[ecrea] Newcastle University - ESRC Studentships in Media and Society

Newcastle University, Media, Culture, Heritage subject area welcomes 
expressions of interest for students wishing to apply for a scholarship 
as part of the ESRC funded NINE (Northern Ireland North East) Doctoral 
Training Partnership. We welcome interest in 5 broad thematic areas: 
Gender, Media and Society; Journalism, Theory and Practice; Digital 
Media and Society; Media and Critical Discourse Analysis; Media and 
Heritage (for more specific areas of interest see list below)


Three different routes are available and we welcome enquiries for all 
three. These are:

  * 1+3 awards to complete a research training masters degree followed
    by a PhD.
  * +3 awards for students who have already completed an ESRC-recognised
    Masters degree that included social science research training of 60
    credits or more.
  * +3.5 awards for students who have completed a Masters degree that
    did not include social science research training. Students will
    undertake the PG Certificate in Research Training alongside the PhD.

NINE DTP is an exciting new collaboration between seven universities 
producing world-class research across the full range of social science 
disciplines. NINE DTP builds upon the previous North East Doctoral 
Training Centre. NINE provides an opportunity for you to be part of a 
community of academic excellence which is shaping the global future of 
social sciences while engaging with the challenges in our local 
communities. 
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/allstudents/esr17.html

*_Eligibility Criteria_*


NINE DTP is seeking to recruit candidates with an outstanding academic 
background and research potential.

Candidates applying for a standard +3 doctoral award must also hold or 
be completing an ESRC-recognised Masters degree.

Doctoral candidates who hold or are completing a Masters degree in a 
relevant discipline, but which does not include the required research 
methods training, can apply for a +3.5 award.

Applicants must:

  * have a *1st class or 2:1 honours *degree in the social sciences, or
    have relevant comparable experience.
  * be a UK/EU resident
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*Current doctoral students are not eligible.*

Further details about the ESRC’s eligibility requirements can be found 
in RCUK’s *Training Grant Guide* <http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/grantstcs/>.

**

*How to apply*

Applicants must apply through the *University’s online postgraduate 
application system* <http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/>quoting 
*ESR17 *under ‘Studentship/Partnership Reference’ and ‘Who is your 
sponsor/funding body?’

Your application must include:

  * a research proposal of no more than 2000 words
  * a current CV
  * two references
  * certified transcripts of previous qualifications (translated into
    English where necessary) are required.
The research proposal for application to the DTP grant competition 
*should be prepared in consultation with an identified research 
supervisor, who should be approached* *well in advance of the final 
deadline, and be submitted on the correct forms*.  Please contact the 
relevant School/Department, potential supervisor, or in the first 
instance email the Media and Society subject contact Dr Joss Hands 
((joss.hands /at/ ncl.ac.uk)) <mailto:(joss.hands /at/ ncl.ac.uk))>

The final deadline for submitting a *postgraduate application* and 
supporting documentation is *Monday 16 January 2017, 5:00pm*.

_Potential themes and projects for supervision at Newcastle University 
in the Media and Society strand of the NINE DTP _

·‘Hyper-local' journalism(s)

·Changing models of journalism work and practice

·Communication amongst financial and/or political elites

·Comparative media studies, foreign policy, conflict and human rights

·Critical theory of the digital, autonomist theories of mediation

·Data visualisation in health communications

·Digital activism, modes of online resistance and organisation

·Digital communications, collective consciousness and extended mind

·Digital Interfaces

·Digital representation and self-representation

·Discourse and minority representations

·Discourse and nationalism/national Identity

·Discourse, power and ideology in journalism and media communications

·Discourses of crisis and austerity

·Gender, media and society

·Histories of women in journalism: journalistic practices, experiences 
and status of women in the past

·Identity and sport

·Journalism, communities, place and space

·Masculinities, masculinities and media, masculinities and place

·Media and contested cultural knowledge/difficult heritage/collective memory

·Media, home and transformations in domestic spaces: how digital media 
technologies and devices relate to households, families, and children.

·New Materialism, continental philosophy, speculative realism, object 
oriented approaches to media

·New media, democracy and public sphere theory

·Political uses and mediations of the past

·Sexualities, intimacies and erotics

·Social issues in sport (particularly 
extreme/alternative/action/lifestyle sports)

·Social media and personal relationships

·Social Media Critical Discourse Studies

·Technology and affect

·The political economy of the regional and local press in Britain

·The public construction of economic knowledge, financialisation and finance

·Theorising technology and gaming

·Young Men, laddism, digital media, and engaging men in violence against 
women prevention programmes



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