GENDERED CEREMONY AND RITUALS IN PARLIAMENT: DISCIPLINING REPRESENTATION
As part of this programme applications are invited for 3 PhD studentships
available on a 1+3 or +3 basis commencing in September 2007.
This doctoral research will form part of a programme of work funded by the
Leverhulme Trust that includes research undertaken by the programme’s
co-investigators Prof Shirin Rai, Prof Joni Lovenduski, Dr Sarah Childs and
Dr Georgina Waylen and post doctoral fellows based at Sheffield, Birkbeck
and Warwick. The studentships will be based at the Universities of Bristol,
Sheffield and Warwick.
The programme seeks to encourage work which, freed from conventional
disciplinary constraints, can afford a wider recognition of the place of
ceremony and ritual within the human condition. It will analyse the ways in
which ceremony and rituals are racialized and gendered in three political
institutions: the British, South African and Indian Parliaments.
It is envisaged that each of the PhD studentships will focus on one
parliament and address a range of questions. For example these might
include: what are the formal and informal rules and norms of that
Parliament? How are they expressed and transmitted? How do parliamentary
rituals and ceremonies discipline MPs? What are the dominant forms of the
public behaviour of elected representatives in that parliament? To what
extent are these racialised and sexualized?
The successful candidates will be part of a research team. Each research
team will be consist of the co-applicants leading research in particular
research sites, the PhD student and a Post-doctoral researcher. The research
teams will meet every six months for co-ordination meetings. One of these
will be at the annual workshop. The teams will also keep in touch through
email and the website. The successful candidate will be expected to play
full part in the organisation and work of the teams and the workshops.
Applications are welcomed from well qualified candidates with a good honours
degree or equivalent for a 1 + 3 studentship; and a recognised research
training MA or equivalent for a + 3 studentship.
Studentship 1 ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in the British Parliament’,
based in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol, lead supervisor
Dr Sarah Childs
Studentship 2 ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in the South African
Parliament’, based in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield,
lead supervisor Dr Georgina Waylen
Studentship 3 ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in the Indian Parliament’, based
in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of
Warwick, lead supervisor Prof Shirin Rai
Please address your enquiries and applications to the department where you
would like to be based in the first instance. We welcome informal enquiries.
Please contact either Sarah Childs, Shirin Rai or Georgina Waylen (for
their contact details see below)
Closing date for applications: 31 July 2007
For application forms and further details please contact:
For University of Bristol:
Postgraduate Admissions, Department of Politics, University of Bristol, 10
Priory Rd, Bristol BS8 ITU, [log in to unmask] or Dr. Sarah
Childs ([log in to unmask])
For University of Sheffield
Mrs Sarah Cooke ([log in to unmask]) or Dr.Georgina Waylen
([log in to unmask]), Dept of Politics, Elmfield, Northumberland Rd,
Sheffield S10 2TY, tel 0114 222 1640.
For the University of Warwick:
Ms. Geraldine Raison ([log in to unmask]) or Prof. Shirin Rai
([log in to unmask]) Department of Politics and International Studies,
University Of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
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