To celebrate the University's research successes, the University of Hull is offering 13 full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarships or International Fees Bursaries for candidates applying within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, including the areas listed below.
Closing date: - 3rd February 2014.
Studentships will start on 29th September 2014
Drama:
• Applied theatre and performance (particularly disability culture and performance; democracy and theatre; notions of aesthetics and participation)
• Critical theory and theatre (particularly queer theory; historiography; theories of cultural re-location)
• The translation of drama/theatre/performance, with a view to material evidence relating to dramaturgy, cultural and production contexts, acculturation, reception, adaptation, re-imagining or performance
• Practice as Research examining the production of space and place in performance, particularly projects with an emphasis on researching the intersections between embodied experience, scenic design and audience reception
• Studies in relation to scenography for Shakespeare in the Czech Republic (and former Czechoslovakia) from 1880 to the present day.For this topic candidates will need to be fully bilingual in English and Czech, or Slovak.
English
can offer supervision in most areas of English Literature from Old Norse to the twenty-first century. It is particularly keen to encourage proposals for scholarships in the following areas which reflect the department's international research strengths:
• Medieval literature (eg. Old Norse sagas, medieval English Romance and prophecy, medievalism, outlaws)
• Renaissance and early modern literature (eg. trans-cultural Shakespeare; Shakespeare and early modern drama; literature and politics)
• Eighteenth-century literature
• Nineteenth and early twentieth-century writing and culture (eg. the work of Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker and D.H. Lawrence)
• Modern and Contemporary Writing (especially crime or gothic fiction)
• Creative Writing (especially poetry)
Proposals are also welcomed in the following interdisciplinary topics (to be co-supervised where relevant with staff in Education, Geography and Faculty of Health and Social Care):
• Literature and education (eg. ‘Teaching Shakespeare and the Early Modern: from College to Campus'; Teaching Poetry in the 21st Century)
• Creative writing and place (eg. Writing the Trade Routes; Writing the Cultural City)
• Literature and place (eg. Reading Cultures of the City: Past and Present)
• Medical Humanities (eg. Reading Illness Narratives)
Film Studies unit (within the School of Drama, Music and Screen)
can offer supervision in a wide range of areas within Film and Television Studies. It is particularly keen to receive proposals in the following areas, which reflect our research expertise:
• 21st -century American apocalyptic and horror cinema
• American Animation history (cinematic and/or televisual)
• American cinema and gender
• British television
• Disney studio history
• film/television aesthetics and narratology
• film/television and memory/history/the past
• Hollywood Horror (in particular, historical studies and children's horror)
• television and material culture/the domestic
• television, identity and lifestyle
• television and intermediality/issues of medium specificity
• US television (particularly contemporary drama)
Please see the Screen website for further information: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/drama,-music-and-screen/film-studies.aspx
History
has over 30 staff whose scholarship ranges from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century and stretches from the Americas to Australia, via Britain and Europe, the Middle East, and India and south Asia. We welcome applications in any of our areas of research expertise, and particularly in the following fields:
• Maritime history
• European history since 1500
• Slavery, abolition and emancipation
• Medieval history
• Environmental history
• States, diplomacy and warfare
• Empires
• Economic development, networks and social capital
• Intellectual history
Projects which combine two or more of these areas are also welcome.
Information about the History Department, potential supervisors and current PhD students can be found at http://www.hull.ac.uk/history
For further details about PhD study please contact the Director of PhD Provision, Dr Douglas Hamilton: d.hamilton@hull.ac.uk
Law School
s inviting applications for a number of PhD Scholarships for the September 2014 entry to its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme. The scholarships provide the opportunity for successful applicants to work closely with our academic colleagues, many of whom are research leaders in their field, to pursue distinctive and innovative legal research projects at PhD level. If you are a high performing undergraduate or Master's student and have the qualities required to be a successful doctoral student you could be selected to receive a scholarship including full tuition fees and a generous stipend for a PhD place at Hull Law School. We provide our PhD students with excellent facilities, expert supervision and academic support in an intellectually stimulating environment that embraces legal research in all its forms. We encourage applications from high-performing students proposing PhD projects on any topic related to our research interests and expertise.
