Open to: UK/EU and non-EU applicants; at the rate of £15,000 per annum (incl. fees; stipend, travel)
We are delighted
that Aberystwyth University’s Alumni are supporting a PhD studentship
through the Annual Fund in celebration of the Department’s 40th
anniversary in 2013:
“Wales,
Culture and Commercial Television: the relationship between a new
technology and cultural life in Wales in the 1950s and 60s”
Television arrived
in Wales as a new and exciting cultural force, challenging older forms
of relationships and offering new ways of configuring cultural relations
in society. There has not been any work to date which has taken the
history of television in Wales and delved into the way it interacted
Welsh culture. This doctoral research project (under the supervision of
Professor Tom O’Malley and Dr Jamie Medhurst) will look a the ways in
which drama, performance and art were represented on Welsh television in
the 1950s and 1960, and relate these representations to the reasons why
they were produced, the nature of the productions and the impact they
had. It will draw on the specialist skills of the Department in Welsh
media history, policy and the history of theatre and performance. The
research will draw on the holdings of a number of national media
archives, in particular the ITV Wales Archive, recently deposited at The
National Library of Wales.
General Information:
The Department’s
established reputation for conducting leading-edge, international
quality esearch makes TFTS an ideal place to pursue doctoral study. We
offer supervision and research training in both English and Welsh, in
the broad areas of history, politics, place and aesthetics with a focus
on topics such as: aesthetics, politics and social engagement;
site-specific performance; ecology and performance; Welsh and
minority-language theatre, film, television and online media;
contemporary British and Irish theatre; documentary and verbatim
theatre; theatre and
philosophy;
performance historiography and archiving; national and trans-national
processes of production and contexts of reception; film, press and
broadcasting structures, histories and regulatory policies; alternative,
avant-garde and experimental theatre and film; television drama, genres
and aesthetics; media fan, reception and audience studies; documentary
film and television; horror, fantasy and cult film and television; film
stardom and performance; Russian cinema and theatre. www.aber.ac.uk/en/tfts/research/
Applications to all scholarships
should include a statement of the intended topic of research,
indicating the research question(s), the intellectual contexts framing
the questions (with a bibliography of key references), and an outline of
the methods of research. Applicants should also explain why they
believe this topic is of interest and importance. Typically, this
statement will be between 1,000-1,500 words. For guidelines on the
required proposal format visit:
For further particulars and guidance on preparing an application, please contact:
Ms Catrin Davies, Acting Departmental Research Administrator, 01970 621517, ctd@aber.ac.uk
To discuss your application informally please contact:
Professor Heike Roms, Director of Postgraduate Studies, 01970 621911, hhp@aber.ac.uk
Application Forms and Guidelines: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/postgrad/howtoapply/
