About the Project
Creative Writing at Northumbria has established itself as an acknowledged centre of practice-led research within the Humanities, as is evident in its staff and postgraduate student publications as well as Research Council Fellowship awards. The Creative Writing Research Group is part of the Institute of the Humanities, an initiative that brings together a range of disciplines to foster collaboration, innovation and cross-fertilisation on themes such as activism; environmental humanities; area studies; gender and sexuality; mobility, diaspora and borders; heritage and identity; and medical humanities.
This studentship will support practice-led research into specific stylistic/technical features foregrounded in creative work engaged with one or more of these themes. The successful candidate will, through the writing of a book-length creative work (weighted at 70% of the project), investigate ways in which certain creative modes are particularly relevant in representing and critically engaging with at least one of the Institute’s themes.
Alongside the creative work the candidate will reflect critically on his or her practice to consider, for example, historical examples of a specific mode (when was that mode first used, and why); its current status (is it popular now, and why); distinct linguistic/artistic features of its function in creative writing; attitudes to the use of that mode in the creative industries (agents, publishers, marketing, etc.). This commentary will be weighted at 30% of the project.
Modes which staff in creative writing are interested in working with include (but are not limited to):
• tense (particularly present tense)
• point of view (particularly limited omniscient)
• person (particularly second person)
Your creative work might be in prose or poetry, including hybrid or innovative forms, and it could extend into the broader landscape of practice-led research. Creative Writing is centrally involved with the Northumbria Practice Research Group, a new interdisciplinary space in which to share ideas, experiences, and expertise related to all forms of practice research both within and beyond the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Science.
Eligibility and How to Apply:
Please note eligibility requirement:
• Academic excellence of the proposed student i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities [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 for this funding if currently engaged in Doctoral study at Northumbria or elsewhere.
For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/
Please note: Applications that do not include a research proposal of approximately 1,000 words (not a copy of the advert), or that do not include the advert reference (e.g. RDF18/…) will not be considered.
Deadline for applications: 28 January 2018
Start Date: 1 October 2018
Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers
Funding Notes
The studentship includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates (for 2017/18, this is £14,553 pa) and fees
References
Prof Michael Cawood Green:
For the Sake of Silence. (Quartet Books, 2010)
‘Ghosting Through: Commemorating George Elliott Benson’, The Hexham Historian 24, Hexham Local History Society, 2014
‘Professing Silence: Imaginative Writing and the Academy’, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Vol 9, Issue 3, 2012, pp.319—330.
‘The experimental line in fiction’. In: The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Editors David Attwell and Derek Attridge. Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 779-799.
‘Deplorations: Coetzee, Costello and Doubling the N’. In: Postcolonialism: South/African Perspectives. Editor: Michael Chapman. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp.125-148.
Dr Fiona Shaw:
Outwalkers, (David Fickling Books, Feb 2018), forthcoming
A Stone’s Throw (Serprent’s Tail, 2012)
Tell it to the Bees (Serpent’s Tail, 2009)
Dr Andrew Crumey:
Sackville, Amy, Moss, Sarah, Kavenna, Joanna and Crumey, Andrew. ‘Thinking through Thinking through Fiction: a round table’. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. 2017
‘Teaching creative writing’. Review of Contemporary Fiction, 32 (3), 2012, p. 114.
‘Eclipse’. In: I Am Because You Are. (Freight Books, 2015).
‘The Burrows.’ In: The Seven Wonders of Scotland. Birlinn, 2012, pp. 25-43.
The Great Chain of Unbeing. (Dedalus Books, 2018)
The Secret Knowledge. (Dedalus Books, 2013)
Singularity. [Broadcast, 2012]
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