The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands to support the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. M4C is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Leicester, De Montfort University, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. 
 M4C is awarding up to 89 doctoral studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2020 through an open competition and 21 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) through a linked competition with a range of partner organisations in the cultural, creative and heritage sector.
English at Nottingham Trent University is inviting applications from students whose research interests connect with our fields of expertise in:

• American literature and cultural history
• Colonial, postcolonial, global, and world literatures and cultures
• Contemporary literature and culture
• Creative writing and critical-creative research
• Literature and environmentalism
• Gender and sexuality
• Gothic literature
• Literary and cultural theory
• Literature and technology
• Literature, film and visual culture
• Magazine and periodical writing
• Medical Humanities
• Modernism
• Poetry and poetics
• Popular fiction
• Race, Rights and Activist Writing
• Romantic literature
• Shakespeare and Early Modern writing
• Travel writing
• War and literature
• Women’s writing

The deadline for M4C funding applications is 13 January 2021 (noon), by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted using the Midlands4Cities online reference form. 

For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of our November application writing workshops, please visit  https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands4cities.ac.uk

We are delighted to have been awarded Midlands 4 Cities funding for a collaborative doctoral award with the National Railway Museum for a project on 'Writing the Train: Accounts of Railway Travel'. The deadline is 13 January 2021 (at noon, UK time) but potential applicants who meet the eligibility criteria are advised to email any inquiries to Tim Youngs well in advance.

The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. M3C is awarding up to 80 PhD Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships for UK/EU applicants for 2018 entry.

M3C is also awarding 7 Collaborative Doctoral Awards with partner organisations: Flatpack Festival, Leicester City Council, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, Nottingham Contemporary, Oxford Lieder, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Spalding Gentlemen's Society.

M3C provides research candidates with expert supervision (including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate), research training and access to a wide range of facilities, cohort events and placement opportunities with regional, national and international partners in the cultural, creative and heritage sectors.

English at Nottingham Trent University is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:

• American literature and cultural history
• Colonial, postcolonial, global, and world literatures and cultures
• Creative writing and critical-creative research
• Gender and sexuality
• Literary and cultural theory
• Literature and technology
• Literature, film and visual culture
• Magazine and periodical writing
• Modernist and postmodernist literature
• Poetry and poetics
• Popular fiction
• Race, Rights and Activist Writing
• Romantic literature
• Shakespeare and Early Modern writing
• TRAVEL WRITING
• War and literature
• Women’s writing

The deadline for M3C funding applications is Monday 15 January 2018, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have ensured that two academic references are submitted to the home university on the correct M3C form. For full details of eligibility, funding, research supervision areas and CDA projects, and for dates of our November application writing workshops, please visit www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk.

We welcome applications from prospective students wishing to pursue a PhD on travel writing under the guidance of a supervision team led by Professor Tim Youngs at the Centre for Travel Writing Studies.

There is no restriction as to historical or geographical focus or type of critical approach, but proposals relating to post-medieval travel writing and any of the following areas may be especially welcome: North America; Italy; India; travel writing and modes of transport; the poetry of travel; modernism and travel; postcolonialism and travel; creative-critical work; radical travel writing; diasporic travel narratives; travel writing and the Midlands. We also welcome single-author studies, particularly of unjustly neglected figures.

The studentship covers the cost of fees at home/EU rates and includes an annual stipend in line with AHRC bursary rates (£14296) for 3 years.
The successful applicant will be expected to support the Centre’s activities.

Closing Date:  5pm on Monday, 29 August 2016. 

For full details on how to apply, visit:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOF957/professor-tim-youngs-the-literature-of-travel/

Opportunity for a fully funded PhD studentship in the Literature of Travel at the Centre for Travel Writing Studies as part of the NTU Vice-Chancellor's Researcher Development Scheme.

We welcome applications from prospective PhD students wishing to work on a travel writing project under the guidance of a supervision team led by Professor Tim Youngs. There is no restriction as to historical or geographical focus or critical approach, but proposals relating to any of the following areas may be especially welcome: North America; Italy; India; travel writing and modes of transport; the poetry of travel; modernism and travel; postcolonialism and travel; creative-critical work; radical travel writing; diasporic travel narratives; travel writing and the Midlands. We also welcome single-author studies, particularly of unjustly neglected figures. The successful applicant will be expected to support CTWS activities.

Exceptional candidates will have the chance to follow up their PhDs with a one year position at NTU as a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate.

Deadline for Applications: 5pm on Sunday, 5 June 2016

For details on how to apply visit: http://tinyurl.com/zhg2laf