[ecrea] Funded Film and Digital Media PhDs, Royal Holloway

PHDS IN FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL ARTS
AT ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

The Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, is 
inviting applicants to our PhD programme.  The Faculty of Arts and 
Social Sciences at Royal Holloway is a member of TECHNE, a consortium 
that has been awarded an AHRC Block Grant Partnership.  This provides 
studentships of three years maintenance at £16,057 per year and three 
years full-time fees for UK students and full-time fees for European 
students.

Royal Holloway has also been awarded Leverhulme Magna Carta scholarships 
for interdisciplinary doctoral training on the theme of Freedom and the 
Rights of the Individual in the Digital Age.  These scholarships are 
funded at the same level as the TECHNE awards.

Students who apply for these awards will also be considered 
automatically for College Scholarships.

The department has a wide variety of recognized strengths in research, 
ranging from modernist art practices to British cinema to TV history and 
aesthetics.  Applications are welcomed for doctoral research by 
traditional scholarly methodologies and by creative practice. You may 
consult our list of staff and their research interests for guidance on 
possibly supervisory expertise at: 
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/mediaarts/research/researchinterests.aspx.

For the Techne award we particularly seek proposals in the aesthetics of 
cinema and digital media, modernism and film, Hollywood history, Asian 
cinemas, and transnational and diasporic cinemas.  For the Leverhulme 
scholarship suggested topics include the ethical challenges in the 
collection, use, dissemination and destruction of data; and developing 
new opportunities for enhancing democracy and debate using digital 
communications.

Applicants for funded research are asked to submit a preliminary 
research proposal of at least 1500 words and a current CV to the 
department’s Director of Postgraduate Research, Mandy Merck, at 
(m.merck /at/ rhul.ac.uk) by December 11, 2015, in order to prepare final 
applications by the Leverhulme Magna Carta deadline of 27 January 2016 
and the TECHNE deadline of 7 February 2016.

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