[ecrea] PhD studentships in Film at Newcastle University

Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Studentships in Film 
Studies at Newcastle University



Closing Date: 26 January 2015



The Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership invites top-calibre 
applicants to apply to its doctoral studentships competition 2015. More 
than fifty fully-funded doctoral studentships are available across the 
full range of arts and humanities subjects, including Film.



Northern Bridge is an exciting, AHRC-funded collaboration between 
Newcastle University, Durham University and Queen’s University Belfast. 
Our aim is to deliver outstanding doctoral education in the arts and 
humanities, and successful applicants will join a thriving cohort of 
almost fifty Northern Bridge PhD students recruited through last year’s 
studentship competition. Northern Bridge offers exceptional supervision 
by academic staff researching at the cutting edge of their disciplines, 
vibrant research environments that promote interdisciplinary enquiry, 
and research training and career development opportunities tailored to 
the needs of twenty-first century researchers.



Film Studies at Newcastle offers supervision in the following areas:



·       Gender and cinema (Dr Bell, Dr Leahy ,Dr Yu)

·       Stardom (Dr Bell, Dr Leahy , Dr Shail, Dr Yu)

·       Genre (Prof Austin, Dr Page, Dr Shail)



National cinemas, including:

    * British film history (Dr Bell)
    * Chinese-language cinema (Dr Yu)
    * French and Algerian cinema (Prof Austin, Dr Leahy)
    * Japanese anime (Dr Yoshioka)
    * Spanish and Latin American cinema (Dr Page)
    * UK and Hollywood film history (Dr Shail)

Please see our website for more information about Film Studies Newcastle 
www.ncl.ac.uk/film



Northern Bridge students benefit from our close partnerships with 
prestigious local and national organisations in the cultural, heritage, 
broadcasting, and government sectors. Our partners provide a wide range 
of placement, research, and training opportunities, and currently 
comprise: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; BBC Northern Ireland; 
Belfast City Council; Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure NI; Durham 
Cathedral; National Media Museum; New Writing North; Newcastle City 
Council; Sage Gateshead; Seven Stories National Centre for Children’s 
Books; The Bowes Museum; Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums; and Wordsworth 
Trust.



We provide a comprehensive and attractive package of financial support 
over the duration of study, which incorporates:



•       fees and maintenance at the UK Research Councils’ national rate

•       a research training support grant (RTSG) to fund the costs of 
study abroad, conference attendance and fieldwork

•       financial support to attend our cohort-building events

•       financial support to incorporate short-term placements, 
international study visits and specialist training events in order to 
develop your skills.



For further details, please see the Northern Bridge website: 
http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/


Dr Sabrina Qiong Yu
Programme Director of MA Film: Theory and Practice
School of Modern Languages
Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

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