AHRC-Funded PhD Opportunities in French
School of Arts and Humanities
Nottingham Trent University
AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for
UK/EU Arts and Humanities research students
The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the Arts and Humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between Nottingham Trent, Nottingham, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Leicester and De Montfort universities, 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.
French at Nottingham Trent University is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:
- Contemporary Visual Cultures
- Contemporary French and Continental Philosophy (Existentialism, Sartre, de Beauvoir)
- Critical Theory
- French Cinema - especially relating to the political, to work, and to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash
- Feminism in France
- Gender, Society, Politics
- Contemporary French Literature - fiction/auto-fiction/autobiography/autopathography
- French and the Medical Humanities – literary and cinematic representations of illness, disease, trauma, loss
- Contemporary French Politics
- French and Transnational events of 1968 - collective memory in France and Europe, French protest movements, France and Europe.
- Graphic novel
- Queer Theory
- Religion and Secularism
- Urban studies
The deadline for AHRC M3C funding applications is 14th January 2016, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the partnership (DTP). For further information and expressions of interest, please contact Professor Gill Allwood sgill.allwood@ntu.ac.uk or Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy (martin.oshaughnessy@ntu.ac.uk).
For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk.