AHRC funding for UK/EU arts and humanities 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. The DTP, a collaboration between De Montfort University and the universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, Birmingham and Birmingham City, 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 Media Discourse Group at De Montfort University dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/technology/media-discourse/media-discourse-group.aspx> is inviting applications from students whose research interests include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following: • Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Texts • Television History: memory and identity • Multi-Modal Analysis of Online Texts • Gender and Identity • Social Media and Protest • The Mediation of Disability • Sub-cultures and Music • Advertising and Corporate Communication • The Mediation of Events • Television and Broadcast Talk • The Mediation of Security The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 9 January 2014, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact [email protected] .
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