Overview
Cardiff University - Cardiff Humanities Research Institute
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.
For more details please visit http://www.cf.ac.uk/chri/ReconMultiScholarships
Funding and Eligibility
Two awards are available including full UK/EU tuition fees plus a doctoral stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£13,290 p.a. for 2009/10, updated each year): two awards are available for UK/EU Fees only.
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
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).
A formal University application must be submitted using the Online Application Service: www.cardiff.ac.uk/apply
Applicants should then apply for the Scholarship using the President's Research Scholarship Application Form available here: http://www.cf.ac.uk/chri/ReconMultiScholarships
For more information contact Charlotte Whitehead:
Email: gradschools@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: 02920-879408 02920-879408
Application Deadline: 5th March 2010
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
Cardiff University - Cardiff Humanities Research Institute
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.
For more details please visit http://www.cf.ac.uk/chri/ReconMultiScholarships
Funding and Eligibility
Two awards are available including full UK/EU tuition fees plus a doctoral stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£13,290 p.a. for 2009/10, updated each year): two awards are available for UK/EU Fees only.
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
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).
A formal University application must be submitted using the Online Application Service: www.cardiff.ac.uk/apply
Applicants should then apply for the Scholarship using the President's Research Scholarship Application Form available here: http://www.cf.ac.uk/chri/ReconMultiScholarships
For more information contact Charlotte Whitehead:
Email: gradschools@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: 02920-879408 02920-879408
Application Deadline: 5th March 2010
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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