The Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust 2010-2011
The School of Literature and Creative Writing is pleased to offer a PhD scholarship funded by the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust for a Research Student to investigate developments in the online and digital production and dissemination of new writing. Applications are invited for practice-based or theory-based research projects.
The scholarship will include a fee waiver of £3466 and a contribution of living costs of £5,000 per year, over three years. You will need to demonstrate a strong performance in your first degree as well as a good MA qualification in a relevant subject. We will, however, consider applicants without an MA if they can demonstrate equivalent practical and/or professional experience. Application forms are available from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, PGR office, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ (Tel: 01603 592546; email: pgr.hum@uea.ac.uk). Applications should be sent to the PGR office by Friday, 30th July, 2010. Please address envelopes to ‘The Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust Scholarship’.
UEA is renowned internationally as a centre of excellence in the teaching of Creative Writing. The MA programme, the first of its kind in the country, was founded in 1970 to provide an opportunity for new writers to develop their work within a community of other writers and within a university committed to an engagement with contemporary culture. These themes of innovation, collaboration and the contemporary have remained central to the development of UEA Creative Writing, which now includes MA strands in Prose Fiction, Poetry, Scriptwriting and Lifewriting, as well as a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing.
The School is now seeking to develop a digital and collaborative platform for the production, discussion and publication of its students’ writing, and this scholarship will be awarded on the basis that you will be actively involved in the management and development of this initiative.