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PhD Studentships in Film and Media at the University of Kent, 2016-17 entry The Centre for Film and Media Research (CFMR) at the University of Kent is pleased to invite applications for PhD studentships, through the AHRC Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) Doctoral Training Partnership. Staff affiliated to CFMR come from the School of Arts, School of European Culture and Languages and School of Engineering and Digital Arts, ensuring a wide range of expertise. We are particularly interested in receiving applications in the following areas: · Animation · American cinema (Hollywood, formulaic movies, ‘independent’) · Art cinema · Avant-garde and experimental film · Censorship and regulation · Classical and contemporary film theory · Costume · Digital technologies · Distribution and exhibition, funding and policy · Documentary · Emotions and morality · European cinema · Film authorship · Film culture (reception, fandom, intersection with other cultural forms) · Film criticism · Genres (romantic-comedy, melodrama, gothic, horror) · Latin American cinema · Media industry studies · Practice as research · Pre- and early cinema · Space and place · Stardom AHRC CHASE The University of Kent is proud to be part of the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) which was awarded a £17 million Doctoral Training Partnership by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in October 2013. Our partners include The Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths College, the Open University, and the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, and Sussex. SOAS and Birkbeck College joined the consortium as associate members in 2014. CHASE is one of only 11 UK AHRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnerships and the partners have committed an additional £10 million in studentship funding which will allow CHASE to provide AHRC awards to over 375 PhD students in the arts and humanities across the partner institutions over five years. CHASE will offer students a wide range of exciting opportunities to gain professional experience, work across institutions and disciplines, and acquire advanced research skills. Further information is available from the CHASE website<http://www.chase.ac.uk/>. How to apply New students wishing to be considered for these scholarships must apply for a PhD place at the University of Kent<http://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/apply/> by 13th January 2016 at the latest. Any current PhD students wishing to be considered for AHRC funding should contact their School Director of Graduate Studies (with responsibility for research programmes) to advise them of this as soon as possible or by 13th January 2016 at the very latest. CHASE will fund up to 75 doctoral studentships for admission in 2016. Applicants can find further details<http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/research_council/ahrc.html> on the University’s postgraduate scholarships and loans webpages and on the relevant Schools’ webpages. Applicants are advised, in the first instance, to contact the Director of the Centre for Film ad Media Research, Dr Lavinia Brydon on [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to discuss proposals and suitable supervisors. _____ Dr Lavinia Brydon | Lecturer in Film | Director, Centre For Film and Media Research School of Arts | University of Kent Room 2-13, Jarman Building, Canterbury , Kent CT2 7UG Tel: 01227 826553 | Email [log in to unmask] This email is confidential to the intended recipient. If you have received it in error please notify the sender and delete it from your computer.