PhD Bursary - Feminist Philsophy - Dundee

If I didn't own a house, I'd be off to Dundee in a heartbeat.  I love the Philosophy Dept there!


Please find below details of a PhD full home fees bursary in Philosophy at the University of Dundee - please encourage strong candidates to apply.
Research Studentship Fees Bursary in Philosophy (£10,200 over 3 years)

Philosophy Programme, University of Dundee
Applications are invited for this three year fees bursary to support a full time PhD student attached to the Philosophy Programme. Applicants should have a strong PhD proposal and a good Honours degree in Philosophy or a related subject area; a taught postgraduate degree (MA or MLitt) is an advantage.
PhD proposals are welcomed in any area of European Philosophy in which the Programme can provide appropriate supervision. Preference will be given to projects involving feminist philosophy or issues of gender. For further details of staff specialisms, please see the Guide for Postgraduate Applicants on the Philosophy website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/pgguideapplicants.htm
The bursary covers home (UK/EU) PhD fees; applications from international students are welcome, although students would have to secure separate funding to cover the remainder of the international PhD fees.
The bursary is attached to the role of Project Assistant for a Royal Society of Edinburgh Network Grant, Engendering Dialogue: Feminist Thought and Contemporary Debates in Art, Science and Education. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake c.300 hours of project support over their first 2 years of study. The third year of study is tied to a teaching assistantship involving 3 contact hours per week over two semesters (22 weeks in total), teaching philosophy tutorials to Level 1 or 2 undergraduate students.
Applications should be made via the standard research student application procedure. Further information is available in the Guide for Postgraduate Applicants on the Philosophy website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/pgguideapplicants.htm

Please signal on your application that you wish to be considered for the fees bursary.
Applications for this bursary must be submitted by 16th August 2010. The start date will be between September - December 2010.
Informal enquiries about the bursary and/or the related role as Project Assistant for the RSE Network Grant should be directed to Dr Rachel Jones: r.e.jones@dundee.ac.uk

Fellowship for Women in Philosophy

National Humanities Center Offers Fellowship for Young Women in Philosophy

The National Humanities Center has endowed a fellowship in philosophy in memory of the late Philip Quinn. It will be awarded to young women in philosophy, preferably untenured assistant professors. The first award will be made for the academic year 2011-12, and the fellowship will be awarded annually thereafter. The fellowship will support a year in residence at the National Humanities Center with a fellowship stipend of $50,000 plus travel expenses. The application deadline is October 15, 2010.
Applicants should submit the Center’s standard form, available online at nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm Candidates eligible for the Quinn Fellowship will automatically be considered. For the purposes of this fellowship the Center will waive its normal expectation that recent Ph.D.s not be revising dissertations.
For further information on the Quinn Fellowship, see nationalhumanitiescenter.org/newsrel2010/prquinnfellowship.htm

Project Funding Opportunity - Humanities

This is a call for proposals for the 12th tranche of project funding from the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies

Total funding available = £25,000; maximum funding per project = £4,000

Application deadline: 1 June 2010

Applications are welcomed for the funding of projects designed to:
- encourage a culture in which innovative developments in learning, teaching and assessment are valued and acknowledged at a national level
- promote good practice in the development and evaluation of innovative methods of learning, teaching and assessment
- disseminate within the wider community innovative methods or materials originally developed for use within a single institution

in subject disciplines the Subject Centre covers:
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
- Theology
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Philosophy of Science

For further details and how to apply, please visit the Subject Centre website: http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/view.html/PrsFundingOps/12

Dr. Clare Saunders
Senior Academic Co-ordinator (Philosophy)
Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
School of Humanities
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
URL: http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1166
Fax: +44 (0)113 343 3654
Email: clare@prs.heacademy.ac.uk

AHRC Doctoral Award - Women's testimonies

This looks like an awesome opportunity for those who speak French!  I'd apply, if I could.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

Remembering and Recording the Rwanda Genocide: Women's Testimonies

Applications are invited from suitably qualified graduates for a fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award to be jointly supervised by Dr Nicki Hitchcott, Department of French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham, and Dr James Smith, Chief Executive of Aegis Trust.

The award holder will produce a doctoral study of the Rwandan women's testimonies of the 1994 genocide held at the archive currently being developed at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre (KGMC) in Rwanda. Under the terms of the Collaborative Doctoral Award, the student will spend the second year of registered study working in the Documentation Centre at KGMC where six months will be spent working as an archivist for Aegis Trust and six months working exclusively on the thesis.

About the Project

This unique project aims to provide an insight into an aspect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that is often overlooked. To date, almost no academic research has been carried out on the testimonies of Rwandan women genocide survivors. Even the best known written testimonial texts by Yolande Mukagasana and Esther Mujawayo have only very recently begun to receive some critical attention. This project will begin to address this critical gap by complementing and engaging with the small amount of existing work on the published texts and by investigating testimonial texts only available in Rwanda. While working at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre Documentation Centre, the award holder will study some of the oral testimonies that are currently being digitised there. These testimonies take the form of audio and video-taped recordings in English, French or Kinyarwanda that are being transcribed and translated into the other two languages. The student’s work for Aegis Trust in Rwanda will be to help index and catalogue the testimonies that have already been translated and transcribed.

