Russian Studies at Durham University, UK (https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/modern-languages-cultures/undergraduate-study/language-areas/russian-studies/) invites applications for PhD studentships through the AHRC-funded Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership. We welcome applications from outstanding candidates who can demonstrate evidence of academic excellence, as well as evidence of sufficient research skills to undertake the project.
The Northern Bridge Consortium offers fully funded doctoral studentships to outstanding applicants across the full range of arts and humanities subjects and creative practice disciplines. International students as well as UK students are eligible to apply. (For further details on eligibility criteria, see http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/).
Russian Studies at Durham features regularly among the leading Russian departments in the UK league tables and has been ranked most recently 3rd in the Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. There are currently five members of academic staff in Russian Studies at Durham actively engaged in research and publication in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, part of an overall complement of over fifty research active staff. Individual research expertise in Russian Studies ranges from eighteenth century to the contemporary period and includes, among other subject areas, literature, cultural studies, Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European visual art and film, Russian and Soviet music, critical theory, gender studies, material culture, dress studies, history of science, human-animal relations, with colleagues often working from a comparative, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspective (for further details, see https://www.durham.ac.uk/…/modern…/about-us/our-people/).
Durham University and Northern Bridge Consortium particularly welcome proposals that are compliant with their commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. For more information about the scheme and detailed guidance notes, see http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk .
Other doctoral studentships offered at Durham University include the Barker Doctoral Studentships in European Modern Languages. You can find further information on these schemes at this link: https://www.durham.ac.uk/…/postgraduate-study/funding/
Interested applicants should contact our subject area lead, Dr Dušan Radunovi? (dusan.radunovic@durham.ac.uk) for consultation about further details about the process.