Six PhD Bursaries - Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at Manchester University

The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, invites applications from highly qualified postgraduate students for six three-year PhD bursaries of £ 3,370 p.a. (towards fees and/or maintenance) to enable them to research and write doctoral dissertations on any aspect of one of the following broadly defined themes:
* Living Cosmopolitanism: Cities, Transnationalities and Migration
* Injustice, Inequality and Violence: Rethinking Materialities
* Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Film, Technology and Fantasy
* Imagining Otherness, Embodying Difference: Gender and Postcolonialism
* Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism: History, Literature and Memory
* Belonging and Exclusion: Exile, Diaspora and Cultures of Citizenship

We expect to award six bursaries in total. Successful candidates will be based in RICC and one of the participating Schools: School of Social Sciences (SOSS); School of Arts Histories and Cultures (SAHC); and School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures (SLLC). It is a condition of the award that recipients of the RICC PhD Bursaries be (co)supervised by one of the three full-time RICC Chairs:

Nina Glick Schiller (Professor of Social Anthropology, SOSS)
Jackie Stacey (Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, SAHC)
Galin Tihanov (Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History, SLLC).

Other members of RICC’s academic staff, which includes the RICC RCUK/Leverhulme Fellows and Postdoctoral Associates, can also be involved in the supervision (for the research interests of the RICC Chairs and of the other members of academic staff at RICC, please see website detailed below).

For further particulars see: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/