[ecrea] AHRC-funded PhD studentship available: Cross-Community Oral History, Post-Conflict Geography and Conflict Resolution at West Belfast Interfaces.

*AHRC-funded PhD studentship available: Cross-Community Oral History, 
Post-Conflict Geography and Conflict Resolution at West Belfast Interfaces*

Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at the University of 
Brighton: “Cross-Community Oral History, Post-Conflict Geography and 
Conflict Resolution at West Belfast Interfaces”. This Collaborative 
Doctoral Award is offered under the TECHNE Doctoral Training Partnership 
Awards scheme. The partner institutions are the University of Brighton 
and Falls Community Council in West Belfast. This full-time studentship 
is funded for three years at standard AHRC rates. The successful 
applicant will be jointly based at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and 
Histories at the University andthe Dúchas Oral History Archive at FCC. 
Candidates must be available to begin on 7th January 2019.

This studentship will investigate, evaluate and contribute to further 
development of the Dúchas Oral History Archive as a tool for conflict 
resolution and reconciliation in West Belfast. The Archive contains 
several collections of oral history interviews from residents at the 
interfaces between the unionist Shankill and nationalist Divis, Clonard 
and Springfield areas of the city. Drawing on, and contributing to, 
current academic scholarship on life history and memory of conflict, 
post-conflict geography, and conflict resolution, the project will 
critically explore the strategies and practices of history-making and 
memory-work devised by Dúchas to build relationships across divisions 
and to acknowledge and reckon with a conflicted history. It will examine 
the Archive’s conception of the relationship between oral history and 
conflict resolution, and its role in the societal and policy 
conversation about the significance of storytelling work in ‘dealing 
with the past’. Through detailed engagement with the narratives 
collected in the Archive, it will pioneer their use in making an 
interpretative history of experiences and memories of ‘place’ on both 
sides of the interfaces before, during and after the Northern Irish 
Troubles.

For full details of the studentship, eligibility criteria, and how to 
apply, go to: 
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/2018-cross-community-oral-history.aspx

*Deadline**: *17.00 Wednesday 31 October 2018.


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