South Asian Dance as a Lens to Investigate Urgent Contemporary Narratives
Eligibility: UK/International (including EU) graduates with the required entry requirements
Duration: Full-Time – 4 years fixed term
Application deadline: 13 January 2025
Interview date: Will be confirmed to shortlisted candidates
Start date: September 2025
For further details contact: Karen Wood
Introduction
Coventry University is proud to be one of eight universities in the Midlands4Cities (M4C) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Doctoral Training Partnership.
The Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) will fund and train the next generation of highly skilled arts and humanities researchers through PhD scholarships.
Project details
This is a unique position to explore how complex contemporary narratives, such as the urgent climate crisis, are and can be negotiated through the language of South Asian dance forms. Akademi’s work successfully interrogates the climate crisis and its detrimental effect on the global south. This project is seeking to build on Akademi’s portfolio or explore other contemporary challenges proposed by the candidate. The climate crisis is and will continue to catastrophically affect the countries of the global south, where UK South Asian dance practitioners have ancestral connections and still practice and perform. South Asian dance forms, notably Kathak and Bharatanatyam, tell stories through gesture, rhythm, and facial expression in contrast to more abstract forms of Western dance such as contemporary dance.
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Funding
Tuition fees and bursary
Benefits
The successful candidate will receive comprehensive research training including technical, personal and professional skills. All researchers at Coventry University (from PhD to Professor) are part of the Doctoral and Researcher College, which provides support with high-quality training and career development activities.
Entry requirements
The applicant must have a Masters degree and abide by M4C eligibility criteria.
- A minimum of a 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline/subject area with a minimum 60% mark in the project element or equivalent with a minimum 60% overall module average.
PLUS
- The potential to engage in innovative research and to complete the PhD within 3.5 years.
- A minimum of English language proficiency (IELTS academic overall minimum score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component).
Additional Requirements
A dance and/or performance background is required.
How to apply
To find out more about the project, please contact Karen Wood.
All applications require full supporting documentation, a covering letter, plus a 2000-word supporting statement showing how the applicant’s expertise and interests are relevant to the project.
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