[Commlist] AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD funding for UK/International applicants for 2022

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 93 doctoral studentships for UK and International 
applicants for 2022 entry through Open Competition and 16 Collaborative 
Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a range of 
partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sectors.

*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 cross-faculty 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 Arts Centre Archives, and the collections of 
screenwriter Andrew Davies,LGBTQartist Andrew Logan and 
broadcaster/journalist Anita Anand. We host the annual UK Asian Film 
Festival, the BFI British Silent Film Festival and the post-graduate 
conference CATHICon, and promote practice-based research via the 
DocHub@DMU. 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
• 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>

*Additionally, for 2022, we invite applications for the following 
dedicated archival projects:*

  * International Sport on British Newsreels, 1910-1970 - supervisor:
    Dr. Matthew Jones (matthew.jones /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
  * Leicester’s Phoenix: The growth of regional theatre and the
    development of UK arts cinema from 1960 to the present, based around
    the Phoenix archive and the establishment of the BFI Regional Film
    Theatres – supervisor: Laraine Porter (lporter /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
  * Marketing Bollywood and regional Indian cinemas in the UK:
    promotional materials from the Cinema Museum's Indian Cinemas
    Collection – supervisor: Dr. Monia Acciari (monia.acciari /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
  * Post-1970 British alternative and queer cultures, drawing on the
    Andrew Logan archive – supervisor: Prof. Claire (Monkcmonk /at/ dmu.ac.uk)
  * Palace Revolution: British Independent Cinema in the 1980s and 90s
    (using the Palace Pictures/Scala Productions archive) - supervisor:
    Prof. Steve (Chibnallschib /at/ dmu.ac.uk)

For enquiries about these specific projects please contact the named 
supervisors.

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> (*DMU 
deadline 3rd December 2021*). Following internal approval, the online 
deadline for M4C funding applications is *12th** January 2022 
(noon)*. For informal enquiries and advice on developing proposals for 
CATHI please contact: Professor Justin Smith ((Justin.Smith /at/ dmu.ac.uk))or 
Professor Claire Monk ((cmonk /at/ dmu.ac.uk))
Midlands4Cities DTP - DMU 
<https://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/midlands4cities-dtp/m4c.aspx>
The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (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 ...
www.dmu.ac.uk


Applicants are strongly advised to book a place on the 
(online)application writing workshop on *6th November*(register here 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midlands4cities-application-writing-workshop-leicester-tickets-180748111467 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/midlands4cities-application-writing-workshop-leicester-tickets-180748111467>)

For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and 
CDA projects, please visit: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/ 
<https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/>or contact 
(enquiries /at/ midlands4cities.ac.uk)

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