AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Students

The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the arts and humanities. A collaboration between Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, Leicester, Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Birmingham, the partnership provides research candidates with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate, subject specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.

The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) at Birmingham City University is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:

• Media and Cultural History
• Media Heritage and Archives
• Creative Industries, Cultural Policy and Cultural Work
• Popular Music Culture
• Songwriting
• Jazz Studies
• Radio Studies
• Sexuality, Gender, the cultural construction of masculinity
• Screen Melodrama
• Pornography studies
• Cult Cinema
• Media Fandom
• Cultural Entrepreneurship
• Film and television audiences
• Comedy
• Austerity and the media
• Community Media, Hyperlocal Media and Media Activism
• Gaming Cultures
• Amateur/informal Cultural Production

Please send initial expressions of interest to develop an application with BCMCR and research proposals to [email protected] before 30^th November 2015.

The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 12th January 2015, at which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided details of two references. The funding application should normally be submitted at the same time as the application for a place to study. For full details of eligibility, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact [email protected].