[Commlist] Funded PHD Studentships in Sport, Media & Gender

The Media group in the Faculty of Arts Design and Social Sciences is 
currently inviting applications for fully-funded doctoral studentships 
in the field of *Sport, Media and Gender* to join our PhD programme at 
Northumbria University through the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium.

For details and to apply (deadline: 9th January 2019), please visit the 
Northumbria University website 
<https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/studentships/nbc-dtp/>.


*Project Title: *New approaches to the study of representations of 
sportswomen and/or femininity in British sports media

*Project Rationale and Description:*
The development of rigorous, theoretically informed explanations of the 
meanings, effects and practices of the sports media’s construction of 
femininity has a long history dating back to the 1970s. However, there 
are contemporary challenges to our understanding of the role and 
influence of sports media in the representation of gendered identity, 
not least due to the recent scale and pace of technological change in 
the media such as, for example, the advent of social media as well as 
the emergence of new forms of femininity such as the “pretty and 
powerful” third wave female athlete. Both these phenomena have 
significantly altered the ways in which sports media representations of 
femininity are produced, disseminated and interpreted.
The aim of this project is to investigate the contemporary 
socio-cultural construction of female identity in the sports sector 
through the representations of female athletes and/or female 
non-athletes in the coverage of men’s sport. It can draw on 
inter-disciplinary conceptual approaches and theoretical tools 
(including, but not limited to, sociology, cultural studies, human 
geography and politics), and can encompass discussion of British 
print/broadcast/online sports media, so long as it has been created 
within the last decade (approximately).
The nature of this project is that it is open to a wide variety of 
approaches. Possible topics could include, but are certainly not limited 
to, the following:

  * The gendered context of sports media industries
  * Sports media representation of female non-athletes
  * Sports media, gender and race
  * The impact of social media on female athletes’ self-representation
  * The impact of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements in sports media
  * Inclusive and exclusive framing of trans athletes
  * Representations of Muslim sportswomen and femininity
  * Gender-marking within sports marketing
  *

This PhD studentship is based within the Department of Social Sciences 
at Northumbria University. Potential applicants are advised to identify 
a potential supervisor to work with in formulating their application, 
and to ensure that the ‘fit’ between the proposed project and the 
research context and environment at Northumbria University is clearly 
articulated.


Enquiries can be made to Roger Domeneghetti 
((roger.domeneghetti /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(roger.domeneghetti /at/ northumbria.ac.uk)>).
The deadline for applications for October 2019 entry is *9 January 2019 
(5pm) *but it is important to make contact as soon as possible.
For further details, please visit:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/studentships/nbc-dtp/


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