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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Students<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the arts and humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between Birmingham City University,
 the University of Birmingham, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Leicester and De Montfort University, provides research students with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional
 supervision where appropriate, subject specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <b>School of English at Birmingham City University</b> is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Linguistics, in particular corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, language and the media, language and gender, ethnographic approaches to linguistic variation and change, pragmatics, stylistics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Romantic and 19th Century literary and intellectual history<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>17th and 18th Century drama and literature<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Contemporary drama and theatre studies<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Film narrative and theory<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>History and theory of modernist literature, art, and music.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Poetry and poetics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Critical and aesthetic theory<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Creative Writing<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                   
</span></span><![endif]>Philosophy, in particular aesthetics, (applied) epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, jurisprudence, philosophy of education, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and pragmatism<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For full details of research specialisms in the School see: <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff">http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff</a>  <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please send initial expressions of interest and research proposals to
<a href="mailto:liz.reeve@bcu.ac.uk">liz.reeve@bcu.ac.uk</a> by <b>Monday 9th December 2013</b>. The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 9 January 2014, by which time students must have applied to the School of English for a place to study and have provided
 two references. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit
<a href="http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/">http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Andrew Kehoe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Deputy Head of School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Director, Research & Development Unit for English Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Course Director, MA in English Linguistics (Distance Learning)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Birmingham City University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff/andrew-kehoe" target="_blank">http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff/andrew-kehoe</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/english-linguistics" target="_blank">http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/english-linguistics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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