<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: start;"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Duckie.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: start;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Duckie in the Community: Performance, Audience and Social Engagement</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Collaborative Doctoral Award offers an exciting opportunity to pursue a fully funded PhD with a leading international centre for research in socially engaged performance with one of London’s most innovative performance companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: start;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Project Description<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US">This project focuses on the ‘social turn’ in contemporary performance in the wake of the proliferation of participatory arts practices in the 1990s, focused on a case study of Duckie, a London-based performance collective. Created in 1995 in the context of emergent queer movements, Duckie produce interactive audience experiences that combine popular forms – music, comedy, cabaret and clubbing – with experimental performance. </span>Duckie has also collaborated with community arts organisations and groups and run projects using non-institutionalised art therapy. <span lang="EN-US">Duckie’s interactive participatory performance projects are increasingly </span><span lang="EN-US">driven by a desire to engage audiences in addition to its core lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) constituency, especially with respect to socially marginalised groups (e.g. older working class people; people with alcohol and drug addictions; people who are homeless or vulnerably housed).</span> The diversity of Duckie’s work in terms of form and audience affords an excellent opportunity to investigate socially engaged performance practices in relation to t<span lang="EN-US">he social and cultural contexts in which it is produced (e.g. LGBTQ politics and histories, poverty, addiction, aging, geography), its impact on audiences, and trends in applied, community and socially engaged performance, and criticism.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The successful applicant will be supervised by Catherine Silverstone at Queen Mary and Simon Casson and Dicky Eton at Duckie.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The award will commence on or around <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">22 September 2014</a>.<b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Eligibility</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All applicants should meet the AHRC's academic criteria and residency requirements. Please see the AHRC’s Training Grant Funding Guide and the Research Councils UK’s Conditions of Research Council Training Grants</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Training%20Grant%20Funding%20Guide%202014-15.pdf">http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Training%20Grant%20Funding%20Guide%202014-15.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsTrainingGrants.pdf">http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/documents/TermsConditionsTrainingGrants.pdf</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Applicants should normally hold, or be studying for, a Master's degree in Drama, Theatre or Performance Studies or a cognate discipline (e.g. Cultural Studies). Please see below for the Candidate Profile.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>How to Apply</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To make an application please complete the <a href="http://www.qmul.ac.uk/courses/courses.php?course_id=539&dept_id=29&pgcourses=1&course_level=1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">College’s online postgraduate application form</span></a> (<a href="http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgrcoursefinder/index.html">www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgrcoursefinder/index.html</a> -- please click the link for Drama to access the form). You will need to upload your <i>CV</i>, degree certificates, transcripts, TOFEL/IELTS scores (if applicable), statement of purpose, research proposal and writing sample (see further particulars for more details). You will also need to arrange for two references to be submitted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For further particulars about the project and the requirements of the statement of purpose, proposal and writing sample, and advice on selecting referees and submitting references, please see:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/drama/postgraduate/phd/funding/index.html" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/drama/postgraduate/phd/funding/index.html</font></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Candidate Profile<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Department Drama is committed to appointing the very best candidates to our PhD programme. To apply you should have a good first degree (BA Honours or equivalent), at first class standard (or upper second class with clear evidence of 1st class work), and/or a Masters qualification (at Merit or above) in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies or a cognate discipline. The criteria for the appointment of the student will be the strength of (a) the candidate's academic profile and relevant professional experience, (b) the quality of the proposal, statement of purpose and writing sample, (c) the fit between the candidate's profile, proposal and the project brief, and (d) the ability of the student to complete the project on time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Application Deadline</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The deadline for receipt of applications is <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5">5 pm, Wednesday 30 April 2014</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Interviews</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is anticipated that interviews will be held <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">on Tuesday 20 May</a> or <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">Wednesday 21 May 2014</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Further Information</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Applicants seeking further information about the studentship are invited to contact Dr Catherine Silverstone at <a href="mailto:c.silverstone@qmul.ac.uk">c.silverstone@qmul.ac.uk</a>. Applicants who would like further information about postgraduate research in Drama more generally are invited to contact Drama’s Director of Graduate Studies, Dr Martin Welton (<a href="mailto:m.welton@qmul.ac.uk">m.welton@qmul.ac.uk</a>).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About the Department of Drama: <a href="http://www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/drama/index.html">www.sed.qmul.ac.uk/drama/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About Queen Mary, University of London: <a href="http://www.qmul.ac.uk/">www.qmul.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About Duckie: <a href="http://duckie.co.uk/">http://duckie.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About the Arts and Humanities Research Council: <a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/">www.ahrc.ac.uk</a> </span><div><div style="text-indent: 24px;">***</div><div style="text-indent: 24px;">Please note that I am on personal leave from Western until June 2014.</div></div></body></html>