AHRC funding for UK/EU arts & humanities research students at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the arts and humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between De Montfort University and the universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Leicester, Birmingham and Birmingham City, provides research candidates with cross-institutional mentoring, expert supervision including cross-institutional supervision where appropriate, subject-specific and generic training, and professional support in preparing for a career.
The Architecture research group at De Monftort is inviting applications from students whose research interests include:
· Urban history and theory from the 19th century to the present
· Architectural history and theory from the 17th century to the present
· Psychoanalytic aesthetic theory
· Evolutionary and biologically inspired design and their application to architecture
· Generative techniques in architectural design
· Self-organisation and emergence - application to design/architecture
· Systems thinking and cybernetics
· Semiotics and relevance to architecture and computational design
· Computer aided creativity and computational creativity
· Craft of digital fabrication and the implication of drawing and making in Architectural design and representation
· Housing design for sustainable communities
The deadline for AHRC funding applications is 9 January 2014, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and have provided two references to a university within the DTP. For full details of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit http://www.midlands3cities.ac.uk or contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .