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[ecrea] PhD Studentships in Film and Media at the University of Kent,

Wed Nov 11 01:10:56 GMT 2015




*PhD Studentships in Film and Media at the University of Kent, 2016-17
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The Centre for Film and Media Research (CFMR) at the University of Kent
is pleased to invite applications for PhD studentships, through the AHRC
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE)
Doctoral Training Partnership.


Staff affiliated to CFMR come from the School of Arts, School of
European Culture and Languages and School of Engineering and Digital
Arts, ensuring a wide range of expertise. We are particularly interested
in receiving applications in the following areas:


·       Animation

·       American cinema (Hollywood, formulaic movies, ‘independent’)

·       Art cinema

·       Avant-garde and experimental film

·       Censorship and regulation

·       Classical and contemporary film theory

·       Costume

·       Digital technologies

·       Distribution and exhibition, funding and policy

·       Documentary

·       Emotions and morality

·       European cinema

·       Film authorship

·       Film culture (reception, fandom, intersection with other
cultural forms)

·       Film criticism

·       Genres (romantic-comedy, melodrama, gothic, horror)

·       Latin American cinema

·       Media industry studies

·       Practice as research

·       Pre- and early cinema

·       Space and place

·       Stardom

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*AHRC CHASE*


The University of Kent is proud to be part of the Consortium for the
Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) which was awarded a
£17 million Doctoral Training Partnership by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) in October 2013. Our partners include The
Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths College, the Open University, and
the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, and Sussex. SOAS and Birkbeck
College joined the consortium as associate members in 2014.


CHASE is one of only 11 UK AHRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnerships
and the partners have committed an additional £10 million in studentship
funding which will allow CHASE to provide AHRC awards to over 375 PhD
students in the arts and humanities across the partner institutions over
five years.


CHASE will offer students a wide range of exciting opportunities to gain
professional experience, work across institutions and disciplines, and
acquire advanced research skills. Further information is available from
the CHASE website <http://www.chase.ac.uk/>.

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*How to apply*

New students wishing to be considered for these scholarships must apply
for a PhD place at the University of Kent
<http://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/apply/> by *13th January
2016* at the latest. Any current PhD students wishing to be considered
for AHRC funding should contact their School Director of Graduate
Studies (with responsibility for research programmes) to advise them of
this as soon as possible or by *13th January 2016 *at the very latest.
CHASE will fund up to 75 doctoral studentships for admission in 2016.

Applicants can find further details
<http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/research_council/ahrc.html> on
the University’s postgraduate scholarships and loans webpages and on the
relevant Schools’ webpages. Applicants are advised, in the first
instance, to contact the Director of the Centre for Film ad Media
Research, Dr Lavinia Brydon on (l.brydon /at/ kent.ac.uk)
<mailto:(l.brydon /at/ kent.ac.uk)> to discuss proposals and suitable supervisors.

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