Colleagues,

Can you please circulate the following information to relevant students and colleagues.

AHRC Doctoral Studentships at the University of Stirling 2014-15

The University of Stirling is part of a consortium made up of eight Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within Scotland, known as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland (AHRC DTP Scotland), which has been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to support postgraduate studentships and training in the Arts and Humanities. Under the Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scheme, the consortium – comprised of the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde and Glasgow School of Art – will consider applications for doctoral studentship awards in the majority of Arts and Humanities subjects. The AHRC has awarded 200 funded studentships across the Consortium for five years (2014 to 2019).

The AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland supports doctoral research and training in the following Arts and Humanities disciplines, of which the following can be studied at Stirling:

Archaeology
Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Art History
Classics
Creative Writing
Cultural and Museum Studies
Cultural Studies (Policy, Arts Management and Creative Industries)
Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
Design (including Architectural Design)
Drama and Theatre Studies
English Language and Literature
Film History, Theory and Criticism
History
Interpreting and Translation
Journalism and Publishing
Languages: French Studies, German Studies (including Dutch and Yiddish), Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin Studies, Italian Studies, Middle Eastern and African Studies, Russian, Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, Scandinavian Studies.
Law and Legal Studies
Library and Information Studies
Linguistics
Media and communication studies
Music
Philosophy
Scottish Literature
Television History, Theory and Criticism
Theology, Divinity and Religion
Visual Arts

Specific areas of interest and supervision can be found at:
http://www.stir.ac.uk/arts-humanities/research/ahrcdoctoralstudentships/staffsupervision/

Applicants need to apply through the University of Stirling. Following an internal selection process, Stirling, like all other participating HEIs, will nominate a number of applications to the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) who will make the final decisions on awards across the consortium. For further information on the selection process, see the SGSAH website.

Eligibility criteria for nomination:

applicants must hold an unconditional or conditional offer in one of the above subject areas for the PhD degree programme
applicants must not be holding another full scholarship for the 2014/15 academic session, though partial scholarship funding from elsewhere (e.g. fees only or stipend only) may still be considered
applicants must hold Home (UK) and EU status. See residency guidelines in Annex A of the AHRC’s Student Funding Guide.
applicants may be either new or continuing students
applicants already holding doctoral qualifications should not apply

Further details at:
http://www.stir.ac.uk/arts-humanities/research/ahrcdoctoralstudentships/

Professor Richard Haynes
Communications, Media & Culture
School of Arts & Humanities
University of Stirling, FK9 4LA
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http://rms.stir.ac.uk/converis-stirling/person/11057
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Principal Investigator, From The Sporting Past To Future Wellbeing: Intergenerational Sports Heritage in Glasgow's Southside
AHRC Care for the future.
Project Blog: http://sportheritage.wordpress.com/

Co-investigator, Evaluation of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act (2012), Scottish Government.

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The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*.
94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation.
*The Telegraph
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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