fellowship

Johan Huizinga Research Fellowship 2016 at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Feb 11

The Johan Huizinga Fonds / Rijksmuseum Fonds is offering the Johan Huizinga Research Fellowship 2016 for art and historical research in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Applicants of all nationalities are eligible to apply for this fellowship. The Johan Huizinga Postgraduate Fellowship is open to recent graduates (at the Master’s level), as well as doctoral and post-doctoral candidates.

As a national institute, the Rijksmuseum offers a representative overview of Dutch art and history from the middle ages onwards, and of major aspects of European and Asian art. The Rijksmuseum keeps, manages, conserves, restores, researches, prepares, collects, publishes and presents artistic and historical objects, both on its own premises and elsewhere. The focus of research should relate to the Rijksmuseum’s collection, and may encompass any of its varied holdings, including Netherlandish paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, photography and historical artefacts. Read More…

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland: Postgraduate Research Studentships. 2014

Apr 01

Trinity College Dublin is offering postgraduate research studentships for international students. These postgraduate studentships are available to new entrants as well as continuing students on the full-time Ph.D. register for entry in September 2014 and/or March 2015. The postgraduate studentships aim to support and develop gifted research students across all the Faculties, Schools and Departments (including all schools of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The studentships are awarded competitively, completely on academic merit.

Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral: Fellowships for Painting. 2014

Jun 12

Offering residential fellowships for international visual artists, the Künstlerhaus in Bad Ems, Germany, was founded in 1995 as a place of reflection, artistic production, discussion and meeting. It supports visual artists from all over the world by awarding a total of six artists-in-residence fellowships. For 2014, the residence fellowships will be awarded exclusively for painting. In future, each fellowship will be awarded for a different artistic genre. This offering, which is unique in Germany, is intended to enable deeper mutual creative cross-fertilisation among the resident artists. It will also lead to a more intensive specialist exchange of ideas with external artists, speakers, teachers, curators, etc.

Eligibility
Eligible to apply for a Balmoral fellowship are visual artists of any age from Germany and around the world. The focus of artistic work for the residential fellowships for 2014 must be on the medium of painting, whereby painting does not necessarily mean just ‘paint on canvas’. Formal and conceptual exploration of the limits and possibilities of the genre are also welcome.

The preconditions for applicants for the residential fellowships for visual artists are a completed course of study in art (M.F.A. or comparable) and three years of continuous artistic work after the conclusion of studies until the beginning of the fellowship. Applications are also possible for autodidacts distinguished by special artistic achievements, as documented by exhibitions and prizes. Knowledge of German or English is expected.

PhD position: Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden

Apr 05

Project: Urban infrastructure transformation from an STS perspective: Translating visions of Smart and Sustainable Cities.

Brief: Terms such as “Smart Cities”, “Smart Infrastructures” or “Eco-Cities” are increasingly employed to describe future visions of urban development and urban infrastructures and to design related policies or research programmes at national and European level. However, the question remains how such visions are actually translated into socio-material practices of infrastructural change. Do they give rise to new actor coalitions in cities? How are they used strategically by different actor groups? How do such ideas congeal into concrete projects of infrastructural change – at the level of technology, governance, institutions and practices? The aim of this PhD project is to explore these linkages and translation processes in a very small number of case studies of Swedish cities in a comparative perspective.

PhD position: Ethnography of Northern Landscapes. Norway 2013

Mar 12

3 year full time PhD position on the ethnography of Northern landscapes, at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and the Barents Institute in Kirkenes

The position is associated to the Future North project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council within its SAMKUL Program. Future North aims to map and document the current Arctic and Subarctic landscapes through experimental interactive modes of mapping.

The team includes 4 researchers from architecture, landscape, design, media, and social sciences, as well as 3 PhD fellows.

Founded on a conception of landscape as a shared human experience, the PhD project should aim to bring to the foreground the voices of Northern residents -indigenous, non-indigenous, and new-comers. Eligible PhD-proposals should aim to develop strategies for mapping the landscapes of aspirations, disappointments, and desires as the Arctic advances headlong into massive industrialization, exploration for more resources, and speculative planning.

PhD position at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, 2012-2013

Oct 29

PhD stipend position in Children and Media, Press or Game Industry (Science and Technology Studies) with the Mercator Research Group “Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge: Production and Transfer”, at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Area of study: Cultural Psychology and Anthropological Knowledge.

Eligibility: An M.A. in media studies, social anthropology, cultural psychology, social sciences, science and technology studies or related disciplines is required. Experience and interest in qualitative methods, preferably ethnography, is necessary. Applicants must be good writers and possess empirical as well as theoretical curiosity. She or he must have the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. Proficiency in German language is important.

Deadline: November 30, 2012.

Further information

InterMedia Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oslo, Norway

Oct 08

Two research fellowships are available at InterMedia, University of Oslo, for work within the research group CHANGE. CHANGE is an interdisciplinary research group that aims to push the boundaries of design and the use of digital environments in learning and communication. This research group explore design, use of and learning with technology-based environments in schools, museums and workplace settings.

The proposed starting date for the fellowship is spring 2013 onwards.

International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) at QUT, Australia. 2012

Sep 05

International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS) are prestigious scholarships, funded by the federal Government to encourage exceptional students to undertake research higher degrees in Australia.

Student type: Future international research students

Eligibility: Academic performance

Study type: Postgraduate research (PhD / Masters)

PhD studentship in Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK, 2012.

Jul 02

PhD studentship in Human Geography at the Department of Geography for the students of UK/EU and International students at the University of Leicester, UK, 2012. Internationalisation of British Higher Education and Social Media: Academic Identities, Transnational Socialisation, and Engaged Pedagogic Practice.

Study Subject(s): Human Geography Course Level: PhD

Eligibility: Applicants must have a first-class or high upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in geography or a social science discipline relevant to the project (such as media studies or education) and meet the University’s standard English language entry requirements.

Asia-Pacific Human Development PhD Fellowship, 2012

Jun 21

PhD Fellowship in the field of social science, liberal arts, or management for the applicants of developing countries, 2012 Asia- pacific

Study Subject(s):Embedding Environmental Concerns into Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth Course Level: PhD Scholarship Provider: UNDP Scholarship can be taken at: Asia-Pacific