Award - PhD scholarship including:
- a stipend of £19,237 per year
- a tuition fee waiver for three years
- an annual expense allowance of £500.
Deadline
5 August 2024.
Eligibility criteria
- We welcome applications from researchers in under-represented and underserved groups. We actively encourage applicants from diverse career paths and backgrounds, as well as from those returning from a career break.
- Applications will be considered based on the quality of the research proposal and its alignment with the research theme below. However the proposal is a draft at this stage and this will be supported to develop together with the supervisor within the first 6 months of study.
- We offer PhD by portfolio, PhD by thesis, PhD by Practice as Research and PhD by publication (as choreography for established artists).
- Applicants should hold at least an Upper Second Class Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in dance, creative arts or performing arts, or other relevant subject area or industry equivalent experience.
- The successful applicant will be required to undertake a total of 150 hours of teaching-related work during years two and three of study (this will be negotiated with the successful applicant and can be online engagement).
- The applicant must have applied for both a place on the PhD programme, as well as a scholarship by the scholarship application deadline.
- The successful candidate must be available to begin their studies on 1 October 2024 on a full-time basis (FT can be flexible and mean intensive periods of study each year or 2/3 days a week study).
- The successful scholarship applicant must live in the UK during their studies, within commutable distance to campus, although tutorials can be done online.
- Access requirements can be supported. Our campus is fully accessible and we also have a student support hub who can offer advice, equipment and resources including IT support, and mentors as appropriate.
Scholarship focus
Do please propose a project that is related to any aspect of:
Dance practice and/or theory. For example:
- dance and health/wellbeing
- dance and disability
- dance and power
- dance pedagogy
- dance and socially engaged practice
- dance and maternity
- dance and psychology
- dance and early years
- dance and sociology
- dance and leadership
- dance and embodiment
- dance and performance.
Professor Angela Pickard will be the first supervisor. Second supervisors/Chair can be from for example, wider Performing Arts, Music, Media, Psychology, Medicine, Health and Social Care, or Education.