Potential applicants should consult the Law School Directory of Staff Research Supervision Interests here
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/law/courses/higher-degrees-by-research.aspx
and also view individual staff web pages for details of areas in which our staff are keen to supervise research students. We strongly encourage you to discuss an idea informally with a potential supervisor before moving to a formal application. Please contact the appropriate member of staff by email.
Music (from the School of Drama, Music and Screen)
invites applications from prospective graduates wishing to undertake research at PhD level in musicology, composition, or performance (including conducting).
Proposals will be considered from candidates with research projects that relate to music staff specialisms (see music staff pages on the website http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/drama,-music-and-screen/music.aspx).
• In musicology, students wishing to specialize in British music, 18th-century opera, jazz/popular music studies, music psychology, record production, or words/music (including Shakespeare and music) are encouraged.
• In composition, supervision is available in both acoustic and electro-acoustic/sonic arts practice.
• In performance, students can embrace classical, jazz and/or popular traditions.
Music at Hull has a vibrant research culture and a record of high-quality achievement. The School boasts distinguished scholars and practitioners in the research areas named above.
Please see the departmental website for further information about current research in Drama at the University of Hull: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/drama,-music-and-screen/drama/research.aspx
Philosophy
• Philosophy of Images (including photography)
• Gender Theory
• The Theory of Value
• Thought and Experience
• Embodiment
• History of Philosophy (including Ancient Philosophy, Idealism, Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Wittgenstein)
Please see departmental website for further information about staff research: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/philosophy/research.aspx
Politics and International Studies
• Security Studies (including China and Contemporary Security)
• Trust and Parliament
• European Union
• The Conservative-Liberal Coalition's Welfare State Reforms
• Britain in an Age of Austerity
• History of Philosophy (including ancient philosophy, idealism, nineteenth century German philosophy, Wittgenstein)
Please see departmental website for further information about staff research: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/politics-and-international-stu/research.aspx
School of Arts and New Media (Digital Media),
Scarborough campus, of the University of Hull welcomes applications for the University Scholarship Round in areas linked to staff interest and expertise. We particularly welcome applications that fit within the following thematic areas:
• Creative Speech Technology
• Creative Technologies and Digital Platforms
• Digital Archiving and Heritage
• Digital Curation
• Digital Narratives and Audiences
If you would like to discuss your application before submission, please in the first instance, contact Dr. Christopher Newell (c.newell@hull.ac.uk<mailto:c.newell@hull.ac.uk>).
Please see departmental website for further information about staff research: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/scarborough/campus-departments/sanm/research.aspx
The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
invites PhD proposals in the following thematic areas:
• Visual Cultures;
• Popular Cultures;
• Gender,
• Sexuality and Representation;
• Linguistics and Translation Studies;
• Culture, History and Politics.
Within these overarching themes, we are particularly interested in receiving applications falling within the disciplines of:
American, French, German and Hispanic Studies.
Please see the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures website for more details of specific expertise offered by members of staff in the School within these broad areas. ' (http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/school-of-languages,-linguisti/research.aspx
and http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/american-studies/our-research.aspx)
American Studies
In history, our principal areas of expertise include:
• war and 20th-century American society
• history on film
• the Cold War era
• the African American experience during and after the Civil Rights movement
• Mexican American history
• Gang culture and the incarceral society
• In literary and cultural studies, the main areas of research activity include:
• Modernist and Postmodernist aesthetics
• the racing and gendering of contemporary American culture
• cinematic and televisual narratives
• twentieth century visual art (painting, photography, sculpture, architecture)
• modern American poetry
• conspiracy culture at the turn of the millennium
The School of Social Sciences
can offer supervision in the following disciplinary and interdisciplinary thematic areas of study:
• Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Community and Youth Studies
• Contemporary Slavery Studies
• End of Life Studies
• Ethics and Social Justice
• Gender and Sexualities
• Globalization, Power and Post-Colonialism
• Media, Culture & Society
• Health, Welfare and Social Inclusion
• Religion, Culture and Society
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Social Policy
Please consult the school website for further information about our research, including research centres and individual staff expertise:
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/social_sciences.aspx
To apply for these posts please click on the Apply button below
In order to qualify for this scholarship you will require a 2.1 in a relevant subject and be studying for a Masters.
Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship will include fees at the ‘home/EU' student rate and maintenance (£13,726 in 2013/14) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.
Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependent on satisfactory progress.
PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.
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