These studentships are competitive. We recommend contacting the relevant Subject Leads significantly before the application deadline so they can connect you with a supervisor: Dr Patrick Andelic (History & Music) patrick.andelic@northumbria.ac.uk, Dr Paul Frazer (English Literature & Creative Writing) paul.frazer@northumbria.ac.uk, Dr Mimi Huang (Language & Linguistics) mimi.huang@northumbria.ac.uk.
We welcome proposals within:
American Studies: aspects of American or United States history, literature, and culture from the pre-1776 American colonies onwards.
Conflict and Society: the study of ‘conflict’, including Holocaust and genocide, war, civilian-domestic life, nationalism, loyalism, pacifism, and memory.
Creative Writing: practice-led research projects in prose or poetry.
Environmental Humanities: any aspect of environmental history and literature, including environmental management and activism, nature writing and ecocriticism.
Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies: any aspect of C18 literary culture, especially print, periodicals, and scholarly editing; medical and environmental humanities; women's writing; heritage, the arts, and theatre.
Gendered Subjects: any aspects of British/North American representation of gender and/or sexual identities, in fiction, magazines, film and television, including queer and feminist theory.
Global and Transnational History: global, transnational, and spatial approaches; identities and boundaries; organised cross-border networks; migration and diaspora; cultural interactions; global political economy, capitalism, technology.
Histories of Activism: approaches and perspectives on activism, locally and globally. Expertise on transnational activism, anti-imperialism, culture, race, gender, society, education, left/right politics.
Language and Linguistics: applied linguistics, forensic linguistics, language education, sociolinguistics, language and cognition, discourse analysis and stylistics, language variation and change, language attitudes, pragmatics, evolution of communication.
Medicine, Health, and Wellbeing in the Humanities: histories, communications, literary and cultural representations of health, illness, medicine, and wellbeing; mental and cognitive health, illness, and wellbeing; health inequalities and marginalisation; allied health humanities; critical medical humanities.
Medieval and Early Modern Studies: expertise on Britain, Ireland, France, Poland-Lithuania, and Spain, especially cultural, environmental, political, religious, social, and gender history; literature, music, art, print/manuscript studies, reception/adaptation studies, critical-creative approaches.
Music: social and cultural histories of music; music and politics; opera; historical performance practice; critical editing; material cultures (print, manuscript, instruments); auditory cultures; musical mobilities; myth and literature; pre-modern music-making.
Power, Politics, and Pedagogy: politics of education; feminism; law; migration and multilingualism; histories of racism and slavery; social and linguistic inclusion/exclusion; social justice.
Scholarly Editing and Print Culture: book history, print cultures, bibliography, digitisation, textual scholarship.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Academic excellence i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities with preference for 1st class honours); or a Masters (preference for Merit or above); or APEL evidence of substantial practitioner achievement.
- Appropriate IELTS score, if required.
- Applicants cannot apply if they are already a PhD holder or if currently engaged in Doctoral study at Northumbria or elsewhere.
To be classed as a Home student, candidates must:
- Be a UK National (meeting residency requirements), or
- have settled status, or
- have pre-settled status (meeting residency requirements), or
- have indefinite leave to remain or enter.
If a candidate does not meet this criteria, they would be classed as an International student.
Applicants will need to be in UK and fully enrolled before stipend payments can commence and cover additional costs that may be incurred, as these are not covered by the studentship.Examples at https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/studentships/rdf/
· If you need to apply for a Student Visa to enter the UK, please refer to https://www.gov.uk/student-visa. It is your responsibility to ensure that you hold the correct funds required for your visa application, otherwise your visa may be refused.
APPLY NOW: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/
In your application, please include a research proposal of approximately 1,000 words and the advert reference RDF24/ADSS/HUMANITIES.
Deadline for applications: 26 January 2024
Start date of course: 1 October 2024
Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our postgraduate research students. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers.
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