NUAcT PhD Studentship - Parisian Cultural History in the Long Nineteenth Century

Award summary

The studentship will cover 100% of home tuition fees and an annual stipend of £18,622 (FTE) for 3 years, plus a 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).

Overview

The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University invites applications for a doctoral studentship within the broad area of Parisian cultural history in the long nineteenth century. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape their own research project related to this broad topic. Their research will be supervised by Dr Hannah Scott. Interdisciplinary proposals are warmly encouraged, and applications are welcomed from students of Modern Languages, Musicology, History, Art History, Theatre Studies, Comparative Studies, or other related fields in the Humanities.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Visual culture and its evolutions
• Public entertainments and spectacles
• Music in public and/or private spaces
• Popular culture, broadly conceived
• Cultural impacts of revolution, politics, and social change
• High-/low-brow culture
• Fashion, material culture, and commerce
• Cultural history and literature/text
• Cultural divides by class, gender, origins, age…
• Parisian culture and its national/international connections

The successful candidate will be expected to focus primarily on long nineteenth-century Paris (1789-1914), but proposals with a broader chronological and/or geographical focus will also be considered. Please note that all doctoral candidates are co-supervised, and a suitable second supervisor will be selected depending on the particular focus of the successful candidate’s project.

Number of awards: 1

Start date

The successful applicant is expected to start in September 2024 (or shortly thereafter with the agreement of the supervisor).

Award duration

3 years full time. Part-time working patterns are available, including to accommodate caring responsibilities, disabilities, or other requirements.

Application closing date: April 10^th 2024

Sponsor

Newcastle University’s NUAcT (Newcastle University Academic Track) scheme

Name of supervisor: Dr Hannah Scott

Eligibility Criteria

You will require a sound reading ability in French and to have achieved Merit or higher in a Master's 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 your 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

For details of how to apply, please see https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=sml012

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

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