The School of Arts and Media
at the University of Salford is inviting applications to our PhD programme. The
School is a member of the North West Consortium (alongside Liverpool, Manchester
University, MMU, Keele, Lancaster and the Royal Northern College of Music) that
was recently awarded an AHRC Block Grant Partnership, which provides a series of
studentships that are supplemented by other studentships funded by the School.
These awards benefit from their location in the vibrant and culturally-rich
cites of the North West
Applicants applying to work
in Creative Writing, English and Linguistics can apply for studentships on a
competitive basis with applicants to other subjects within the school and to
other institutions within the consortium. For UK students or students from EU
countries who have been resident for at least three years in the UK, these
awards cover both fees and maintenance and for EU residents awards are on a fees
only basis.
If you are interested in
applying for a PhD in Creative Writing, English and Linguistics at Salford,
please contact the Director of Research for English, Scott Thurston
(s.thurston@salford.ac.uk) who will help guide you through the process. Below is
a list of our research interests and staff:
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Any aspects of nineteenth,
twentieth and twenty-first century British, Irish and Global Literature and
Culture with additional foci on Gender, Sexuality and Deviance; Post-Colonial
Studies; Global Modernisms; Conflict, Violence and Memory. Staff include:
Caroline Magennis, Jade Munslow Ong, Janice Allan, Jane Kilby, Glyn White,
Carson Bergstrom, Andrew Cooper, Francis Piper.
CREATIVE WRITING
We have a strong record of
practice-based research in Creative Writing. PhDs are composed of a substantial
creative project with an accompanying contextualising document of at least
25,000 words. Areas include: Visual Text, Experimental Fiction, Creative
Non-Fiction, Literary Biography, Young Adult Fiction, Post-Dramatic Performance,
Innovative and Experimental Poetry. Staff include: Ursula Hurley, Gill James,
Judy Kendall, Scott Thurston, Kate Adams, Szilvi Naray-Davey.
Prospective applicants who
are interested in applying and eligible for funding will need to submit a draft
PhD proposal by Wednesday the 3 December, 2014. Please send this directly to the
Director of Research for English Dr Scott Thurston: s.thurston@salford.ac.uk
and to CASS-PGRSupport@salford.ac.uk
Following that it will be
necessary to complete a formal application for PhD study at the University of
Salford by the 23rd of January 2015, available here:
The deadline for the formal
application to the Northwest Consortium is before 5PM on the 13th of February
2015.
For further information,
please see these links:
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