[ecrea] Doctoral studentship - photography, art and motility

PHOTOGRAPHY, ART AND MOTILITY

*Eligibility: UK/EU*

*Award Details: Bursary plus tuition fees*

*Duration: Full Time - 3 years to 3 years 6 months Fixed Term*

*Application deadline: June 19th (4pm) (Starting September 2017)*

*Informal enquiries are essential before application; contact *Professor 
Damian Sutton <mailto:(ac2719 /at/ coventry.ac.uk)> *to discuss this opportunity.*

As an ambitious and innovative University, we’re investing an initial 
£100m into our new research strategy, ‘Excellence with Impact 
<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-research-at-coventry/>’. 
Through original approaches from world-leading experts, we’re aiming for 
our research to make a tangible difference to the way we live. As a 
research student you are an integral part of Coventry’s lively and 
diverse research community and contribute to our reputation for 
excellence. With our exceptional facilities and superb support 
mechanisms 
<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/research-studentships/research-studentships-the-benefits/?id=98267> 
you are afforded every opportunity for academic success.

THE PROJECT

This PhD will explore the conceptual framework of /motility/, and how 
this can be used in the study of fine art photography practice, theory 
and culture. Motility is a concept drawn from mobilities research in 
human geography and sociology that attempts to express the hierarchical 
nature of movement as ordered through gender, race, class and wealth 
(Kaufmann, Bergman and Joye 2004; Kaufmann 2011; Sheller 2014). 
Practices of photography that rely on a high degree of motility include 
humanist portraiture or street photography in contemporary art, 
landscape and environmental photography, as well as the professional and 
commercial practices from which they sometimes derive, such as 
photojournalism, editorial photography and travel photography. All of 
these can trace a twin ancestry in both photography’s mobile history in 
early tourism and in the romanticized concept of the artist’s vision 
that grew from photography’s adoption into the art institution.

We invite applications that will take this concept to the historical, 
cultural or practice-led study of photography as an art form, in order 
to understand its impact on contemporary practices. Suggested subject 
areas and themes include (but are not limited to):

  * Differential mobility in fine art photography practice in terms of
    gender, race and/or disability
  * Mobility and photography in an international, global context
  * Photography and the representation of mobility
  * Photography and philosophies of /nomadism/
  * The road trip and its significance in photography
  * Fine art photography as a critique of travel and tourism
  * Photography and placehacking, urban exploration and thanatourism.

ABOUT THE CENTRES/DEPARTMENTS

*Visual Arts Research*, led by Professor Juliet Simpson (Professor of 
Art History), is one of the largest areas of academic research growth in 
the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, with a range of outstanding 
international strengths and partnerships. It encompasses 
internationally-recognized historians and theorists of art and design, 
fine art and visual art practitioners; architectural designers; 
historians of culture and heritage; curatorial experts and 
interdisciplinary research in contemporary media, graphic art, fashion, 
film practices; word-image studies and a vibrant PhD cohort. Particular 
research strengths include: modern and contemporary visual art practices 
and theories of design; European histories of art and cultural identity, 
1850 to the present; transnationalism in modern and contemporary visual 
cultures; contemporary fine art education; sculpture and visual cultures 
of the body; image-text studies; drawing; art and art languages; 
critical curation, histories and practices; cultural heritage and 
experimental film and digital cultures. Visual Arts Research is a 
pivotal area for new interdisciplinary research and research-led 
teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. It is a major focus of 
the University’s REF strengths in Art and Design: History, Theory and 
Practice.  There are 3 possible themes:

Art, Transnationalism and Cultural Memory
Body Object and Space
Health and Arts Wellbeing

*VAR* has outstanding international research and exhibitions networks 
developed with world-leading university, museum and arts-sector 
partners. We have established and new collaborations, including with: 
The National Gallery, London; the Royal College of Art; the Universities 
of York, Warwick, Loughborough and Amsterdam; Compton Verney Museum; The 
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry; the National Finnish Gallery 
of Art/Ateneum Art Gallery, Helsinki; Ghent University and the Musées 
Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Our research attracts international 
acclaim via funded awards, most recently, from the RCUK, the AHRC and 
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. In addition, Visual 
Arts showcases cutting-edge research through its vibrant progamme of 
international conferences, symposia, exhibitions (Faculty-based and 
external) and dedicated research seminar series on ‘Visions of Art’. 
Featuring visiting academics and Professors, the seminar provides a 
vehicle for research at the forefront of the three areas of VAR research 
expertise. It complements our research programme of symposia, 
exhibitions, curatorial interventions and PhD internships with the 
internationally-renowned art collections at Compton Verney Museum: VAR’s 
established museum partner.

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS

*Successful applicants will have:*

  * a taught Masters degree in a relevant discipline, involving a
    dissertation of standard length written in English in the relevant
    subject area with a minimum of a merit profile: 60% overall module
    average and a minimum of a 60% dissertation mark

  * the potential to engage in innovative research and to complete the
    PhD within a three-year period of study
  * a minimum of English language proficiency (IELTS overall minimum
    score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component)

*Additionally:*

  * knowledge and/or experience in the subject.

ELIGIBILITY & APPLICATION PROCEDURE

*Application Procedure:*

Application information can be found in our how to apply section. Before 
completing the application please contact Professor Damian Sutton 
<mailto:(ac2719 /at/ coventry.ac.uk)> for an initial informal discussion about 
the opportunity.

*Eligibility:*

All UK/EU/International students are eligible to apply that meet the 
academic requirements, the eligibility criteria can be found making an 
application page 
<http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/making-an-application/>.

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