[ecrea] PhD Scholarships, University of Glamorgan

*Centenary Doctoral Scholarships at University of Glamorgan*

In 2013 Glamorgan University will celebrate 100 years and to mark this 
celebration the university is making available 20 Centenary Doctoral 
Scholarships.  These are intended to provide financial support to 20 
home/EU students to undertake a PhD at the University of Glamorgan.  For 
more information see: http://office.research.glam.ac.uk/centenary/.

The scholarships cover a wide range of subjects including those related 
to media, culture and creative industries 
(http://office.research.glam.ac.uk/culcre/),including one on /The Future 
of Arts Programming in a Multiplatform Digital Market /and another on 
/How Local Celebrity is Created and Managed in UK Nations and Regions./

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Based in the School for Creative and Cultural Industries, and as part of 
the faculty’s continuing interest in cultures of creative production and 
celebrity, the supervisory teams wish to recruit a suitably qualified 
PhD candidate. The specific nature of the projects can be defined 
further by the recipient’s own interests, however the ideal candidate 
will be familiar with a range of qualitative data collection methods 
including interviewing and textual analysis.

*/The Future of Arts Programming in a Multiplatform Digital Market – Dr. 
Caitriona Noonan/*

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Arts programming has traditionally been viewed as an important part of 
broadcasting’s social responsibility. However, despite some successful 
attempts to broaden the appeal of this genre it was recently announced 
that arts programming was one of the hardest hit in relation to cuts on 
production, with spending down 15% amongst the UK’s terrestrial 
channels. The focus of this project will be on the ways in which the 
concept of public service broadcasting, as articulated through arts 
programming, is negotiated within the practices of media professionals; 
in particular how their norms, values and routines condition the 
production of this programming and how these are evolving in an era of 
niche channelling and multiplatform provision. It will also locate these 
shifts within wider industry tensions and trends (e.g. specialist versus 
generalist production, international co-productions, overseas sales, use 
of celebrities and popular formats, etc).

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*/How Local Celebrity is Created and Managed in UK Nations and Regions – 
Dr. Rebecca Williams/*

Against the backdrop of developments in small UK nations and regions 
regarding media production, this research project considers how local 
celebrity is created and managed in UK nations and regions. It explores 
the impact of institutional contexts on how celebrity is constructed and 
managed in local/regional contexts via the case studies of BBC 
production centres in Cardiff, Salford, and Glasgow. It focuses on these 
key sites of media production and potential celebrity to explore how 
celebrity is drawn upon and used in the discussion and promotion of 
these locations, and will aim to draw on the views of a range of 
cultural intermediaries in fields such as media production, tourism, 
local councils and other government groups, and local 
figures/celebrities themselves.

*/Start Date/*

The successful candidates for both of these projects will start no later 
than the end of January 2013.Any questions about these particular 
projects can be directed to (cnoonan /at/ glam.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(cnoonan /at/ glam.ac.uk)> or (rwillia3 /at/ glam.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(rwillia3 /at/ glam.ac.uk)>.  Application forms are available on 
http://office.research.glam.ac.uk/centenary/ and should be returned 
directly to *Dr Louise Bright *(researchoffice /at/ glam.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(researchoffice /at/ glam.ac.uk)>* **by no later than the _15th October 
2012._***