Award Summary
The studentship will cover 100% of home tuition fees and comes with an annual stipend tracking UKRI funding rates (£19,237 FTE in 2024-25), and a generous research expenses allowance. Home and international applicants are welcome to apply. Successful international candidates will need to be able to fund the difference between home fees and international tuition fees (applications can be made to the university NUORS scheme for assistance, but it is competitive and cannot be guaranteed). Information about the 2025 scheme will be available soon at www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding
Overview
The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University invites applications for a funded doctoral studentship within the broad area of French studies in the long nineteenth century. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape their own research project related to this general topic. Interdisciplinary proposals are warmly encouraged, and applications are welcomed from students of Modern Languages, Musicology, History, Art History, Theatre Studies, English, Comparative Studies, or other related fields in the Humanities. Their research will be supervised by Dr Hannah Scott and a second co-supervisor, to be selected depending on the particular focus of the project.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Cultural history, broadly conceived
• Music, theatre, and entertainments
• Visual arts, visual culture, and their evolutions
• Literature and text
• Legacies of revolution and social change
• Fashion, material culture, and their related industries
• Understudied histories (e.g. along lines of sex, gender, class, ethnicity, age)
• Paris and its national/international connections
• Ideologies, ideological shifts, ideological products
The successful candidate will be expected to focus primarily on long nineteenth-century France (1789-1914), but proposals with a broader chronological and/or geographical focus will also be considered.
Number Of Awards
1
Start Date
The successful applicant is expected to start in January 2025 or September 2025.
Award Duration
3 years full time. Part-time working patterns are available, including to accommodate caring responsibilities, disabilities, or other requirements.
Application Closing Date
November 1st 2024
Sponsor
Newcastle University’s NUAcT (Newcastle University Academic Track) scheme
Supervisors
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants require a fluent level of English, a sound working knowledge of French, and will need to have achieved a Merit or higher in a Masters degree in a relevant field before commencing the project (or a 2:1 in an undergraduate degree and professional experience in a field relevant to their proposed project).
If English is not your first language, you must have IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills).
Home and international students are welcome to apply; however, we regret that the studentship only covers fees at the home rate.
How To Apply
Applications should be submitted through Newcastle University’s Apply to Newcastle portal.
Once registered on the Newcastle University portal, select ‘Create a Postgraduate Application’.
Use ‘Course Search’ to identify your programme of study:
- you can search for the ‘Course Title’ using the programme code: 8220F (full-time) or 8220P (part-time)
- the Research Area is: Modern Languages
- select ‘PhD School of Modern Languages’ as the programme of study
You will then need to provide the following information in the ‘Further Details’ section:
- a ‘Personal Statement’ (max. 1500 words), including a research proposal and a statement of how your experience has equipped you for the proposed project, and proficiency in French
- the studentship code SML012 in the ‘Studentship/Partnership Reference’ field
- when prompted for how you are providing your research proposal – select ‘Write Proposal’ You should then type in the title of the research project from this advert – you do not need to upload a separate research proposal.
In addition, before you submit your application you will need to upload the following supporting documentation:
- CV with details of 2 referees (3 pages max.)
- undergraduate degree transcript, master’s certificate if already completed, and/or other relevant certificates
You will not be able to submit your application until you have submitted all required documents/information.
Contact Details
For all informal inquiries, please contact Dr Hannah Scott – hannah.scott@newcastle.ac.uk
For practical queries about the submission process, please contact – pgadmissions@ncl.ac.uk
