What Constitutes Violence? Victims, Survivors and Trauma
Application deadline is 4pm, 27 June 2013
Potential applicants should have a minimum of a 2:1 undergraduate degree and desirably have/expect to achieve a Masters degree or equivalent with excellent grades in a relevant subject from a UK university or comparable qualifications from another recognised university. Applicants whose first language is not English, must have either obtained a UK Masters degree or successfully completed a Secure English Language Test (SELT) that satisfies one of the University’s English Language requirements as listed here: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/researchstudy/apply/entry within the last 2 years.
Only complete applications will be considered. The application is only complete once you have uploaded:
- Your research proposal* (maximum 1,000 words)
- Copies of your Bachelors and Master certificates, including transcripts
- Copy of your IELTS (or equivalent) certificate
- Copy of your passport
Two references uploaded or requested, one must be an academic reference from your most recent period of study. Both must have been written within the last year.
- The application deadline is 4pm on 27 June 2013.
- Applicants who have not been invited to interview three weeks following the deadline have not been successful.
- Interviews will take place between the 15 and 19 July 2013.
- Interviewees will be notified by 26 July 2013.
For more information contact our Doctoral College on +44 01273 642915 or doctoralcollegedean@brighton.ac.uk
* Research proposal: please state what you can bring to the project; research methodology/critical approaches, experience, original contribution to knowledge, key themes/concepts/ideas, bibliography etc.
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Recent scholarship has reconceptualised violence taking into account two aspects unrecognised in the liberal/empiricist paradigm. First, scholars have extended analysis to the different forms of violence - psychological, structural and physical (in for example Zizek’s work). Second, scholars have investigated how the different ‘experiences’ of violence might find adequate forms of representation, without doing to damage to these traumatic experiences. And what might be the implications of this for an understanding of violence more generally? You will engage with this body of critical theoretical scholarship, seeking to refine both the conceptualisation of violence, and the relationships between this conceptualisation and an ethics of violence.
Each studentship is worth at least £58,500 over three years, subject to satisfactory progress. For UK/EU students this comprises £4,420 per year (for three years) to cover annual tuition fees and a contribution towards living expenses of £15,080 per year (for three years). For suitable students from outside of the UK/EU the funding will comprise £13,500 per year (for three years) to cover annual international tuition fees and a contribution towards living expenses of £6,000 per year (for three years). The contribution available towards living costs will rise annually in line with inflation. The value of the studentship will also be raised to take into account any rise in annual tuition fees.
Contact the Doctoral College
For more information about this project, or to be put in contact with a supervisor, please contact the doctoral college.
+44 (0)1273 642915
doctoralcollegedean@brighton.ac.uk
