Faculty Studentship Opportunities

The Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences is pleased to announce five fully funded 3-year postgraduate research studentships (fees and subsistence at Research Council rates) to start in October 2013 in the following areas:

• School of Arts: Cultural Production, Creative Practices, Dance, Digital Arts, Film, Interdisciplinary Arts, Music, Performance, Sound Recording, Theatre.
• School of English and Languages: English Literature, Creative Writing, Translation Studies, Modern Languages, Theoretic Linguistics (Morphology) and Applied Linguistics (Intercultural Communication).
• School of Politics: European Politics, International Politics, Political Theory and Political Behaviour, Political Participation, Citizenship & Political Psychology, International Intervention.
• School of Psychology: Cognitive Processes (creative thinking and decision making; Infant Colour perception); Environmental Psychology (sustainable consumption, environmental risks); Social Psychology (identity, history of psychology, religion and spirituality); Forensic Psychology (decision-making in the criminal justice system); Health Psychology (health and stress, eating and exercise behaviour, nutrition policy and interventions); Neuroscience (functional connectivity, representation of action) and Neuropsychology (sleep and cognition in neurodisorders).
• Department of Sociology: Criminology and Criminal Justice; Identities, Generation and Everyday Life; Media, Culture and Communication; Science, Environment and Technologies; Work, Organisations and Inequalities; Developments in Methodology.

Applicants must apply in two stages:

• An application must be submitted for admission to the relevant PhD programme by 1 February 2013 at the latest. Details on how to apply can be found here:
  You must contact the School/Department before submission in order to discuss your proposal.
• If you are offered a place, the deadline for submission of the Studentship application is 4pm, 22 February 2013; relevant documents can be downloaded from this page.

Some teaching and/or other research-related duties will be assigned as part of the Studentship.
Full studentships are only available to UK students and other EU students who have been resident in the UK for 3 years on 30 September 2013.

Applicants will be informed by late May of the outcome of their applications.
For further information please contact:
Professor Mark Olssen (tel: +44 (0)1483 682120, email)
Or
Miss El Rolfe (tel. +44 (0)1483 683551, email)