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[Commlist] AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK/EU applicants

Tue Oct 15 18:48:31 GMT 2019







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.

M4C is awarding up to 94 doctoral studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2020 through an open competition and 15 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a range of partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sector.

The *Dance, Drama and Performance Studies Research Institute <https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/iddps/index.aspx> (DDPS)* aims to produce innovative research, both scholarly and practice-based, on performance, which embraces diversity and connects academics from within contexts of dance, drama, Live Art, adaptations, and performance research.  The DDPS's core emphasis on research excellence is supported by its international collaborations, strong connections with industry and dynamic explorations across areas engaging with Process, Politics, Philosophy. All of this fuels our vibrant PhD community and annual interdisciplinary conference, /Borderlines/.

We invite applications from well-qualified students whose research interests connect with our fields of expertise in:


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    Live Art and contemporary performance
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    Performer training and performance process
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    Intermedial performance
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    Interdisciplinary performance
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    Participatory and activist performance
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    Gender and performance (in live performance and on screen)
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    Documentation and performance
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    Adaptation
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    Directing / producing for radio or stage
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    Writing for performance
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    Popular performance, clowning and comedy
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    Applied drama and storytelling, community performance
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    Restoration theatre and Shakespeare in performance
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    Contemporary dance, performance and improvisational practices
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    Dance of the African diaspora
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    Performance philosophy

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 (deadline 27 November 2019). Following internal approval, the online deadline for M4C funding applications is 14 January 2020 (noon). For informal enquiries and advice on developing proposals for the DDPS, please contact: Dr. Alissa Clarke ((a.clarke /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.clarke /at/ dmu.ac.uk)>).

For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of M4C’s November application writing workshops, please visit: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/ or contact: (enquiries /at/ midlands4cities.ac.uk)



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