Applications are invited for undertaking research for a PhD research project entitled ‘Language in Corona Times’. This project will explore literature and language expressing suffering and finding healing through grief and mourning during/after the COVID-19 outbreak.
The lead PhD project supervisor will be Dr Catherine Wynne, Reader in the Department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies at the University of Hull.
In the project the successful applicant will address the following research questions:
- How is published prose and poetry being used (differently) to commemorate loss?
- How has literature and language been adapted in previous pandemics?
- What language (if any) is useful/comforting in unprecedented times?
- How is the language of memorialisation and eulogies, adapted/ changed in online funerals and commemorations?
As this is an interdisciplinary cluster, the successful candidate will be a member of the Department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies and also have a base in the ‘Living with Death – Learning from COVID’s’ home Department of Geography, Geology and Environment at the University of Hull.
The supervisory team for this doctoral project also includes Dr Bethan Jones (English, Creative Writing and American Studies) and Dr Duncan Hunter (School of Education).
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Catherine Wynne, [Email Address Removed]
For more information, watch a recording here of a webinar held in December 2021. You'll hear from programme leaders, supervisors and students talking about the funded opportunities available.
About the ‘Living with Death – Learning from COVID’ research cluster
This multi-disciplinary research cluster programme with five PhD projects will investigate, identify, understand and suggest mitigations for the unintended medium-longer term consequences of socially distanced death. In collaborating across social sciences, health and humanities we will engage with and evaluate approaches (e.g. funeral practices, story telling) to alleviating the intense suffering, grief and bereavement of COVID-19.
The ‘Living with Death – Learning from COVID’ research cluster is led by PI Dr Elsbeth Robson, Reader in Human Geography ([Email Address Removed]).
Submission of thesis
Submission of your final thesis is expected within three years and three months from the start of your PhD scholarship for full time and within five years and six months if studying part-time.
If you need to move into a fourth year (full time) or sixth year (part-time) to complete your thesis, please note that you will not receive a tuition fee waiver or maintenance grant during this period.
Eligibility, entry requirements and how to apply
To find out more about the eligibility criteria, entry requirements and how to apply, please visit the University of Hull PhD scholarships webpage.
International applicants
This opportunity comes with a home fee waiver only.
Closing date for applications
Midnight, 31 January 2022
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