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[Commlist] AHRC M4C PhD funding for projects in Cinema and Television History at De Montfort University, Leicester

Tue Oct 31 18:20:49 GMT 2023




De Montfort University's Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI) is pleased to announce this year's AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK and international applicants.

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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.


Through our Open Doctoral and Collaborative Doctoral Awards Midlands4Cities will fund and support outstanding research for 86 doctoral researchers across the breadth of Arts and Humanities starting in October 2024.


There are 70 PhD studentships available through an open competition and M4C is also awarding 16 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) which provide diverse and unique project opportunities with national, regional, and local partner organisations.UK, EU, and International applicants are eligible for both routes for 2024 entry.  Further details on the funding provided are available on the M4C website: http://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk <http://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/>.


*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. CATHI is home to the 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 Theatre and Arts Centre Archives, and the collections of screenwriter Andrew Davies,LGBTQartist Andrew Logan and broadcaster/journalist Anita Anand. CATHI invites 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 and silent cinema music
• Cult cinema
• Bollywood and independent Indian cinema
• Transmedia adaptations
• History and media, heritage film, 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>


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 30*^*th* * November 2023*). Following internal approval, the online deadline for M4C funding applications is *10*^*th* * January 2024* (noon GMT). For informal enquiries and advice on developing proposals for CATHI please contact our Institute Head of Research Students, Laraine Porter ((lporter /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(lporter /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>) or Professor Justin Smith ((Justin.Smith /at/ dmu.ac.uk)) <mailto:(Justin.Smith /at/ dmu.ac.uk))>, Professor Claire Monk ((cmonk /at/ dmu.ac.uk)) <mailto:(cmonk /at/ dmu.ac.uk))> .


An online application writing workshop will be held in conjunction with the University of Leicester at 2-5 pm on *Saturday 4^th November**.* Book a place online here:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofleicester3/1014649 <https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofleicester3/1014649>


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