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
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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
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Helen Wood
Professor of Media and Communication
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
Bankfield House
132 New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7JA