AHRC Midlands3Cities PhD funding for UK/EU students

The AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M3C) brings together six leading universities in the Midlands region: the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, De Montfort University, University of Leicester, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham.
M3C provides combined research expertise for the professional and personal development of the next generation of arts and humanities doctoral researchers. For 2018 entry, M3C is awarding up to 80 PhD Arts and Humanities Open Doctoral Competition studentships and is offering seven Midlands3Cities Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) for UK/EU applicants.

The Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:

African-American Literature, History and Culture
American Art and Visual Culture
American Intellectual History
American Labor History
American Music
American Popular Culture
American Political History
American Print Culture and Book History
Asian-American Literature and Culture
Canadian Literature and Culture
Civil Rights and  Social Justice
Contemporary American Fiction
Latino Culture
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
U.S. Foreign Policy

The deadline for AHRC M3C funding applications is 15 January 2018, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP.

For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas (including use of the supervision search tool) please visitwww.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk
For more information on the Department of American and Canadian Studies and its Postgraduate Research programme contactmatthew.pethers@nottingham.ac.uk

Information and proposal-writing workshops will be hosted in each of the three partner cities. Register for the workshop in Nottingham (taking place on 21st November) through eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m3c-dtp-2017-application-writing-workshop-nottingham-tickets-38075363437