Deadline: 11 January 2016
Open to: postgraduate students with outstanding academic backgrounds and research potential within the full range of arts and humanities subjects, including creative practice disciplines
Studentship: fully-funded
Open to: postgraduate students with outstanding academic backgrounds and research potential within the full range of arts and humanities subjects, including creative practice disciplines
Studentship: fully-funded
Description
Northern
Bridge offers over fifty fully-funded studentships per year
to outstanding postgraduate researchers across the full range of Arts and
Humanities subjects, including Creative Practice disciplines. Northern
Bridge is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It brings
together the cutting-edge expertise and exceptional resources of Newcastle University, Durham University andQueen’s University Belfast and
their Strategic
Partners. Northern Bridge students benefit from supervision, training
and development of the highest quality, tailored to the needs of
twenty-first-century researchers.
Eligibility
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
Postgraduate students with research potential in
interdisciplinary projects encompassing two or more of these fields:
Archaeology, Classics, Creative Writing, Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies,
Drama and Theatre Studies, English Language and Literature, Ethnography and
Anthropology, Film History, Theory and Criticism, French Studies, German
Studies, Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, History, Interpreting
and Translation, Italian Studies, Law and Legal Studies, Linguistics, Media and
Communication Studies, Museum Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and
International Studies (Diplomacy & International Relations), Russian
Studies, Theology, Divinity and Religion, Visual Arts, encompassing Art Theory
& Aesthetics, and theoretical, historical, critical and practice-based
approaches to the following: Fine Art; Digital Arts; Photography; Community
Art; Installation Art; Sound Art; Film-/ Time-Based Art; and Architecture;
Evidence of academic excellence at both undergraduate and
postgraduate level, as well as evidence that the student has sufficient
research skills to undertake the project;
Applicants must be United Kingdom citizens or residents
of another European Union country.
What does it cover?
The Northern Bridge provides a comprehensive and
attractive package of financial support over the duration of study, which
incorporates:
payment of tuition fees;
a maintenance award at the UK Research Councils’ national
rate (currently £14,057 per annum);
a research training support grant (RTSG) to fund the costs
of study abroad, conference attendance and fieldwork;
financial support to participate in the annual Northern
Bridge Autumn Conference, Winter School and Summer School, which include
specialist training as well as events focussing on career development and
enhancing your employability;
financial support for placements, international study visits
and the acquisition of the skills necessary for you to complete your PhD to the
highest standards.
How to apply?
Before starting the application process, please read the
following guide carefully.
There are two stages in the application process:
1) Step One:
Contact the Subject Area whether your area of research interest can be supervised and supported, and begin to identify suitable supervisors.
1) Step One:
Contact the Subject Area whether your area of research interest can be supervised and supported, and begin to identify suitable supervisors.
2) Step Two:
Complete an online application form of the University at which you would like to study.
Complete an online application form of the University at which you would like to study.
As the selection process require you to apply through the
online application form of the University at which you would like to study, you
must include the code AH16 on your application form to indicate that you wish
to be considered for a Northern Bridge award:
Applicants to Newcastle
University should quote AH16 under ‘Studentship/Partnership Reference’
and ‘Who is your sponsor/funding body?’
Applicants to Durham
University should insert AH16 where asked on the form ‘How do you
intend to finance your tuition fees’ and ‘living expenses?’
Applicants to Queen’s
University Belfast should tick ‘I will apply separately to an external
body’ then enter AH16 under ‘To which body do you intend to apply?’
For more information please visit the official
website.
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