NUAcT PhD Studentship - French Popular Entertainment 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 French popular Entertainment 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 and is anticipated to relate to the general framework of the research she is conducting on popular performance culture as a Newcastle University Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow. This PhD is emphatically interdisciplinary, and applications are welcomed from students of Modern Languages, Music, History, Theatre Studies, or other related fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: Café-concert, music-hall entertainments Popular /folk / amateur music making Popular entertainments in family and community spaces Visual spectacles Festivals, celebrations, and fairs Popular theatricals and theatres Dance on and off stage The performing body Entertainments and class, politics, ideologies Entertainments and material culture Practice-as-research as an approach to studying historical entertainments 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. Newcastle University offers a thriving and friendly community with an energetic research culture, including the Institute for Creative Arts Practice, Performance Research Network, and Humanities Research Institute, and has close links to local theatres and creative venues in Newcastle and the North East. 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.  Sponsor: Newcastle University’s NUAcT (Newcastle University Academic Track) scheme  Supervisors: Dr Hannah Scott  Eligibility criteria You will require a working knowledge of 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.