The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick invites applications to the university’s annual funding competition for doctoral students, for entry in October 2015.
Outstanding candidates may be eligible to compete for CADRE scholarships (home/EU PhD applicants in the Arts), Chancellor’s International scholarships (non-EU PhD applicants), Wolfson scholarships (students embarking on PhD studies in History, Literature and Languages). The School of Modern Languages and Cultures will select ten candidates in total to nominate for these awards. The application deadline for this year’s competition is 11:59pm (GMT) on Monday 12th January 2015.
For more details on these and other funding schemes, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/scholarship/typesoffunding/.
Details of research interests in Italian Studies and staff specialisms can be found at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/research/ and at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/staff/. For more information on research in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/.
We offer our graduate students a buoyant research culture, with nineteen students currently enrolled for PhDs in Italian Studies, and more than fifty across the School as a whole. Postgraduate researchers play a vital role in the research community, alongside postdoctoral researchers and academic staff of national and international renown. The language units at Warwick are among the most highly-ranked and vibrant in the UK, and Modern Languages at Warwick is ranked 26th in the world (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013). In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), Italian was ranked third overall in the UK. The University of Warwick itself has been declared University of the Year 2015 by the Times and Sunday Times newspapers.
Applicants who are interested in postgraduate study at Warwick specifically in Italian, or in Modern Languages and Cultures more broadly, are warmly encouraged to contact me as early as possible, and no later than the end of December 2014.
Jenny Burns