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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Students<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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,
<span style="color:black">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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>The 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" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Linguistics, in particular corpus linguistics, language change, language and the media, sociolinguistics, language contact and bilingualism, pragmatics, stylistics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Romantic and Nineteenth Century literary and intellectual history<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:35.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century drama and literature<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:35.7pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Contemporary drama and theatre studies<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Film narrative and theory<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>History and theory of modernist literature, art, and music.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Poetry and poetics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Critical and aesthetic theory<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Creative Writing (poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Philosophy, especially aesthetics, (applied) epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and mathematics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify">
For full details of research specialisms in the School see <a href="http://www.bcu.ac.uk/english/staff">
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/english/staff</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Please send initial expressions of interest and research proposals to
<a href="mailto:andrew.kehoe@bcu.ac.uk">andrew.kehoe@bcu.ac.uk</a> before Friday 12<sup>th</sup> December 2014. The deadline for completed applications is Wednesday 14<sup>th</sup> January 2015 at 12 noon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><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> or contact
<a href="mailto:enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk">enquiries@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/english/staff/andrew-kehoe">http://www.bcu.ac.uk/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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