AHRC Midlands3Cities funding for UK/EU students
The Midlands3Cities doctoral training partnership is a collaboration between the universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, De Montfort, Birmingham and Birmingham City. The DTP is in the third of five years, awarding up to 89 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2016 entry. M3C provides research candidates with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision (including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate), subject-specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.
**The Department of Music at the University of Nottingham** is inviting applications. We have particular interests in four broad, overlapping areas:
1. music, space and place
20th-century Amsterdam; 19th-century Paris and London; 18th-century Italy and Germany; Vietnam; the Far East; medieval cities; digital heritage2. music—text—image
opera; film and TV; ballet; music and visual cultures; pervasive media; music for screen and stage; music and poetry; music and sculpture3. musical creativity and community
18th-century pedagogy; jazz; popular music in the Far East; American popular tradition; composition; contemporary performance practice; performance with new technologies; music and health4. music, politics and identity
music and conflict; music and democracy; composing for American vernacular instruments; music and revolution; the politics of musical modernism; music and social mobility; music and minorities, ethnicity and nationality
The deadline for AHRC M3C funding applications is **12 January 2016**, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP.
For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas (including use of the supervision search tool) please contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk
Information and proposal-writing workshops will be hosted in each of the three partner cities.
Register for the workshop in Nottingham (taking place on 21st November) through eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/midlands3cities-doctoral-training-partnership-6326720187