Dear Colleagues,

Can I draw your attention to the following advertisement about PhDstudentships at Aberystwyth.

 

Thank you.

 

Tom O’Malley.

 

Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth

 

Up to five PhD studentships, available from September 2003 and with a duration of three years, are now being offered in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, Aberystwyth. Applications are invited in the fields of:

 

Film and/or Television Studies under the supervision of Professor Martin Barker, Dr. Kevin Donnelly, Dr. Glen Creeber, Dr. Mikel Koven, Dr. Ernest Mathijs, Professor Tom O’Malley and Professor Elan Closs Stephens.

 

Drama and/or Theatre Studies under the supervision of Richard Gough, Dr. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Dr. David Ian Rabey, Professor Ioan Williams.

 

Performance Studies under the supervision of Richard Gough and Professor Mike Pearson.

 

Welsh Language Theatre, Film and/or Television under the supervision of Dr. Roger Owen and/or Professor Ioan Williams.

 

The successful candidates in any of these fields will be working in an area with a strong research culture. The Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, rated 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, is the largest Department in the University and one of the largest departments of Theatre, Film and Television Studies in the United Kingdom and is currently expanding faster than any other Department in the University of Wales as a whole. Recent developments in its teaching provision have included new programmes in Scenography and new media. Please consult the Department’s website at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts for further information about the Department and for details on the research interests of staff.

 

These full-time studentships will include fees at the home student rate and maintenance for three years. The level of the award is £9,000 p.a. plus fees plus study allowance of £500 p.a. for research travel, conferences etc. Candidates should have an MA and/or a good first degree, plus some research experience in a relevant field of study. Applicants will be asked to outline in detail their proposed research project, and in awarding the studentships the panel will take into account both the project’s inherent merit and its congruence with existing research strengths within the department. For further details and application forms contact [log in to unmask] or download a form from http://www.aber.ac.uk/pga/web/apply.htm      

 

Informal inquiries can be made to Professor Tom O’Malley, [log in to unmask] and for Welsh language candidates, Professor Ioan Williams, [log in to unmask] . Phone (01970) 622828.

Closing date for applications: 21 July 2003.

 

 

 

Film and/or Television:

Within the broad media fields, we welcome any well-conceived research proposals. We do however have emergent research groupings: in the media in Wales and minority language issues; in new forms of audience research; in alternative and subaltern forms of cinema; in media and gender identities, and and in new media.  Beyond these, as the Department's web information shows, individuals have on-going research interests in a wide range of topics

 

Drama and/or Theatre Studies:

We particularly welcome applications in the fields of established strengths and developing initiatives of departmental research. These include: Contemporary British and Irish Drama; Dramatic Theory and Aesthetics; Theatre and Consciousness; Gender, Sexuality and Theatre; Welsh Drama; Modern