[ecrea] AHRC-funded PhD studentship on Creative Interruptions Project

Applications are still welcome for this exciting PhD studentship 
opportunity.

More details here:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANT959/ahrc-funded-phd-in-literature-and-partition-creative-interruptions-grassroots-creativity-state-structures-and-disconnection-as-a-space-for-radical-openness/

*AHRC-funded PhD in Literature and Partition - ‘Creative Interruptions: 
Grassroots Creativity, State Structures and Disconnection as a Space for 
'Radical Openness'’*

*University of Strathclyde *

Qualification type:

	

PhD

Location:

	

Glasgow

Funding for:

	

UK Students, EU Students

Funding amount:

	

Not specified

Hours:

	

Full Time

Placed on:

	

27th May 2016

Closes:

	

30th June 2016

	

*Scholarship Summary*

This PhD studentship is attached to a new, large AHRC Grant, ‘Creative 
Interruptions: grassroots creativity, state structures and disconnection 
as a space for 'radical openness' 
(gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/N004094/1 
<http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH/N004094/1>) and will provide a 
unique opportunity to work on a large collaborative project 
exploring//how disenfranchised communities have used cultural production 
to challenge inequality and oppression. This is a fully-funded, 3-year 
AHRC scholarship to focus on a strand of the project, analysing literary 
and cultural representations of partition, with a special focus on the 
Punjab.

*Number of Scholarships – *1

*Value* – Home/EU fees and a full stipend (at the standard RCUK rate) 
for 3 years, plus an additional research allowance for research travel 
to be agreed with the supervisor.

*Opens* – Immediately

*Helps with* – See above

*Duration* – 3 years full-time from 1 Oct 2016

*/Eligibility/*

*Is this for you?*

To apply for a full award, you must meet the eligibility criteria:

   * A good undergraduate degree (1st Class or 2:1 equivalent) in
     Literature or a closely-related subject
   * An MA in Literature or a closely-related subject
   * Meet the AHRC’s residency criteria (see

www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsTrainingGrants.pdf

<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsTrainingGrants.pdf> 
page
     13), which include settled status in the UK in addition to being an
     ‘ordinary resident’ in the UK for three years prior to appointment
   * IELTS minimum overall band score of 7.5 (no individual  test score
     below 6.5)
   * Knowledge of Punjabi, Hindi or Urdu is desirable

*Further Information*

This doctoral thesis offers an opportunity to bring historicised 
literary analysis into contact with a range of communities who live with 
the impact of partition. The thesis will begin with a negotiation of 
literary texts connected to Punjab and partition, but through contact 
with the larger project, there will be opportunities to engage with 
contexts of cultural partition in Northern Ireland and Palestine. The 
student will also be invited to conduct oral histories to collect 
‘unofficial’ stories and narratives of partition to analyse alongside 
literary accounts. In the final phase of the project, there will be 
opportunities to co-design impact led research workshops with Churnjeet 
Mahn and the broader team.

The student’s contribution to the project will be four-fold:

  1. Contributing an interdisciplinary humanities-led perspective to
     issues of community division and dissent resulting from Partition in
     Northern Ireland, Palestine and India
  2. Delivering part of the overall project by co-designing and leading
     workshops in Glasgow around the theme of Punjabi Partition
  3. The training and developing of a doctoral scholar, who will be
     equipped with a range of interdisciplinary skills from the project,
     and who, through their own career development, will become one of
     the important legacies from the project

The student will be primarily supervised at the University of 
Strathclyde by Dr Churnjeet Mahn (School of Humanities and Social 
Sciences) with collaboration/support from Dr Sarita Malik (Brunel).

*How to apply*

Upload the following documents to Pegasus:

ben.mis.strath.ac.uk/pguserprofile/control/enterDetailsPage 
<https://ben.mis.strath.ac.uk/pguserprofile/control/enterDetailsPage>

   * A 500-word research proposal
   * **Two academic references** (these can be emailed direct to
     (hass-scholarships /at/ strath.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(hass-scholarships /at/ strath.ac.uk)>)
   * A curriculum vitae
   * Degree transcripts and certificates
   * An English language qualification (if required)

*Contact us*

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Churnjeet Mahn 
((churnjeet.mahn /at/ strath.ac.uk) <mailto:(churnjeet.mahn /at/ strath.ac.uk)>)

Best wishes,

Sarita

*Sarita Malik*

Director of Research, Department of Social Sciences, Media & Communications

*Email: (Sarita.Malik /at/ brunel.ac.uk)
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