Gender Affect: Experiencing Political and Economic Insecurity in a Post-Neoliberal Age

We would welcome applications from prospective PhD students wishing to work on questions of gender and affective labour under the supervision of Dr Stéphanie Genz. The project is interested in examining the affective dimensions of contemporary gendered experiences that typify gender politics and its narratives about socioeconomic privilege and insecurity. It aims to investigate and quantify different forms of affective labour that make meaningful (i.e. valuable) specific forms of gendered/racial/class identities and evaluate how this affective labour functions within these different domains in order to better understand gendered experiences in post-neoliberal societies.
Proposals relating to any of the following areas may be especially welcome: gender and recession; self-branding and emotive consumption; postfeminist/neoliberal politics; online modes of self-fashioning and activist campaigning; bodily entrepreneurship.

Specific qualifications/subject areas required of the applicants for this project
Entrants must have a first/undergraduate Honours degree, with an Upper Second Class or a First Class grade, in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies and/or Gender Studies. Entrants with a Lower Second Class grade at first degree must also have a postgraduate Masters Degree at Merit.
Panel members who will perform shortlisting

Chair: Professor Nahem Yousaf, E-mail
Panel member 1: Professor Gill Allwood, E-mail
Panel member 2: Dr Stéphanie Genz, [Email Address Removed]
Panel member 3: Professor Martin O’Shaughnessy, [Email Address Removed]

Interviews are likely to take place on the following dates: TBC 17/1/2018 to 18/1/2018

This studentship competition is open to applicants who wish to study for a PhD on a full-time basis only. The studentship will pay UK/EU fees (currently set at £4,195 for 2017/18 and are revised annually) and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (this is revised annually and is currently set at £14,553 for the academic year 2017/18) for up to three years. Applications from non-EU students are welcome, but a successful non-EU candidate would be responsible for paying the difference between non-EU and UK/EU fees. (Fees for 2017/18 are £12,900 for non-EU students and £4,195 for UK/EU students). The studentships will be expected to commence in October 2018.