Memorial Landscapes: Negotiating Post-conflict Spaces
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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This scholarship will investigate the temporal, cultural, material and experiential dimensions of ‘post-conflict’ spaces, understood as spaces where legacies of war and conflict may endure in memory, practice, unrest and community relations, and where meanings about past and present are created, lived, contested and negotiated.
Working with and developing a range of conceptual approaches utilised by the ‘spatial turn’ within historical, cultural and memory studies, you will focus on a specific memorial landscape or heritage site as a means of investigating and widening our knowledge of how the continuing legacies of war and conflict are engaged in ‘post-conflict’ spaces. Both the case chosen for analysis and the particular mix of approaches will be proposed by applicants and the successful candidate will negotiate the latter with their supervisors.
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
