[Commlist] AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK/International applicants

*AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK/International applicants*****

The AHRC-fundedMidlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership 
<https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/>(M4C) brings together eight leading 
universities across the Midlands to support the professional and 
personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities 
doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of 
Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry 
University, University of Leicester, De Montfort University, Nottingham 
Trent University and The University of Nottingham.

M4C is awarding up to 89 doctoral studentships for UK and International 
applicants for 2021 entry through an open competition and 21 
Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a 
range of partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage 
sector.


*De Montfort University's Cinema and Television History 
Institute*(CATHI) is a centre of excellence in archival screen heritage. 
It specialises in evidence-based and oral history methods to inform 
ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and RCUK-funded international 
collaborations.CATHIis home to the cross-faculty Centre for Adaptations 
and houses a number of unique collections including: the Hammer Script 
Archive, the Sir Norman Wisdom Collection, the Cinema Museum's Indian 
Cinemas Archive, the Palace Pictures and Scala Productions Archive, the 
Peter Whitehead Archive, the Leicester Film Society and Phoenix Arts 
Centre Archives, and the collections of screenwriter Andrew Davies, 
artist/photographer Andrew Logan and broadcaster/journalist Anita Anand. 
We host the annual UK Asian Film Festival, the BFI British Silent Film 
Festival and the post-graduate conferenceCATHICon, and promote 
practice-based research via the DocHub@DMU.CATHIinvites applications 
from well-qualified students whose research interests connect with our 
expertise in:

*• Women’s film and television history*
*• British Cinema and Film Culture*
*• Italian Cinema*
*• Transnational Cinema*
*• Silent Cinema*
*• Cult Cinema*
*• Bollywood and Independent Indian Cinema*
*• Transmedia Adaptations*
*• Heritage Cinema Culture and Period Television Drama*
*• Film Ephemera and Material Culture*
*• Audiences, Reception Studies and Memories of Cinemagoing*
*• Film Fandom, Fanworks and Social Media*
*• Film exhibition and Cinema History*
*• Film Festivals*
*• Documentary theory and practice*
*• Screen performance and star studies*
*• 1960s and the counterculture*


See our supervisors' interests 
here:https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/cathi/members.aspx <https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/cathi/members.aspx>

**

*Additionally, for 2021, we invite applications for the following 
dedicated archival projects:*


'Dressing to Skill: Women in British Television Costume Departments' (in 
partnership with the British Entertainment History Project 
https://historyproject.org.uk/ <https://historyproject.org.uk/> ) - 
supervisor: Dr. Vicky Ball (vicky.ball /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(vicky.ball /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>

'Leicester's Phoenix: regional theatre, cinema, arts, and education from 
1960 to the present day' - supervisor: Laraine Porter (lporter /at/ dmu.ac.uk)

'Marketing Bollywood and regional Indian cinemas in the UK: promotional 
materials from the Cinema Museum's Indian Cinemas Collection' – 
supervisor: Dr. Monia (Acciarimonia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(monia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>


'Palace Revolution: the ups and downs of British Independent Cinema in 
the 1980s and 90s' (using the Palace Pictures/Scala Productions archive) 
- supervisor: Prof. Steve Chibnall (schib /at/ dmu.ac.uk)


For enquiries about these specific projects please contact the named 
supervisors.


Applicants forM4Cfunding must in the first instance apply for a PhD 
place at DMU via DMU’s Doctoral 
College:https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities-dtp/m4c.aspx 
<https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities-dtp/m4c.aspx>(deadline*1 
December**2020)*. Following internal approval, the online deadline 
forM4Cfunding applications is*13 January 2021 (noon)*. For informal 
enquiries and advice on developing proposals for CATHI please contact: 
Professor Justin Smith ((Justin.Smith /at/ dmu.ac.uk)).


For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and 
CDA projects, and for dates ofM4C’s November application writing 
workshops, please visit:https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/ 
<https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/>or 
(contactenquiries /at/ midlands4cities.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(enquiries /at/ midlands4cities.ac.uk)>

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