1. Aberdeen (information du 25/08)
2. Londres (information du 01/09)
3. Liverpool (02/09)
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The Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Aberdeen invites expressions of interest from researchers intending to apply to the 2015 round of the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. The Department has expertise in a wide range of areas, including:
Cultural and intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Literature and science in the nineteenth century
Visual culture, film and photography from the early twentieth century to the present
Urban space and the cultural history of French modernity
The politics and culture of identity and migration in contemporary Francophone culture
Post-war critical theory, philosophy and thought
Contemporary fiction, prose and poetry
As part of Aberdeen’s broad-based School of Language and Literature, it can also offer support for planning interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects in areas including film, photography and visual culture; comparative literature and culture; critical theory and modern thought. The School’s research activity is co-ordinated by a series of Research Centres: the Centre for Early Modern Studies; Centre for Modern Thought, Centre for the Novel, Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History; Centre for Visual Culture; and Centre for the Study of Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law. Each of these offers a comparative context for individual projects.
Researchers interested in applying for a British Academy PDF with us should submit a 1000-word outline of their proposed research project, setting out: aims and objectives; research questions and approach; significance and originality; and proposed outputs. The Department will select the most promising project to go forward to the competition, and provide support and mentoring in developing the final application. Project outlines should be submitted by Monday 22 September to Edward Welch, Carnegie Professor of French (edward.welch@abdn.ac.uk), to whom informal enquiries can also be made.
The deadline for submission of outline applications to the British Academy is Wednesday 8 October. To be eligible for the Fellowship scheme, applicants must have been awarded a PhD within the previous three years, or be submitting their PhD before 1 April 2015. Full details about eligibility criteria and application process are available at
http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/Postdoctoral_Fellowships_FAQs.cfm
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The Department of French at King's College London welcomes applications to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme from outstanding postdoctoral researchers. The Department has an excellent record in research and in the support of postdoctoral researchers and offers rich opportunities for interdisciplinary research in the context of the centres of the Arts and Humanities Institute of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (eg. the Centre for Enlightenment Studies, the Centre for Modern Literature and Culture, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies).
For more information about the research activities of the Department (including the research expertise of members of staff) and the Faculty, please visit:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/french/research/index.aspx
and
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/index.aspx
Details of the BA postdoctoral scheme can be found here:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/pdfells.cfm
The British Academy's deadline for outline stage applications is Wednesday 8th October 2014. This scheme offers outstanding early career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their research and training skills with a three year fellowship. Applicants must be within three years of award of their PhD by 1st April 2015, or must be expecting to have had their viva by this date.
King’s operates an internal review process for this scheme, with an internal deadline of 19th September for full drafts of applications. Initial enquiries and expressions of interest are welcome in early September. Please contact Professor Patrick ffrench (patrick.ffrench@kcl.ac.uk) for further information.
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
University of Liverpool, Department of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
Liverpool closing date: 23 September 2014
BA closing date: 8 October 2014
The Department of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies (CLAS) at the University of Liverpool welcomes expressions of interest from researchers intending to apply to the 2015 round of the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. Our disciplines include French Studies, German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Studies (including Basque, Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese), and Italian Studies.
Research in CLAS is characterized by an interest in the global dimensions of language-based study, including Francophone. Hispanic and Lusophone cultures and societies outside of Europe; migrant and transnational cultures in Europe; multilingualism; world cinema; the cultural impacts of European expansion and colonialism; global Black Studies; and the processes of translation and transculturation implicit in all those encounters. Particular research strengths of the department include: popular culture; visual culture; literary studies; digital culture; gender and sexuality; historical studies; transnational, postnational and postcolonial studies; migration and diaspora and sociolinguistics. The department has a vibrant and active research culture, with research grouped around several clusters including Histories and Memories; Beyond the Text; Migrations/Places/Identities; Post-colonialisms; and Sociolinguistics. We are well equipped to support research that is comparative or relational, and which crosses languages and national borders. In addition, CLAS staff are active in a range of research centres at Liverpool, including the Centre for the Study of International Slavery and Eighteenth-Century Worlds, and lead on the institutional theme of Changing Cultures.
For details of staff research expertise specifically in French and Francophone Studies, see:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/cultures-languages-and-area-studies/french/research/
Individual staff research profiles can be accessed here:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/cultures-languages-and-area-studies/staff/
Researchers interested in applying for a Fellowship hosted by Liverpool are asked to submit a 1000-word outline of their proposed research project setting out its aims and objectives, research questions, methodology, originality, and the proposed outputs. Proposals will be reviewed internally by the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, of which CLAS is a part, to select the most promising for submission to the BA. Outlines must be submitted by 5pm (UK time) on 23 September to Dr Kay Chadwick (ckc@liverpool.ac.uk), CLAS Research and KE Lead, to whom informal enquiries may also be directed before that date.
For eligibility criteria and full details of the application process, see the BA website:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/Postdoctoral_Fellowships_FAQs.cfm