[ecrea] PhD positions in Film Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

  The University of Gothenburg is now advertising open applications for
  PhD applications in Film Studies. We have a variety of specialisms in
  the department such as, Scandinavian film, feminist and intersectional
  approaches to film, film-philosophy, and digital media. Any enquiries,
  in the first instance, should be directed to our head of department
  Associate Professor, Mats Björkin Mats.Bjö(rkin /at/ gu.se)
  <http://Mats.Bjö;(rkin /at/ gu.se)> or Senior Lecturer in Film and Feminism,
  Anna Backman Rogers (anna.backman.rogers /at/ gu.se)
  <mailto:(anna.backman.rogers /at/ gu.se)>

More specific details are outlined below this message.

Very best wishes
Anna Backman Rogers.


  Admission to Doctoral Programmes (Third Cycle) 2017

The Department of Cultural Sciences will announce 6 funded positions as 
postgraduate student in 2017.

*Applications may be submitted starting on 24 January, 2017.
Applications must be submitted no later than 21 February, 2017.*

For more detailed information about the application process see 
”Instructions for Applicants” below.

After preparation at the Department, admission decisions are made by the 
Head of Department by 1 June. Before this decision is made, a 
preliminary decision proposal will be sent to all applicants. Applicants 
admitted will be notified as soon as possible after the decision has 
been made by the Head of Department.

The will announce one postgraduate position in each of the Department’s 
six programmes for third-cycle studies:

• Art History and Visual Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Ethnology
• Film Studies
• Gender Studies
• Musicology

The criterion for selection among applicants is the ability to benefit 
from the study programme. This criterion also includes applicants’ 
ability to contribute to and benefit from the study environment at the 
Department. It is therefore important that you carefully study the 
websites describing the current research areas of the Department and the 
research profiles of individual potential supervisors.


    Instructions for Applicants

Only students who have funding for the equivalent of four years’ 
full-time study will be admitted into a doctoral programme; funding is 
normally obtained through a Department studentship. Department 
studentships in various subjects are normally announced once a year.

In order to be admitted as a doctoral student, you must have completed 
an undergraduate degree (First cycle) and at least one year of study at 
the Masters level (Second cycle). Normally the requirements for being 
admitted to a doctoral programme in a given subject include three to 
four terms of studies in that subject in the First and Second cycle. For 
detailed information on the entry requirements in each of the doctoral 
programmes offered at the Department see the General Syllabi of these 
programmes.
Please note that for all of the Department’s doctoral programmes, the 
specific entry requirements include language skills in Swedish as well 
as English (see the appropriate General Syllabus, section 2.2).

The Department of Cultural Sciences will announce 6 funded positions as 
postgraduate student in 2017. Applications may be submitted starting on 
Tuesday 24 January, 2017, and a complete application must be submitted 
no later than Tuesday 21 February, 2017. The application is to be made 
by means of the electronic form in The University of Gothenburg’s 
net-based Job Application Portal 
<http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/?languageId=100001&disableRedirect=true&returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gu.se%2Fomuniversitetet%2Faktuellt%2Fledigaanstallningar%2F>. 
Once completed the form serves as the basis of your application. The 
form contains a number of tabs. Information or attachments must be 
submitted via the following tabs: 2 Personal Details, 3 Cover Letter, 5 
Education, 6 Languages, 9 Attachments. It is not necessary to submit any 
information covered by the other tabs in the system.

The application is to be supplemented with various attachments for 
inspection by the referees appointed to assess your postgraduate 
application and those of others. These attachments correspond to the 
four headings presented in the instructions below. The filenames of the 
attachments should contain your last name along with a specification 
(the structure of filenames is exemplified below under each heading). 
Attachments A to C are to be uploaded via tab 9 Attachments in the Job 
Application Portal, while the text for D is to be submitted via tab 3 
Cover Letter.

