[Reader-list] London Funded PhD Positions

[stevphen shukaitis]

Greetings,

If anyone would be interested (or knows someone who is) in doing a  
funded PhD on some autonomist / feminist / postcolonial / queer  
theory influenced area, see the info below. The department website  
isn’t much to look at the moment, but things will look better as more  
interesting folks gather around.

In particular there are three positions that are open:

1. on Intellectual Property and Global Development (in collaboration  
with the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute  
[QMIPRI], Centre for Commercial Law Studies).

2. on Creative Enterprise and the Cultural Industries (in  
collaboration with the Department of Drama).

3. Critical organisation studies and/or Business and Management (see  
list of research areas below)


Those interested in using the business school’s funds to kick capital  
from inside can write to Peter Fleming (p.fleming at qmul.ac.uk) for  
more information.

Cheers
Stevphen




Queen Mary, University of London

PhD Studentships in Business and Management


The School of Business and Management is offering a PhD research  
studentship in each of the following areas:

Equality and Diversity - employment relations, global and  
organizational diversity management, labour force and sectoral  
studies, migration, professional and low paid work, career studies;
Critical Management and Political Economy –informed by feminism,  
Marxism, postcolonial theory, cultural and literary studies,  
linguistic and discursive analysis, international political economy;
Globalisation - trends in real wages and labour productivity,  
organization and social networks, knowledge and innovation, property  
rights and institutions, multinationals, global brands, development  
and monetary economics;
Management and Organisational History – company and sectoral  
histories, genealogical/archaeological approaches, hidden aspects of  
history such as forced labour/slavery, consumption and the heritage  
industry.

Applications should be clearly related to one of these areas and must  
include a proposal (3,000 words) outlining the intended area of  
research. Candidates should have a good honours degree in a relevant  
subject and preferably a Master’s degree. Successful applicants  
receive a stipend of approximately £14,300 pa plus tuition fees.  
Awards start in September 2007 and are tenable for up to three years.  
Closing date for applications: 1 May 2008.

Application forms are available from Peter Smith, Admissions Office,  
email admissions at qmul.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)20 7882 5533 or via the  
website: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/index.html

Candidates must apply as a regular PhD student with an indication  
that they intend to apply for the studentship. The deadline for  
applications are March 28 for the Creative Enterprise and the  
Cultural Industries (sorry about the short turn around time here, but  
this date was just set by the Department of Drama for internal  
reasons) and May 1st for the other studentships.


--
Stevphen Shukaitis
Autonomedia Editorial Collective
http://www.autonomedia.org
http://slash.interactivist.net

"Autonomy is not a fixed, essential state. Like gender, autonomy is  
created through its performance, by doing/becoming; it is a political  
practice. To become autonomous is to refuse authoritarian and  
compulsory cultures of separation and hierarchy through embodied  
practices of welcoming difference... Becoming autonomous is a  
political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary  
knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and replaces the social  
and economic hierarchies on which these depend with a politics of  
skill exchange, welcome, and collaboration. Freely sharing these with  
others creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that subverts  
the domination and hegemony of the master’s rule." - subRosa Collective