The IRC welcomes enquiries from prospective research students interested in pursuing MPhil/PhD study.

The IRC offers a broad range of expertise, including for example:

  • Popular Culture and Inclusion (Tinker)
  • Cultural Revival(s) (Pfeiffer)
  • Racism, hate speech (Strani)
  • Identities and belonging in the context of Migration (Strani, Fadel)
  • Multilingualism and Politics / Education (Strani, Liu)
  • Historic environment / heritage management (Baxter)

LINCS/SoSS SCHOLARSHIPS

An annual round of Scholarships are advertised by the School of Social Sciences / Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies. Information about these will be posted on the blog and twitter feed, as well as advertised by the University. 

SoSS PhD Scholarship – Apply Now! Deadline 8th September 2022

  • Project: Politics and community performances
  • Amount: £16,062 annual stipend for three years (increased each year in line with UKRI studentships), plus tuition fees waived and a research support allowance of £2,250
  • Start date: January 2023
  • DEADLINE: 8th September 2022

Politics and community performances.  Performances by community organisations often share concerns about community building and democratic participation with political science work on grassroots activism and activist public spaces (Kelleher, 2009; Chou, Gagnon and Pruitt, 2015). Many applied theatre practitioners understand their work as a form of political labour: facilitating people to engage creatively with their life situations as a means to empower them (Boal, 2005; Dolan, 2005). Yet how do politics intersect with community performances? How is community performance changing the way we think about and experience political participation? What is the role of community-based performances in building (alternative) political realities? We invite proposals that investigate community performances, in the broad sense, as citizenship practices or political statements, and how participatory/community performance intersects with democratic participation in the contemporary political landscape. Proposals could include an indication of arts interventions or case studies of projects or artistic groups, in Scotland or elsewhere.

The PhD will be supervised by Dr Katerina Strani (A.Strani@hw.ac.uk) and Dr Kerstin Pfeiffer (K.Pfeiffer@hw.ac.uk).  Applicants are strongly encouraged to get in touch with the supervisory team for an informal discussion prior to submitting their application.

Externally/Self-funded PhD Projects

We welcome enquiries from suitably qualified candidates funded from other sources who are interested in developing projects relevant to the Centre’s research programme.

For more information on how to apply, please refer to the following webpages:

For a list of our current PhD students and their projects, click here