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

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.

**

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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