[Corpora-List] Doctoral Studentships at Birmingham City University, UK

[Andrew Kehoe]

AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Students

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.

The School of English at Birmingham City University is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:


*                    Linguistics, in particular corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, language and the media, language and gender, ethnographic approaches to linguistic variation and change, pragmatics, stylistics

*                    Romantic and 19th Century literary and intellectual history

*                    17th and 18th Century drama and literature

*                    Contemporary drama and theatre studies

*                    Film narrative and theory

*                    History and theory of modernist literature, art, and music.

*                    Poetry and poetics

*                    Critical and aesthetic theory

*                    Creative Writing

*                    Philosophy, in particular aesthetics, (applied) epistemology, history of analytic philosophy, jurisprudence, philosophy of education, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and pragmatism

For full details of research specialisms in the School see:
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff

Please send initial expressions of interest and research proposals to liz.reeve at bcu.ac.uk<mailto:liz.reeve at bcu.ac.uk> by Monday 9th December 2013. 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.

For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/

Best wishes

Andrew Kehoe
Deputy Head of School
Director, Research & Development Unit for English Studies
Course Director, MA in English Linguistics (Distance Learning)
School of English
Birmingham City University
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/school-of-english/staff/andrew-kehoe
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/english-linguistics
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