PLEASE PASS ON TO POTENTIAL APPLICANTS
The Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories (CMNH) at the University of Brighton invites applications for AHRC/TECHNE fully funded doctoral
studentships commencing October 2019 on topics concerning the cultural significance of the past for lived experience, social relationships, politics and
identities in the present and in the future. Trans/interdisciplinary in ethos,
the CMNH
offers supervisory expertise to students working in and across a range of disciplines including
history, cultural studies, literature, memory studies, social anthropology, cultural geography, art, media, film and visual studies, performance studies, critical theory,
sociology, psycho-social studies, critical heritage studies, and narratology.
CMNH has particular research interests in the following thematic areas:
Heritage in the Twenty-First Century;
Medical Histories, Memories and Life Narratives;
Complex Temporalities in Post–Conflict Spaces;
Reparative Histories: Radical Narratives of 'Race' and Resistance;
The Northern Irish Troubles: Histories, Memories, Silences in Conflict Transformation;
History and Cultural Memory of Twentieth-Century Wars;
Contesting Britain at War.
Applications for PhD studies in these areas, and on topics that address
the relation between powerful or official memories, narratives and histories and those which give expression to subordinate, marginalised and neglected historical
experience, are especially welcome. Proposals
concerned with any
practice that produces understandings and representations of ‘the past’ (including oral history, life history/life writing, remembrance and commemoration, public history
and heritage, autobiography, and history-making in popular culture as well as academic scholarship), and
that relates to the interests of individual supervisors, are also welcome. PhD students play a central role in the Centre and successful applicants will benefit from an exciting
and supportive research culture with many opportunities for participation in our collective work. For further details about the Centre's thematic research areas, research interests and activities, staff and current research students, see http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/mnh
These studentships are offered by the TECHNE doctoral training consortium via the University of Brighton’s Doctoral College. For
information about the awards, eligibility and application process, and to download application forms, go to https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/dtp-ahrc-techne-general.aspx. For
information on TECHNE see http://www.techne.ac.uk.
Deadline for applications to the University of Brighton: 7 January 2019.
Final deadline for applications supported by the University of Brighton to TECHNE: 21 February 2019.
Please circulate widely to potential applicants.
