Overview
This is a Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship, part of a new £4M investment to coincide with the inauguration of Professor Sir Martin Evans (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007) as Cardiff’s new President. All of the University Schools and Research Centres offering opportunities under the programme have demonstrated the real potential of the Scholarships to contribute to research excellence through significant, challenging and original PhD research projects and excellent PhD supervision and support. Other attractive features of the Scholarships include the presence of multiple President’s Scholars in each of the research areas and the guaranteed exposure of President’s Scholars to innovative technologies, theories, methodological approaches, and debates. More information on the President's Research Scholarships scheme is available here: www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents
Project Title: (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism
Project Description: Societies around the world are becoming increasingly diverse in ethnic, religious and cultural terms. (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism is a new, cutting-edge venture within the Humanities Schools at Cardiff University, bringing together academic staff and postgraduate students in humanities and social science disciplines to study and analyse how we are dealing with that diversity. (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism will consist of a research network that links together a series of workshops, seminars, and conferences, along with a number of PhD scholarships to support postgraduate work in this area.
The research undertaken by the President’s Research Scholarship students will explore the ways in which ‘multiculturalism’ was a cultural construct of particular historical circumstances and how the dangers of national dissolution on the one hand, and of discrimination against minorities on the other, may be confronted by its re-construction. Research will thereby contribute to public understanding, theory and policy formation, and creative production in areas, for example, of:
- The interactions between minority languages, multilingualism, lingua franca and cultural identity;
- The display and performance of religion, ethnic and cultural identities;
- Memories and minorities within Wales;
- Parallel legal systems and ethnocultural justice;
- The destruction of multicultural communities through ethnic or nationalist violence and other forms of cultural aggression;
-Cultural expression and cultural interaction in architecture and the built environment.
- The programme will train future researchers and academics with a varied set of intellectual tools for analysing cultural phenomena and the realities of contemporary Welsh, British and international cultures within a perspective of constant ‘re-constructing’.
Researchers will be prepared for academic careers, to which, in addition to their specialist knowledge, they will bring the intellectual and methodological synergies of the multidisciplinary environment, and add to human capital in a broad range of public-facing professions in which an active and constructive attitude to multicultural phenomena are an essential component.
The (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism venture draws on a pool of internationally-recognised and experienced supervisors, who have published widely in the different aspects of the field. Their activities and those of others involved with the project are establishing Cardiff as an international focus in relation to a range of areas of linguistic and cultural issues in multiculturalism.
Funding
These are Cardiff University President's Research Scholarships.
Two awards are available including full UK/EU tuition fees plus a doctoral stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£13,590 for 2010/11).
Three awards are available for UK/EU Fees only.
Number of Awards Available: 5 (three fees only: two fees plus stipend)
Eligibility
Academic Criteria: Applicants must have a First Class Honours degree, or a 2.1 plus a postgraduate Masters degree (or their equivalents) in a relevant subject.
Residency: These awards are open to students of any nationality. Non-EU overseas students will have to cover the difference between UK/EU and Overseas Fees themselves.
How to Apply
1. Applicants are advised to contact the named contact for the (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism President's Scholarship to discuss a potential project/supervisor (see below for details).
2. A formal University application must be submitted using the Online Application Service: www.cardiff.ac.uk/apply
3. Applicants should then apply for the Scholarship using the President's Research Scholarship Application Form available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/ugc/capacity/reconmulti/reconmultistudentships.html
Further Information
For more information contact Charlotte Whitehead:
Email: UniversityGraduateCollege@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: 029 2087 9408
For more information on the President's Research Scholarships, visit www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
This is a Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship, part of a new £4M investment to coincide with the inauguration of Professor Sir Martin Evans (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007) as Cardiff’s new President. All of the University Schools and Research Centres offering opportunities under the programme have demonstrated the real potential of the Scholarships to contribute to research excellence through significant, challenging and original PhD research projects and excellent PhD supervision and support. Other attractive features of the Scholarships include the presence of multiple President’s Scholars in each of the research areas and the guaranteed exposure of President’s Scholars to innovative technologies, theories, methodological approaches, and debates. More information on the President's Research Scholarships scheme is available here: www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents
Project Title: (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism
Project Description: Societies around the world are becoming increasingly diverse in ethnic, religious and cultural terms. (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism is a new, cutting-edge venture within the Humanities Schools at Cardiff University, bringing together academic staff and postgraduate students in humanities and social science disciplines to study and analyse how we are dealing with that diversity. (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism will consist of a research network that links together a series of workshops, seminars, and conferences, along with a number of PhD scholarships to support postgraduate work in this area.
The research undertaken by the President’s Research Scholarship students will explore the ways in which ‘multiculturalism’ was a cultural construct of particular historical circumstances and how the dangers of national dissolution on the one hand, and of discrimination against minorities on the other, may be confronted by its re-construction. Research will thereby contribute to public understanding, theory and policy formation, and creative production in areas, for example, of:
- The interactions between minority languages, multilingualism, lingua franca and cultural identity;
- The display and performance of religion, ethnic and cultural identities;
- Memories and minorities within Wales;
- Parallel legal systems and ethnocultural justice;
- The destruction of multicultural communities through ethnic or nationalist violence and other forms of cultural aggression;
-Cultural expression and cultural interaction in architecture and the built environment.
- The programme will train future researchers and academics with a varied set of intellectual tools for analysing cultural phenomena and the realities of contemporary Welsh, British and international cultures within a perspective of constant ‘re-constructing’.
Researchers will be prepared for academic careers, to which, in addition to their specialist knowledge, they will bring the intellectual and methodological synergies of the multidisciplinary environment, and add to human capital in a broad range of public-facing professions in which an active and constructive attitude to multicultural phenomena are an essential component.
The (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism venture draws on a pool of internationally-recognised and experienced supervisors, who have published widely in the different aspects of the field. Their activities and those of others involved with the project are establishing Cardiff as an international focus in relation to a range of areas of linguistic and cultural issues in multiculturalism.
Funding
These are Cardiff University President's Research Scholarships.
Two awards are available including full UK/EU tuition fees plus a doctoral stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£13,590 for 2010/11).
Three awards are available for UK/EU Fees only.
Number of Awards Available: 5 (three fees only: two fees plus stipend)
Eligibility
Academic Criteria: Applicants must have a First Class Honours degree, or a 2.1 plus a postgraduate Masters degree (or their equivalents) in a relevant subject.
Residency: These awards are open to students of any nationality. Non-EU overseas students will have to cover the difference between UK/EU and Overseas Fees themselves.
How to Apply
1. Applicants are advised to contact the named contact for the (Re)-Constructing Multiculturalism President's Scholarship to discuss a potential project/supervisor (see below for details).
2. A formal University application must be submitted using the Online Application Service: www.cardiff.ac.uk/apply
3. Applicants should then apply for the Scholarship using the President's Research Scholarship Application Form available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/ugc/capacity/reconmulti/reconmultistudentships.html
Further Information
For more information contact Charlotte Whitehead:
Email: UniversityGraduateCollege@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: 029 2087 9408
For more information on the President's Research Scholarships, visit www.cardiff.ac.uk/presidents
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
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