The School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester seeks expressions of interest from prospective research students for the 2018 AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership research funding. Applications are now open and will close on 5 January 2018. For more information about the Midlands 3 Cities Doctoral Training Centre and for details of eligibility, funding and the application process, please see below and visit the consortium’s website www.midlands3cities.ac.uk.
Areas of expertise
The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester is inviting applications from students whose research falls within the following research areas:
- Film, bande dessinée, theatre and visual culture
- Politics and cultures
- Gender studies
- Contemporary cultural and literary studies
- Postcolonial, migration and regional studies
- Latin American culture, travel writing and literary theory
- Memory and Holocaust studies
- Translation and interpreting
How do students apply?
Potential applicants can use the supervisor search tool on the M3C website to identify a possible supervisory team in their research area: http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/research-opportunities/supervisors.aspx in combination with the Modern Languages website at the University of Leicester: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/modern-languages/people-1, which also includes contact details of PhD supervisors. Further details on the application process can be found here: https://www2.le.ac.uk/research-degrees/funding/ahrc/info