Modern Languages AHRC Doctoral Award

The Department of Modern Languages of the University of Exeter is offering an excellent funding opportunity for an exceptional researcher in the area of Modern Languages. Up to 1 AHRC Doctoral Award (open to UK/EU students only): all tuition fees paid for three years. UK students will also receive an annual maintenance grant for three years, which we expect to be £13,590 per year.

The Department of Modern Languages is one of the UK’s leading centres for teaching and research in French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Russian and Film. The research covers critical theory, culture, history, linguistics and literature, and has cross-disciplinary strengths in a number of areas, including Medieval Studies, Linguistics, Film, Art History and Visual Culture, and Translation Studies. 

The Department has recently founded the College of Humanities Centre for Translating Cultures. Many staff in Modern Languages currently hold awards from Research Councils and similar funding bodies on subjects ranging from Immigrants’ Italian, German and Austrian exhibitions since 1995 about the National Socialist past, Obscenity in Renaissance France, A New History of Spanish Cinema: Middlebrow Films and Mainstream Audiences, ‘Reconfiguring the Canon of Twentieth Century Russian Poetry to costume-drama films of the 1950s.

Summary

How to apply

Entry criteria

For study in a language-based subject, students should have near native competence in that language and hold a Masters degree with at least a Merit, or international equivalent, in a languages-/ literature-based subject. For study in a non language-based or interdisciplinary subject, students should hold a Masters degree with at least a Merit or international equivalent, in a relevant discipline. Successful applications will normally also have a good first degree (at least 2.1 or international equivalent) in a relevant discipline. If English is not your native language then you will also need to satisfy the English language entry requirements.

To apply

To be considered for this Doctoral award, you must complete an online web form where you must submit some personal details and upload a full CV, research proposal, transcripts, details of two referees and, if relevant, proof of your English language proficiency, by 27 May 2013.

In addition you must also ensure that your referees email their references to the Postgraduate Administrator at humanities-pgadmissions@exeter.ac.uk by 27 May 2013. Please note that we will not be contacting referees to request references, you must arrange for them to be submitted to us by the deadline.

References should be submitted by your referees directly in the form of a letter. Referees must email their references from their institutional email accounts.  The references from personal/private email accountsare not accepted, unless it is a scanned document on institutional headed paper and signed by the referee.

All application documents must be submitted in English. Certified translated copies of academic qualifications must also be provided.

More information

For more information contact:

Morwenna Hussey, Senior Administrator
Email: humanities-pgadmissions@exeter.ac.uk

College of Humanities Graduate School, University of Exeter
Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive
Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QH

For more information visit http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/