Overview
Following the award of an extended programme of AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentships, the University of Exeter, in partnership with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site (WHS) Arts Programme, is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a doctoral studentship for three years commencing on 1 October 2011.
The overall theme of the extended programme is ‘The Jurassic Coast and the arts of community engagement: heritage, science, policy and practice on a dynamic coastline’. Of the three PhD projects identified under this broad theme, the second studentship will address ‘Stone exposures: photography, landscape change, and anticipatory adaptation’.
The overall aim of the extended programme is to produce an in-depth investigation of the geographies of arts practice and policy through a sustained collaboration with the Jurassic Coast WHS Arts Programme. The Jurassic Coast Team faces the challenge of communicating the nature and value of a changing coastline to visitors and residents. The adoption of a contemporary arts programme by the Jurassic Coast WHS to communicate and engage residents and visitors with the dynamics of this changing coastline offers a strong case study to address the critical role that arts practice can play in the public understanding of science and heritage management.
Stone exposures: photography, landscape change, and anticipatory adaptation
Supervisors: Dr Caitlin DeSilvey and Dr Nicola Thomas
Popular and professional landscape photography practices have an extended history on the Jurassic Coast, in recording and responding to a dynamic physical and cultural environment. The project brings together perspectives from cultural geography and visual culture studies to investigate these practices in situ. Specifically, the studentship will examine how photography works to foster understanding of (and appreciation for) landscape change on the coastline, where frequent storm events, landslides and rockfalls both alter and maintain familiar locations, and produce new rock exposures. An historical element of the project will investigate situated practices of landscape photography as they developed through the late 19th and 20th century. A related contemporary element will examine the influence of photographic artists, the work of amateur photographers, and techniques (e.g. remote sensing) that scientists use to monitor the coastline.
Research Questions
· What is the history of practices of landscape photography on the Jurassic Coast, and how were these practices situated in specific cultural, social, scientific and artistic networks?
· What is the relationship between popular, or vernacular, photographic documentation of landscape change and professional or institutional documentary agendas?
· Does photographic documentation of evolving landscape forms produce a visual narrative structure that fosters an adaptive, informed response to landscape evolution and geological process?
· How might photography be enrolled in community efforts to anticipate and imagine future ‘exposures’ and future change on the Jurassic Coast?
Methods
The project will begin with the assembly of historic photo-evidence of coastal change through research in the Jurassic Coast WHS archives and other regional collections. Archival work will be supplemented with work in communities along the coastline collecting images from private collections. Materials assembled in this phase of research may be exhibited during the Earth Festival (2012) in a re-photographic installation (comparing the evolution of specific sites over time).
Building on networks established during the Earth Festival, the student will carry out a programme of in-depth interviews with people involved in the production, circulation, and consumption of the historic and contemporary images.
Under the terms of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme, the successful applicant will benefit from opportunities to work closely with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site team and the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site Arts Programme. This will involve gaining first-hand experience of working within a heritage organisation on the delivery of an arts programme and participating with communities on the coastline. The experience of working with this collection will enhance the employment-related skills and training of the doctoral student. A key feature of this collaborative project is that the student will have the opportunity to communicate the outputs of the PhD research to non-academic audiences through, for example, exhibitions, web pages, leaflets and talks.
This project should interest applicants with backgrounds in diverse disciplines and subject areas, including, for example, cultural geography, historical geography, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, landscape photography, and visual culture studies. Applicants should hold a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours degree in a relevant discipline. It would normally be expected that candidates will hold a Masters degree in a relevant area by October 2011. The successful applicant will further benefit from working within a lively and expanding research environment within Geography (Streatham Campus, Exeter) at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter.
For eligible candidates the award will cover Home/EU tuition fees for three years and provide a maintenance award of at least £14,790 per year for three years in addition to travel costs for UK based fieldwork and meetings. The terms and conditions of the award will be those of the AHRC’s postgraduate studentships. Applicants must therefore have a relevant connection with the United Kingdom, usually through residence. For further information, or informal discussion about the position, please contact: Dr Caitlin DeSilvey, c.o.desilvey@exeter.ac.uk, +44 (0)1326 254 161.
How to apply
In order to apply you will need to complete an online web form where you must submit some personal details and upload a full CV, covering letter, an example of scholarly work up to 4,000 words in length (such as a coursework essay or part of a dissertation; please note that this should be uploaded in the ‘research proposal’ section of the online web form) and two references (if your referees prefer, they can email the reference direct to cles-studentships@exeter.ac.uk).
Your covering letter should outline your academic interests, prior research experience and reasons for wishing to undertake this project.
If you have any general enquiries about the application process please email cles-studentships@exeter.ac.uk or phone +44(0)1392 725150/723706/723310.
The closing date for applications is midnight Monday 2nd May 2011. Candidates for interview will be notified by Tuesday 17th May. Interviews are likely to be held on 31st May 2011.