Research Questions

While the research student will be expected to formulate his or her own precise thesis topic in consultation with the supervisory team, it is anticipated that the project will address the following broad based questions:

i) In what ways do these texts address the specific nature of women’s experiences of the 1994 genocide?

ii) What are the differences between written and recorded oral testimonial texts by Rwandan women and how are these significant?

iii) How have women’s testimonies been received in Rwanda?

iv) What contribution do women’s testimonies make to memory work in Rwanda?

v) How do women’s testimonial texts contribute to the promotion of peace and reconciliation between perpetrators and survivors in Rwanda?

Taking these questions into consideration, the thesis topic could move the project in a range of directions depending on his or her own research interests and experience. Examples of possible topics are: representations of women as perpetrators of genocide; representations of rape and sexual violence; the role of silence in women’s testimonies; maternity and genocide; a comparison of men’s and women’s testimonial voices.

Amount of Award

The AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award covers UK fees plus maintenance. In 2009-10 the maintenance level is £13,290 per annum. Collaborative Doctoral award holders also receive a further annual payment of £500 from the AHRC. The standard length of the award is three years of full time study.

The award will commence on 1 October 2010.

Eligibility

Applicants will normally hold, or be studying for, a Masters degree in a relevant subject such as French and Francophone Studies, Cultural Studies, Holocaust Studies, African Studies.  Although excellent applicants will be welcome from graduates in a range of relevant disciplines, those students who do not hold at least a first degree in French studies will need to demonstrate a minimum of degree-level competence in the French language. For this reason, part of the interview may be conducted in French.

All applicants must meet the AHRC’s academic criteria and residency requirements. Please see:

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/Guide%20to%20Student%20Eligibility.pdf

How to Apply

All applicants must complete a University of Nottingham postgraduate application form for PhD French and Francophone Studies. The form is available online at: http://pgapps.nottingham.ac.uk/

Applicants should also send a copy of their research proposal and an updated CV tonicki.hitchcott@nottingham.ac.uk. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide a sample of written work.

Application Deadline

The deadline for receipt of applications is 14 May 2010.

Interviews

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held on 1 June 2010. The successful candidate will be required to complete the relevant part of the student nomination form for forwarding to the AHRC by 29 July 2010. Nominations are subject to final approval by the AHRC.

Further Information

Applicants are welcome to make informal enquiries to Dr Nicki Hitchcott at nicki.hitchcott@nottingham.ac.uk.

About Aegis Trust: www.aegistrust.org

About the AHRC: www.ahrc.ac.uk

About the University of Nottingham: www.nottingham.ac.uk

Sue Ruszczynski
Postgraduate and Research Officer
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel: +44 (0)115 84 68317
Fax: +44 (0)115 84 68587
Email: sue.ruszczynski@nottingham.ac.uk
and
Secretary to the Board of Nottingham French Studies
http://www.nottinghamfrenchstudies.co.uk
Monday - Wednesday 9.00 am - 4.30 pm

Feminist post-grad, post-doc funding

If, like me, you're beginning to wonder what the future holds, you might be looking for funding in 2010. Finding funding to do any kind of a feminist-based, woman-based project can be incredibly difficult, particularly if you're doing philosophy in the UK.


I was excited to discover that the Leverhulme trust granted a Major Research Award to Madawi Al-Rasheed at KCL for the project 'A Masculine State: gender, religion and politics in Saudi Arabia. Check out the proposal here: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/Awards_in_Focus/Al-Rasheed/

I was also excited to see that the ARHC has awarded a Research Project Award to the project 'A History of Television for Women in Britain: 1947-1989 to three researches at Warwick. The project is detailed here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/researchnews/history_of_television_for_women_in_britain/

Both of these projects give me a glimmer of hope that it is possible to do studies about women in the current academic environment in the UK and to get them funded. Now, if you're scrambling for a post-doc position next year, you might just be out of luck. Most deadlines to apply have come to pass. There are, however, two that I know of coming up next week.

Post-doc

- King's College London's Arts and Humanities Dept has a number of Early Career Fellowships on offer. The deadline is 19 Feb 2009. Who can apply is up to the individual schools in the department (and some of the schools don't even mention they have the Leverhulme opportunity) so get in contact quickly.

- Oxford also has four Leverhulme fellowships on offer. One in Classics, One in History and two in English. The deadline is the 15th of Feb and you've got to go through a lot of hoops to meet that one, so hurry: http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/research/applying_from_outside_oxford/leverhulme_early_career_fellowships/leverhulme_ecf_application_process
The rule of thumb for post-doc funding is that you must plan to apply before November the year before you want to start.

Post-grad
As far as post-grad funding goes, the AHRC offers plenty of funding across the UK to UK residents and citizens. Also the OSRAS is great for international students.

- Warwick is a good place to go to do feminist-based studies and they have an easy to understand funding website. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/scholarship/funding/phd

- Middlesex is a good place to go if you want to do continental philosophy, though they give hardly any information about funding on their website. Best to get in touch: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/fees_funding/scholarships/index.aspx

- The Philosophy Department at the University of Liverpool is headed by Gillian Howie. She has been consistently involved in feminist philosophy and is a board member of SWIP UK. In other words, she's awesome. The University has a great Funding Search application that you can find here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/finance/scholarships.htm

- And finally, the Philosophy Department at the University of Dundee is also great for feminist philosophy. Johanna Oksala heads the department and lists feminist philosophy in her research interests. The school's funding page is listed here: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/pgguideapplicants.htm#fees