For technical support concerning the Job Application Portal, please 
contact (rekrytering /at/ gu.se) <mailto:(rekrytering /at/ gu.se)>. Questions related 
to the content of your application can be directed to the Department’s 
Associate Head of Department for Doctoral Studies. 
<mailto:(alf.bjornberg /at/ gu.se)>

*A Educational certificate *

(name of file: ”Last Name education”)

You must enclose an attested educational certificate that lists the 
courses you have completed. The certificate must demonstrate that you 
meet the general entry requirements for postgraduate study as well as 
the specific entry requirements specified in the General Syllabus for 
the postgraduate subject to which you are applying. If you do not meet 
the requirements specified in the primary formulations of the Syllabus 
under the heading ”Behörighetskrav och förkunskapskrav” (”Entry 
requirements”), then you must submit a separate document (”Last Name 
entry requirements”) where you clearly state on what grounds your 
qualifications can be said to correspond to the primary formulations.

*B Texts*

(name of file: ”Last Name text 1”, ”Last Name text 2” etc.)

Submit your second-cycle degree projects and any relevant publications. 
You may submit up to five texts; any additional texts can be listed in a 
separate document.

*C Project description
*
(name of file: ”Last Name project”)

You must attach a description of your intended thesis project. Your 
project description must be developed independently, not in co-operation 
with potential supervisors or equivalent parties. Before you write it 
you should study any detailed instructions listed in the General 
Syllabus for your postgraduate subject. The description may be no more 
than 24,000 characters (incl. blank spaces), which corresponds to around 
eight pages of text of normal density, and may be written in Swedish or 
English.
Your thesis plan should contain a clear research problem in connection 
with your area of investigation, and you must motivate why this 
particular problematic is worthy of closer investigation. The 
introduction of the research problem should lead to a description of the 
precise purpose of the investigation, which in turn may subsume examples 
of the questions you will seek to answer or the hypotheses you wish to test.

The thesis plan should contain a brief survey of the research field, to 
clarify what has previously been done in this area and how your own 
investigation relates to existing scholarship: what you wish to 
incorporate or develop further, but also what, if anything, you feel has 
so far been dealt with in an incomplete or unsatisfactory manner.
It 
should contain a section on method where you discuss and explain the 
tools and analytical techniques you wish to bring to bear on your 
research problem. Here you should also clarify the theoretical framework 
that serves as a foundation for your investigation, and also define the 
materials that you mainly intend to work with. The plan may also contain 
a preliminary outline of your dissertation, a list of envisaged research 
stages, as well as reflections on a general timeframe for the research 
process.

The plan should preferably be written in such a way that the points 
listed above are treated as links in a structurally and logically 
coherent argument where the initial formulation of your research problem 
serves as a foundation for everything that follows.

*D Self-reflection
*
(submitted under the tab ”3 Cover Letter”)

You must enclose a brief essay where you reflect on your motives for 
applying to the doctoral programme and on the line of development that 
you feel can be traced in your degree projects. If it is evident from 
the educational certificates that a very long time has elapsed before 
the completion of said degree projects, you may wish to comment on this 
fact. This text may be no more than 3,000 characters (incl. blank 
spaces), which corresponds to around one page of text of normal density, 
and may be written in Swedish or English.
* * *

If for some reason you are unable to submit one or more attachments in 
electronic format, you must report this well ahead of time to 
(forskarutb /at/ kultvet.gu.se) <mailto:(forskarutb /at/ kultvet.gu.se)> for further 
instructions. Applicants who have already been accepted into a 
postgraduate programme at the Department of Cultural Sciences and are 
now seeking a funded position are requested to contact the Department’s 
Associate Head of Department for Doctoral Studies 
<http://(alf.bjornberg /at/ gu.se)/> for information about what information 
needs to be submitted.

Applicants must be aware that the Department’s principle of announcing 
full postgraduate positions rather than stipends carries with it the 
expectation that the postgraduate as employee will be physically present 
at the workplace, interacting actively with the research environment in 
order to benefit from the education provided there.

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