Call for applications for studentships in Media and Communication, University of Leicester, as part of the AHRC Three Cities Consortium.

UK/EU Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Students

The Midlands Three Cities Consortium is a doctoral training partnership, which brings together six universities in the cities of Leicester, Birmingham and Nottingham. The project provides funding and training for 410 PhD student places over five years.

The consortium unites arts and humanities schools and departments at the University of Leicester, De Montfort University, University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.

PhD students will benefit from access to research experts at some of the highest-ranking arts and humanities departments and schools in the country. Through the consortium, researchers will be able to forge unique interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues at other universities across the East and West Midlands working in different academic disciplines. This includes advanced training as outlined in the AHRC research training framework http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/What-We-Do/Research-careers-and-training/Pages/Research-Training-Framework.aspx

 

The Department of Media and Communication at Leicester offers an exciting place to study diverse aspects of media within an active postgraduate community. We therefore invite PhD proposals around the following areas:

 

Media and seriality

Disability/the body in media

Television

Audiences: fandom, literacies, public participation

Cultural work

Media and social movements

Media and environmental communication

Counter-publics and policy

Politics and emotion

Digital journalism

Journalism and gender

Journalism and conflict/crisis

Sustainability and consumption

Regional identity and consumption

 

Please send initial expressions of interest and research proposals to [log in to unmask] by Monday December 1st 2014. The deadline for completed AHRC applications is Wednesday 14th January 2015 at 12 noon. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact [log in to unmask] .

 

 

 

 

Helen Wood

Professor of Media and Communication

Department of Media and Communication

University of Leicester

Bankfield House

132 New Walk

Leicester

LE1 7JA

 

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