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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 39.8pt 6pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">AHRC<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Midlands3Cities funding for </span></b></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 39.8pt 6pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt">The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will
be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research
students in the Arts and Humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between
Nottingham Trent, Nottingham, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Leicester and De
Montfort universities, provides research candidates with cross-institutional
mentoring, expert supervision, including cross-institutional supervision where
appropriate, subject specific and generic training, and professional support in
preparing for a career.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 39.8pt 0.0001pt 14.2pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Communication,
Culture, and Media (CCM)</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">
at Nottingham Trent University is inviting applications from students whose
research interests include all areas of communication and media. In particular
we are looking for applications which address the following topics: </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Digital media and political economy </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Social Theory, Critical Theory, Marxian Theory</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Digital commons and commoning</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Peer production</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Sharing in the digital age</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Activism and Hacktivism</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Open access publishing</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Surveillance and encryption</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Digital currencies</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Copyright and intellectual property</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 39.8pt 0.0001pt 14.2pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">deadline for AHRC M3C funding applications is 14<sup>th</sup> January
2015</b>, by which time students must have applied for a place to study and
have provided two references to a university within the DTP. For full details
of eligibility, funding and research supervision areas, please visit </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/midlands-3-cities/index.aspx#_blank"></span><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.nottingham.ac.uk" claiming to be</b></font> <span style="font-size:11pt">www.midlands3cities.ac.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt"> or contact </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk"></span><span style="font-size:11pt">enquiries@midlands3cities.ac.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt">. </span></p>
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