[Commlist] Media Discourse Centre (MDC) - AHRC M4C Doctoral Scheme Applications

*PhD funding for UK/International Applicants - follow link*

https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/apply/ 
<https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/apply/>

*Media Discourse Centre, De Montfort University, UK- follow 
link*https://www.dmu.ac.uk/mediadiscourse 
<https://www.dmu.ac.uk/mediadiscourse>

/Expressions of Interest below.///

All Details below, /essential procedures and dates///as follows:

_Step 1_: expression of interest, with Title, Outline of Project and CV 
to MDC at - (sprice /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(sprice /at/ dmu.ac.uk)> 
__/*and*/(giuliana.tiripelli /at/ dmu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(giuliana.tiripelli /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>__deadline *5^thNovember 2021*. 
Informal advice can be sought from these contacts.

_Step 2_: once project is agreed, submit PhD application to De Montfort 
University’s Doctoral College - 
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities-dtp/m4c.aspx 
<https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities-dtp/m4c.aspx>__deadline 
*1st December 2021*. This has to be done to enable entry to M4C.

**

_Step 3_: the final deadline for Midlands Four Cities applications, is 
noon on *12**^th**January 2022*.

*M4C Background*

The AHRC-funded M4C scheme ‘brings together eight leading universities 
across the Midlands to support the ... next generation of arts and 
humanities doctoral researchers’.

[Universities: Birmingham, Birmingham City, Coventry, De Montfort, 
Leicester, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, and Warwick].

This year, for 2021/22 entry, M4C is awarding up to *89 PhD***places for 
UK and International applicants plus *21 *Collaborative Doctoral Awards 
(CDA).

*MDC Research*


The Media Discourse Centre (*MDC*) at De Montfort is calling for 
*expressions of interest*. _Include_: name, contact email, title of 
proposal, paragraph on the project, paragraph on theoretical and 
methodological stance, current CV.

MDC is ‘renowned for its strong focus on the global dimension of public 
events, culture and politics’, and its devotion to ‘the_critical 
analysis_of the contemporary social order’.

MDC has a dozen current PhDs and offers dedicated research space within 
the (socially distanced!) Centre: research focusses on a number key 
areas, evident in our recent publications (scroll down). These include, 
but are by no means limited to, the following:

Peace Journalism

Investigative Journalism and Broadcast Journalism

Citizen communication in South America

Public Discourse and the Pandemic

Protest, Media and Culture 
(https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/RLIPMC/Protest,-Media-and-Culture 
<https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/RLIPMC/Protest,-Media-and-Culture>)

Protest Movements in Southern Europe

Protest during the Pandemic (book forthcoming, 2022)

Transgressive Culture 
(https://t.gylphi.co.uk/series/TransgressiveCulture 
<https://t.gylphi.co.uk/series/TransgressiveCulture>)

The Mediation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (book forthcoming, 
2022)

Race, Decolonisation and the Postcolonial

Super Club Dance Cultures in the UK

Surveillance, Persuasion, Mediation and the State

Far-right Resurgence in European Politics

Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis/Multimodal Analysis

Intersectionality and Social Theory

For further context, here are some recent publications from our FT 
Staff/Research Associates:

*//*

Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher (2022) */Power, Media and the Covid-19 
Pandemic: framing public /*discourse 
https://www.routledge.com/Power-Media-and-the-Covid-19-Pandemic-Framing-Public-Discourse/Price-Harbisher/p/book/9780367706326 
<https://www.routledge.com/Power-Media-and-the-Covid-19-Pandemic-Framing-Public-Discourse/Price-Harbisher/p/book/9780367706326>

Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu (2021) */BBC Asian Network: the cultural 
production of 
diversity/**//*https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030657635 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030657635>
Max Hanska (2021) */Communication against Domination: ideas of justice 
from the printing press to algorithmic 
media/**//*https://www.routledge.com/Communication-Against-Domination-Ideas-of-Justice-from-the- 
Printing-Press/Hanska/p/book/9780367236144 
<https://www.routledge.com/Communication-Against-Domination-Ideas-of-Justice-from-the-%20Printing-Press/Hanska/p/book/9780367236144>
Fernanda Amaral (2021) */Voices from the Favelas: media activism and 
counter-narratives/**//*https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147436/Voices-from-the-Favelas-Media-Activism-and- 
Counter-Narratives-from-Below

Jason Lee (2018) */Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and 
Media/**//*https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089649362/nazism-and-neo-nazism-in-film-and-media 
<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089649362/nazism-and-neo-nazism-in-film-and-media>

Giuliana Tiripelli (2016) */Media and Peace in the Middle East: the role 
of journalism in 
Israel/Palestine/**//*https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137504005 
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137504005>

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