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Full-time Research Studentships in Media, Culture and Communications MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Full-time Research Studentships in Media, Culture and Communications Funding opportunities for MPhil/PhD The School of Arts is offering a PhD Studentship in its successful and rapidly expanding Media, Culture and Communications group. Applications are invited from outstanding students wishing to enrol for the degree of PhD by full-time study. The successful candidate will hold either a first class or upper second class honours degree, and ideally a Master's degree (or equivalent), in Media, Culture and Communications or a related field, and have demonstrable potential in one or more of the group's existing areas of research strength: Cultural, theory and politics Interrogations of cultural studies New media Popular knowledges (e.g. celebrity gossip, conspiracy theories) Promotional cultures/consumer cultures Racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identities The studentship provides tuition fees at the EU rate plus an annual living grant currently £11,000, for up to 3 years. All applicants should submit a letter of application (citing two academic referees), a full CV, and a research proposal of three to four A4 sides, double-spaced. The proposal should: * Outline the field of inquiry * Identify the topic and purpose of the study * Indicate the significance of the expected outcome * Include a short bibliography (no more than one side of A4) The closing date for applications is Monday 6 January 2004. Interviews will be held in the second/third week of January 2004 and successful applicants will be expected to take up their awards by the end of January 2004. For informal enquiries please contact either Dr Jonathan Rutherford at [log in to unmask] or Dr Gary Hall at [log in to unmask] Applications should be sent to [log in to unmask] or posted to Anna Pavlakos, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR, UK (tel. 020 8411 5363) -- Dr Gary Hall Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk My website http://freespace.virgin.net/j.zylinska/g.hall ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************