The Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London is inviting applicants to our PhD programme.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Royal Holloway is a member of TECHNE (with the Royal College of Art, the University of Arts London, Kingston University, the University of Roehampton, the University of Brighton and the University of Surrey), a consortim that was recently awarded an AHRC Block Grant Partnership.
THIS PROVIDES STUDENTSHIPS OF THREE YEARS MAINTENANCE AT £15,863 PER YEAR AND THREE YEARS FULL-TIME FEES FOR UK STUDENTS AND FULL-TIME FEES FOR EUROPEAN STUDENTS. Students who apply for a TECHNE award will be considered automatically for College Scholarships.
Media Arts has a wide variety of recognized strengths in research, ranging from modernist art practices to British cinema to TV history and aesthetics. At present we particularly seek proposals in the areas of
*ASIAN CINEMAS
*TRANSNATIONAL AND DIASPORIC CINEMAS and
*FILM AESTHETICS IN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN CINEMAS.
A list of staff and their interests is available here.
It is a distinctive feature of Media Arts’ research culture that staff and students engage in both conventional
scholarship and theoretically-informed practice. Applications for doctoral research in creative practice are welcomed.
APPLICANTS FOR FUNDED RESEARCH ARE ASKED TO SUBMIT A PRELIMINARY RESEARCH PROPOSAL OF
AT LEAST 1500 WORDS AND A CURRENT CV TO THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH,
MANDY MERCK, AT m.merck@rhul.ac.uk BY DECEMBER 12, 2014, IN ORDER TO PREPARE A FINAL PROPOSAL FOR
THE TECHNE SUBMISSION DEADLINE OF MIDNIGHT 7 FEBRUARY 2015.