Some of you may have students interested in the following PhD and MA funding
opportunities. I am happy to supervise students with Caribbean interests.
Mimi Sheller, MA Director
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS, OVERSEAS STUDENT BURSARIES, RESEARCH
STUDENTSHIP, MASTER'S STUDENT BURSARIES
Lancaster University's Sociology Department is offering Two Graduate Teaching
Assistantships, Two Overseas Student Bursaries, One Research Studentship, and a
number of MA Bursaries to start in October 2003. (For further details contact:
Claire O'Donnell, Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL,
Tel. + 44 (0)1524 594178, email: [log in to unmask])
Lancaster University is a leading research institution and its Sociology
Department has been ranked in the highest possible category in all Research
Assessment Exercises, gaining 5* in 2001. In teaching assessments the
Department has also received the highest possible ranking, including in the
recent internal quality teaching review in May 2002.
PhD Programme
Two Graduate Teaching Assistantships
The Sociology Department is offering two Graduate Teaching Assistantships for
suitably qualified candidates wanting to undertake the PhD programme commencing
in October 2003. The value of each Assistantship is £7870 per year for a period
of three years, commencing October 2003. Graduate Teaching Assistants will be
required to teach up to four hours per week during University term-time
throughout the tenure of the Assistantship, which will be for up to three
years. A full programme of training is required for Graduate Teaching
Assistants.
Assistantships will be allocated on a competitive basis. Applicants should
apply to study for a PhD in the Department in the normal way and indicate in an
attached letter that they wish to be considered for a Graduate Teaching
Assistantship. Short listed applicants will be invited for interview and
selected by an appointment panel. Information on applying for postgraduate
study and the Graduate Teaching Assistantships in Sociology can be found at:
<http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/phdfut.html>. Closing Date: 1 April
2003.
Two Overseas Student bursaries
The Sociology Department is offering two bursaries for overseas (non-EU)
research students, commencing in October 2003 for a period of three years. The
Department will pay the equivalent of the Home/EU fee (£2940 in 2003/04) with
the result overseas students will only have to pay the difference between the
Home/EU and Overseas fees. All applicants would be expected to apply for ORS
(Overseas Research Studentships).
Applicants should apply to study for a PhD in the Department in the normal way
and indicate in an attached letter that they wish to be considered for an
Overseas Student bursary.
Conditions: Awards will only be renewed for the second year of study subject
to satisfactory progress in the first year and for the third year of study on
successful upgrade to PhD at the end of the second year.
Closing Date: 24 March 2003.
One ESRC CASE Studentship
The Sociology Department has one ESRC CASE studentship entitled 'Changing
Habits: The Technology and Practice of Toothbrushing in India and the UK',
sponsored by Unilever and supervised by Dr Elizabeth Shove and Professor Lucy
Suchman. This fully funded ESRC CASE studentship (£15,320 per year for three
years) is ideally suited to applicants wanting to pursue a PhD in the
sociology/anthropology of material culture and practice and/or in science and
technology studies. Further details including the full project proposal and
details of how to apply are available from Joann Bowker
([log in to unmask]) and on the sociology department's web site
(http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/). See the ESRC's web site for a
description of CASE studentships and for details of eligibility
(<http://www.esrc.ac.uk>). Closing Date:
31 May 2003.
More information:
You can find out more about the department and its PhD programme by visiting
our departmental web page at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology
For further details contact: Departmental Officer, Claire O'Donnell, Dept of
Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YL, Tel. + 44 (0)1524 594178,
email: [log in to unmask] .<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or
Elizabeth Shove, Doctoral Director, Tel: +44 (0)1524 594610, email:
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Master's Student Bursaries
The Sociology Department is offering MA bursaries for Home Students for up to
£1000 for any of its Master's programmes commencing in October 2003. Bursaries
are set against fees and are offered to candidates on the basis of ability, as
judged by applications. All eligible applicants will automatically be
considered.
The bursary will be available for the core MA pathways in Contemporary
Sociology, Economy and Society, Social Theory, and Globalization, as well as
the MA in Sociological Research, the MA in Tourism in Leisure, and the MA in
Science and Technology Studies. Closing Date: 1 May 2003.
For further details of Master's courses and bursaries, contact: Pennie
Drinkall, MA Coordinator, Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster
LA1 4YL, Tel. +44-1524-594177, email: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, or
Mimi Sheller, MA Director, Tel: +44-1524-593442, email:
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
PhD and Master's Research in Sociology at Lancaster
The Sociology Department at Lancaster is a 5* department and an exciting
research oriented centre. Our staff, together with those in related departments
and centres such as Women's Studies, Science Studies, the Institute for
Cultural Research, the Institute for Health Research, and the Institute for
Environmental Philosophy and Public Policy are helping to remake sociology and
cultural studies in a wide variety of areas. Integrating sociology with
exciting work in science studies, philosophy, anthropology, political economy,
feminist theory, cultural analysis, and critical geography, we pride ourselves
on pushing sociology into new and often 'post-disciplinary' directions and
bringing these new horizons into our MA teaching. Our research is at the
international cutting edge in many areas including:
The body, medicine and health, and new reproductive technologies
Consumption, leisure and tourism
Ethnicity, identities, diaspora and postcolonialism
Gender and sexualities
Governance, complexity, and welfare state restructuring
Political economy, the state and class structures
Social theory, globalisation, time/space
Organisations, computer supported co-operative work, technology
Sociology of science, technology and the environment
Postgraduate taught degrees are a crucial part of our activities, attracting
both British and international students. Our postgraduate research culture
includes numerous weekly and fortnightly research seminars, research groups and
workshops, run by both staff and students. Alongside the Sociology Seminars
which attract national and international visitors to the department, current
research activities include reading groups on Material Culture and Consumption;
Space, Place & Boundaries; Governmentality; Gender, Race and Class; Classical
Sociology; and the Mobilities Group.
Lancaster is a campus university in a beautiful location with a full range of
teaching, arts, leisure, and sports facilities. The enticing peaks of the Lake
District beckon on the horizon to the Northwest, while the picturesque Lune
Valley and undisturbed moorlands of the Forest of Bowland lead up to the
Yorkshire Dales. It is an idyllic place to live and study, while enjoying
excellent road and rail connections to Manchester, London, Glasgow and
Edinburgh.
Claire O'Donnell
Departmental Officer &
PG Research Coordinator
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YL
UK
tel: + 44 (0) 1524 594178
fax: + 44 (0) 1524 594256
email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology
Mimi Sheller
Lecturer in Sociology
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YL
UK
Tel.: + 44 (0)1524 593442
Fax: + 44 (0)1524 594256
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