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
Following the award of an extended programme of AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentships, the University of Exeter, in partnership with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site (WHS) Arts Programme, is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified applicant for a doctoral studentship for three years commencing on 1 October 2011.
The overall theme of the extended programme is ‘The Jurassic Coast and the arts of community engagement: heritage, science, policy and practice on a dynamic coastline’. Of the three PhD projects identified under this broad theme, the second studentship will address ‘Stone exposures: photography, landscape change, and anticipatory adaptation’.
The overall aim of the extended programme is to produce an in-depth investigation of the geographies of arts practice and policy through a sustained collaboration with the Jurassic Coast WHS Arts Programme. The Jurassic Coast Team faces the challenge of communicating the nature and value of a changing coastline to visitors and residents. The adoption of a contemporary arts programme by the Jurassic Coast WHS to communicate and engage residents and visitors with the dynamics of this changing coastline offers a strong case study to address the critical role that arts practice can play in the public understanding of science and heritage management.
Stone exposures: photography, landscape change, and anticipatory adaptation
Supervisors: Dr Caitlin DeSilvey and Dr Nicola Thomas
Popular and professional landscape photography practices have an extended history on the Jurassic Coast, in recording and responding to a dynamic physical and cultural environment. The project brings together perspectives from cultural geography and visual culture studies to investigate these practices in situ. Specifically, the studentship will examine how photography works to foster understanding of (and appreciation for) landscape change on the coastline, where frequent storm events, landslides and rockfalls both alter and maintain familiar locations, and produce new rock exposures. An historical element of the project will investigate situated practices of landscape photography as they developed through the late 19th and 20th century. A related contemporary element will examine the influence of photographic artists, the work of amateur photographers, and techniques (e.g. remote sensing) that scientists use to monitor the coastline.
Research Questions
· What is the history of practices of landscape photography on the Jurassic Coast, and how were these practices situated in specific cultural, social, scientific and artistic networks?
· What is the relationship between popular, or vernacular, photographic documentation of landscape change and professional or institutional documentary agendas?
· Does photographic documentation of evolving landscape forms produce a visual narrative structure that fosters an adaptive, informed response to landscape evolution and geological process?
· How might photography be enrolled in community efforts to anticipate and imagine future ‘exposures’ and future change on the Jurassic Coast?
Methods
The project will begin with the assembly of historic photo-evidence of coastal change through research in the Jurassic Coast WHS archives and other regional collections. Archival work will be supplemented with work in communities along the coastline collecting images from private collections. Materials assembled in this phase of research may be exhibited during the Earth Festival (2012) in a re-photographic installation (comparing the evolution of specific sites over time).
Building on networks established during the Earth Festival, the student will carry out a programme of in-depth interviews with people involved in the production, circulation, and consumption of the historic and contemporary images.
Under the terms of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme, the successful applicant will benefit from opportunities to work closely with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site team and the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site Arts Programme. This will involve gaining first-hand experience of working within a heritage organisation on the delivery of an arts programme and participating with communities on the coastline. The experience of working with this collection will enhance the employment-related skills and training of the doctoral student. A key feature of this collaborative project is that the student will have the opportunity to communicate the outputs of the PhD research to non-academic audiences through, for example, exhibitions, web pages, leaflets and talks.
This project should interest applicants with backgrounds in diverse disciplines and subject areas, including, for example, cultural geography, historical geography, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, landscape photography, and visual culture studies. Applicants should hold a First Class or Upper Second Class Honours degree in a relevant discipline. It would normally be expected that candidates will hold a Masters degree in a relevant area by October 2011. The successful applicant will further benefit from working within a lively and expanding research environment within Geography (Streatham Campus, Exeter) at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter.
For eligible candidates the award will cover Home/EU tuition fees for three years and provide a maintenance award of at least £14,790 per year for three years in addition to travel costs for UK based fieldwork and meetings. The terms and conditions of the award will be those of the AHRC’s postgraduate studentships. Applicants must therefore have a relevant connection with the United Kingdom, usually through residence. For further information, or informal discussion about the position, please contact: Dr Caitlin DeSilvey, c.o.desilvey@exeter.ac.uk, +44 (0)1326 254 161.
How to apply
In order to apply you will need to complete an online web form where you must submit some personal details and upload a full CV, covering letter, an example of scholarly work up to 4,000 words in length (such as a coursework essay or part of a dissertation; please note that this should be uploaded in the ‘research proposal’ section of the online web form) and two references (if your referees prefer, they can email the reference direct to cles-studentships@exeter.ac.uk).
Your covering letter should outline your academic interests, prior research experience and reasons for wishing to undertake this project.
If you have any general enquiries about the application process please email cles-studentships@exeter.ac.uk or phone +44(0)1392 725150/723706/723310.
The closing date for applications is midnight Monday 2nd May 2011. Candidates for interview will be notified by Tuesday 17th May. Interviews are likely to be held on 31st May 2011.
Please quote Scholarization.blogspot.com on your application when applying for this scholarship
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