[Commlist] AHRC Midland4Cities PhD Studentships in Media & Culture

*AHRC Midlands4Cities funding for UK/international students*

The AHRC-funded *Midlands4Cities 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/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.

The *Media & Culture Research Centre *(https://www.dmu.ac.uk/mcrc 
<https://www.dmu.ac.uk/mcrc>)** at *De Montfort University *invites 
applications from students who are interested in developing research in 
any of the following areas:

*Representation*

Migrant communities, Race, youth engagement, media representation of 
women, national and cultural belonging, pop culture, subcultures, gender 
identities & intersectionality, black masculinity.

*Media technical change & culture***

Disinformation, Big Data, social disadvantage through human centred 
design, database culture, TV Studies and streaming cultures.

*Cultural citizenship***

Multiculturalism and decolonization, women in academia, mental health, 
sports rights and the media, Festival studies.

*Cultural & Media policy*

Institutional analysis, sport & the media, journalism and political 
actors in India.

*Cultural Value*

Online communication and persuasion, intersections between the 
aesthetics of media forms and ideology.

*Sustainability*

Consumerism and sustainable development, cultures of waste.

The MCRC undertakes this research utilising a wide range of methods 
including textual analysis, semiotic analysis, statistical analysis, 
industry/policy analysis, ethnography, games-based modelling as well as 
theory led approaches.

Applicants for M4C funding 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 
*2 December 2020*).

Following internal approval, the online deadline for M4C funding 
applications (including two academic references) is *13 January 2021 
(noon)*.

For informal enquiries and advice on developing proposals for the DDPS, 
please contact: Dr. Simon Mills ((smills /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(smills /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>).

For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and 
CDA projects, and for dates of our November application writing 
workshops, please visit 
<https://webmail.dmu.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=RhEDWXcGVqEWzdCJ-YFwkR6xws6kCEfXD3hlws9jMhcQH7DDhS7WCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.midlands3cities.ac.uk%2ffunding%2ffunding.aspx>https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk 
<https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/> or contact 
mailto:(enquiries /at/ midlands4cities.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(enquiries /at/ midlands4cities.ac.uk)>

*Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership****| AHRC Funding for 
UK/EU Students*

*Birmingham Coventry Leicester Nottingham****| 
*www.midlands4cities.ac.uk <https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/>

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