Postgraduate Research with CAMC

What We Offer

CAMC is a truly exceptional environment where a team of world-leading researchers, artists and creative practitioners from a variety of fields are engaged with each other’s work and are committed to nurturing our early career researchers and PGRs. CAMC welcomes postgraduate candidates  to our renowned research ecology, where they explore rich sites of innovation and learning, guided by experts in their fields.

Main Areas of Supervision:

• Art History
• Corpus Linguistics
• Cultural History
• Curatorial Studies
• English Literature and Creative Writing
• Memory Studies
• Materiality and Material Culture
• Practice Research in the Arts and the Curatorial

Facilities

CAMC shares the refurbished ICE Building with the Centre for Dance Research, Centre for Postdigital Cultures and Centre for Creative Economies; a location that encourages exchanges between staff and students in these three Arts and Humanities research centres. The building has an ample supply meeting and conference rooms, lounges and social spaces, and two dedicated PGR rooms with workstations. The Lanchester Gallery supports our practice researchers. Beyond the university, partnership with the Herbert Art Gallery encourages exploration of visual arts and historical investigation of the Coventry archives held by the gallery.

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: M4C-Funded PhD Opportunities at Coventry University

The Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University extends an invitation for expressions of interest from candidates wishing to apply for a funded PhD studentship supported by the AHRC Midlands 4 Cities (M4C) consortium. These prestigious, competitive studentships offer a fee waiver and a maintenance grant for 3.5 years (full time) or 7 years (part time), as well as access to unparalleled training, additional funding, and networking.

Our aim is to work with a small number of applicants to help them prepare to submit an application to the M4C for a January 2025 deadline. There are therefore no guarantees, but successful applicants would start PhD study in September 2025.

We welcome expressions of interest in any of the fields represented by CAMC:

• Cultural Memory: Research within the cultural memory strand is concerned with the importance and meanings of sites, monuments, museums, art-works, objects, images and texts in shaping histories and identities of memory and belonging across cultures, with a core focus on transnational memory contexts.
• Wellbeing and the Arts: This strand draws together researchers from various disciplines (including art, design, photography, literature and history) who are interested in the contribution creative subjects can make to the understanding and promotion of health, wellbeing and inclusion.
• Critical Practices: The Critical Practices strand brings together practitioner-researchers in the fields of visual arts, the curatorial, and performance arts interested in working across disciplines and exploring innovative and speculative interdisciplinary enquiries that address and intervene in the world around us.

Eligibility:

• Open to UK and International applicants
• Applicants must hold a Masters qualification (or be nearing completion), or relevant professional experience

We advise that candidates check carefully the detailed guidance to ensure they are eligible:

• M4C Guidance is available
• Coventry University eligibility criteria are available.

All expressions of interest should be addressed to m4c.icc@coventry.ac.uk, with the subject line ‘CAMC EoI’. In your email, please include:

• A summary of your academic background and CV;
• A summary of your research interests and proposed PhD project, including:
• Your research questions and a brief explanation of their importance and significance;
• A brief summary of the relevant literature that has informed your proposed project;
• The methodology you might use, and why.
• An indication of potential supervisor(s). A list of academic specialists in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities.

Deadline for Expressions of Interest: Monday 30th September 2024

Deadline for Submission of Applications: January 2025 (Exact date TBC)

Venice Fellowships Programme

In 2017, CAMC inaugurated our British Council Venice Fellowships. Since that date, the centre, in partnership with the British Council, has launched ten Venice Fellowships by annual competitive call. We offer outstanding international research and mobility opportunities for our PhD and Early-Career Researchers to spend up to a month in Venice at the Biennale stewarding at the world’s number one annual showcase of visual arts, cultures and architecture, and to pursue an individual research project with follow-up show-casing at Coventry University, The British Council and with leading partners.

Image credit: taken from Graham Chorlton, "Island"