Queen Mary's Doctoral College is awarding over £10million in studentships to support the most talented and ambitious new researchers. Successful applicants will receive generous studentships to cover fees and living costs in recognition of the vital role that they will play in Queen Mary's lively research community. Self-funded applicants are also welcome to apply for a PhD in any of the areas in which we can offer supervision.
Queen Mary University of London is part of the 24 strong Russell Group of elite research intensive universities that together attract well over two-thirds of all available research funding in the UK and account for the same proportion of the very best research (‘world-leading') in the country.
Subject areas
Our academics provide PhD supervision in a wide range of subject areas across the arts including:
• Comparative Literature
• Drama
• English
• Film Studies
• History
The School of English and Drama offers supervision across a wide range of topics. Within Drama, this is encompassed by our four main - but overlapping - strands of research, on cultural histories of performance, transnational performance, live art, and applied performance. We also welcome proposals for interdisciplinary projects, especially with Geography, Film, Business and Management, English, Languages and History.
The Department of English is widely recognized as one of the country's leading centres for literary research, with an international reputation for our pioneering interdisciplinary and collaborative work attracting postgraduate students from all over the world. We have specialists who can offer supervision in the following periods of study: Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern, Eighteenth Century and Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Modern and Contemporary and Postcolonial.
The world-renowned academic staff in our School of History can offer PhD supervision in late medieval and early modern history; the history of Islam and the Crusades; Jewish history; the history of the emotions, of ideas and of political thought, of medicine; and modern British, European, US and global history.
Queen Mary's School of Languages, Linguistics and Film provides PhD studentships across a wide range of areas including: Comparative Literature; Film Studies, particularly European queer theory and film; French literature, thought, visual culture, and sociolinguistics; German Studies especially Anglo-German cultural relations; Russian film, cultural identity, and literary history.
Application deadlines
To apply for a PhD studentship at Queen Mary, please visit our website and follow the application guidelines. Please note the deadlines below:
• 31 January 2015: All studentships unless specified elsewhere
To find out more and apply for PhDs and studentships, please visit http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/scholarships/index.html
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