[Air-L] MPhil/PhD studentships at Birkbeck: Applications Due 17 February 2014

[Scott Rodgers]

Dear all:

 

Birkbeck’s School
 of Arts is currently
inviting applications for up to 17 Postgraduate Research Scholarships, which consist of full home/EU
postgraduate fee waivers and an annual stipend at research council rates. Some
of these studentships may be awarded for research proposals in the areas
covered by the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies. 

 

For further information about
Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, as well as information on the
postgraduate research funding application procedures in the School of Arts, see
below. Please contact the departmental member(s) you feel most directly relates
to your research, but send any general enquires to Dr. Tim Markham, Director of
Postgraduate Research, at t.markham at bbk.ac.uk.

 

About Research in the Department of Film, Media and
Cultural Studies

 

The Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck hosts a wide range of
research areas, including: arts policy and management; curatorial studies;
digital media; East Asian cultural studies; film, television and moving image;
journalism studies; media and cultural theory; and performance.

 

We invite research proposals in any of the broad
research areas above – including proposals for practice-based research – and
are particularly interested in research projects which pose questions related
to one or more of the following themes:

 

·        
Bodies/Affect/Experience

·        
Cultural
Exchange/Media Flows

·        
Cultural
Histories/Archive/Memory

·        
Gender/Sexuality/Representation

·        
Identity/Subjectivity/Crisis

·        
Media/Cities/Space

·        
Politics/Media/Social
Change

·        
Post-media/Convergence/Expanded
Media

 

M.Phil/PhD Research Funding in
Birkbeck’s School of Arts

 

Birkbeck’s School
 of Arts invites
applications for M.Phil/PhD research funding for the 14/15 academic year. Please
see link below for information, guidance, application forms and deadlines.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/research/research-bursaries-studentships-funding

 

We now invite applications for up to 17 Postgraduate
Research Scholarships. These consist of full home/EU postgraduate fee
waivers and a stipend at research council rates (currently £15,726 per annum)
and include a number of Birkbeck Anniversary Scholarships to mark the 190th anniversary
of the College's foundation.

 

We also invite applications for Arts Research Studentships (ARS) consisting of part/full fee waivers for students
applying to undertake postgraduate research in the departments of English & Humanities, European Languages & Cultures, History of Art, Iberian & Latin American Studies, and Film, Media & Cultural Studies, as well as via the School’s Arts and Humanities PhD Programme.

 

Other full awards, such as the competition for AHRC
studentships under named calls, will have separate application procedures.
Please check the website for
notifications, application procedures and staff contacts. Any further specific
funding opportunities (such as the Murray and Sasakawa
funds) will be listed there.