AHRC Midlands3cities Funding for UK/EU Students, University of Birmingham (16.01.2017)

H-Germanistik STIP: AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students, University of Birmingham (16.01.2017)

Discussion published by Elystan Griffiths on Thursday, December 1, 2016

AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students

The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C DTP) is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. M3C is awarding up to 87 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2017 entry. M3C provides research candidates with expert supervision (including opportunities for cross- institutional supervision), research training and access to a wide range of facilities, cohort events and placement opportunities with regional, national and international partners in the creative and cultural sectors.

GERMAN STUDIES in The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:

—17th and 18th-century German and European literature; the history of translation; literary translation; gender and translation.

—Modern German Literature; modernism; the everyday, the ecstatic, the exotic in literature; aesthetics; phenomenology of literature; cognitive literary theory.

—German culture and history since 1750, particularly the relationship between literature and politics; German cinema.

—Medieval and 16th-century literature and culture.

—GDR literature and culture, memory studies, memories of dictatorship, migration from Romania and Bulgaria.

—20th-century German literature; language teaching methodology.

—German intellectual and cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially Nietzsche, the First World War, and National Socialism.

—18thand 19th-century women's literature.

The deadline for M3C funding applications is 16 January 2017, by which time students must

Citation: Elystan Griffiths. STIP: AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students, University of Birmingham (16.01.2017). H- Germanistik. 12-01-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/79435/discussions/155139/stip-ahrc-midlands3cities-funding-ukeu-students-university Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Germanistik have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted to the home university on the correct M3C form.

More information

· For more information on the funding opportunities, and the Midlands3Cities consortium, please click http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk/midlands-3-cities/index.aspx

· For more information on AHRC applications to the University of Birmingham, please click http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/calgs/scholarships/ahrc-funding.aspx

Candidates in the first instance should identify a suitable supervisor and contact him or her. For information about potential supervisors in German Studies at Birmingham please visit: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/sections/german/staff/index.asp x

The University of Birmingham is also host to the Institute for German Studies (IGS), part of an active network of eighteen similar centres worldwide. The research activities of the IGS involve diverse and cross-disciplinary study of Germany in its European context. For more information, please see: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/centres/igs/index.aspx

Diese Ankündigung wurde von H-GERMANISTIK [Constanze Baum] betreut – [email protected]