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[ecrea] PhD Scholarships, University of Glamorgan

Mon Sep 24 17:53:34 GMT 2012


*Centenary Doctoral Scholarships at University of Glamorgan*

In 2013 Glamorgan University will celebrate 100 years and to mark this celebration the university is making available 20 Centenary Doctoral Scholarships. These are intended to provide financial support to 20 home/EU students to undertake a PhD at the University of Glamorgan. For more information see: http://office.research.glam.ac.uk/centenary/.

The scholarships cover a wide range of subjects including those related to media, culture and creative industries (http://office.research.glam.ac.uk/culcre/),including one on /The Future of Arts Programming in a Multiplatform Digital Market /and another on /How Local Celebrity is Created and Managed in UK Nations and Regions./

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Based in the School for Creative and Cultural Industries, and as part of the faculty’s continuing interest in cultures of creative production and celebrity, the supervisory teams wish to recruit a suitably qualified PhD candidate. The specific nature of the projects can be defined further by the recipient’s own interests, however the ideal candidate will be familiar with a range of qualitative data collection methods including interviewing and textual analysis.

*/The Future of Arts Programming in a Multiplatform Digital Market – Dr. Caitriona Noonan/*

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Arts programming has traditionally been viewed as an important part of broadcasting’s social responsibility. However, despite some successful attempts to broaden the appeal of this genre it was recently announced that arts programming was one of the hardest hit in relation to cuts on production, with spending down 15% amongst the UK’s terrestrial channels. The focus of this project will be on the ways in which the concept of public service broadcasting, as articulated through arts programming, is negotiated within the practices of media professionals; in particular how their norms, values and routines condition the production of this programming and how these are evolving in an era of niche channelling and multiplatform provision. It will also locate these shifts within wider industry tensions and trends (e.g. specialist versus generalist production, international co-productions, overseas sales, use of celebrities and popular formats, etc).

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*/How Local Celebrity is Created and Managed in UK Nations and Regions – Dr. Rebecca Williams/*

Against the backdrop of developments in small UK nations and regions regarding media production, this research project considers how local celebrity is created and managed in UK nations and regions. It explores the impact of institutional contexts on how celebrity is constructed and managed in local/regional contexts via the case studies of BBC production centres in Cardiff, Salford, and Glasgow. It focuses on these key sites of media production and potential celebrity to explore how celebrity is drawn upon and used in the discussion and promotion of these locations, and will aim to draw on the views of a range of cultural intermediaries in fields such as media production, tourism, local councils and other government groups, and local figures/celebrities themselves.

*/Start Date/*

The successful candidates for both of these projects will start no later than the end of January 2013.Any questions about these particular projects can be directed to (cnoonan /at/ glam.ac.uk) <mailto:(cnoonan /at/ glam.ac.uk)> or (rwillia3 /at/ glam.ac.uk) <mailto:(rwillia3 /at/ glam.ac.uk)>. Application forms are available on http://office.research.glam.ac.uk/centenary/ and should be returned directly to *Dr Louise Bright *(researchoffice /at/ glam.ac.uk) <mailto:(researchoffice /at/ glam.ac.uk)>* **by no later than the _15th October 2012._***


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