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>PhD Studentship
>
>Department of Film, Theatre & Television
>University of Reading
>
>Collections-Based Research Programme
>www.reading.ac.uk/gs-phd-collections.aspx
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>Project title: Animating the Evacuee Archive: Memory and Materiality
>
>Supervisors: Dr Teresa Murjas and Dr Lisa Purse
>
>
>Project Overview:
>The Evacuee Archive at Reading is a historically significant collection.
>The largest of its kind in the UK, it contains a wealth of
>autobiographical documentation produced by a range of socially and
>culturally diverse Second World War child evacuees from the UK to a
>variety of national and international destinations, including - via the
>Childrenıs Overseas Reception Board (CORB) - South Africa, New Zealand,
>Australia and Canada. It also contains material garnered from individuals
>involved in evacuation processes. The archive holds strong potential for
>investigating how personal experiences and memories interlock with local,
>national and international events and political decision-making, and with
>related publicly rehearsed historical narratives and ideological
>discourses. It also provides rich opportunities for reflecting on how the
>experience of being evacuated has impacted longer term on individuals and
>their families. The available documentation includes written testimonies,
>diaries, letters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and a variety
>of ephemera, such as, for example, shipsı menus.
>
>
>We invite applications from appropriately qualified candidates in any
>relevant discipline, including theatre, museum studies, history,
>performance, film and media studies. You should have an interest in
>socio-political histories and their documentation. The project framework
>proposes practice-led doctoral research that will engage with, intervene
>in and animate aspects of this archive within a range of publicly
>accessible spaces, thus shaping and re-routing it via a hybridized range
>of potentially interactive events. An inter-disciplinary practitioner
>might approach investigation of the archive via a number of strategic
>routes. These could, for example, be conceptualized (auto)
>biographically, thematically (e.g. the intersection of personal and
>cultural memory), or by categorizing types of sources. The materials
>available within the archive lend themselves to critical investigation
>via a multi-media approach, given both their status as material objects
>and the fact that they constitute narrative traces or fragments of
>personal experience, but this is not a priority, and other modes of
>exhibition and public engagement will be equally viable.
>
>
>The critical frameworks and practical outcomes of the PhD research will
>be informed by, and interlock with, an important new cross-institutional
>project funded by the Arts Council, in which the supervisors are
>involved. This focuses on themes of war and conflict. This project also
>engages with the University of Reading cross-departmental research theme
>Minorities: Rights and Representation
>
>
>Applicants should indicate their proposed scope, methodology and lines of
>enquiry in relation to the collection and any relevant skills, knowledge
>and experience. We would expect the successful applicant to have
>significant input into the final shape of the PhD project. The Department
>of Film, Theatre & Television is housed in the new Minghella Building,
>offering enviable practical facilities and dedicated technical support.
>Each subject area has its own specialised production space, but all
>spaces are multifunctional, re-imagining the boundaries between media and
>enabling cross-disciplinary work. This environment provides an ideal
>context for our well established, thriving practice-as-research culture.
>
>
>Eligibility:
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>· Applicants should hold a minimum of a 2:1 Bachelorıs degree in
>a relevant subject.
>· Due to restrictions on the funding this fees only studentship
>is only open to candidates from the UK/EU.
>
>
>Funding Details:
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>Start date: October 2013
>
>· Duration: 3 years; part-time applicants are also invited.
>· Value of award: a fees only studentship is available, in
>addition to a backing grant of £1000 per annum for
>equipment/placement/outreach support (or part-time equivalent).
>· One off bursary of £3000 in first year.
>
>Placement: The studentship offers a placement at UMASCS working on an
>engagement and access project connected to the Reading at War exhibition
>and programme.
>
>Teaching Opportunities: A suitably qualified candidate will be offered
>teaching opportunities on the Department's undergraduate degree programme.
>
>
>How to apply: To apply for this studentship please submit an application
>for a PhD in Film and Drama to the University. Go to:
>www.reading.ac.uk/Study/apply/pg-applicationform.aspx for more
>information and to apply online.
>
>Please quote the reference CBR-5 in the Scholarships applied forı box
>which appears within the Funding Section of your online application.
>
>Application Deadline: 31st July 2013
>
>
>Contact information
>· For further details about this project:
>please contact Dr Teresa Murjas [log in to unmask]
>· For further details about the PhD Collections-Based Research
>Programme:
>please contact Professor Alison Donnell [log in to unmask]
>· Department of Film, Theatre & Television:
>http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/
>· The Evacuee Archive:
>http://www.reading.ac.uk/education/partners/ioe-evacuees-archive.aspx
>
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