Anyone interested in a PhD on community/alternative/activist/social media or related topics in Cardiff? Research facilities here include, among others, a 'Centre for Community Journalism' and a 'Research Group Digital Media and Society'. --- The School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University (JOMEC) has one scholarship available for one exceptional international PhD student to undertake PhD studies in any area of Journalism, Media and/or Cultural Studies. (NB: this competition is not open to UK or EU students, only international applicants). The amount of the scholarship is: 1. Coverage of full international fees (currently £13,500 p.a.) for three years; 2. An annual stipend (£10,860 p.a.) for three years. In addition, all PhD students in JOMEC are able to apply for paid teaching work on our BA and MA degrees, as well as other paid work that becomes available. The deadline for this scholarship competition is Friday 7th November 2014. To meet this deadline you need to make sure you have submitted a full formal application to the University for PhD study no later than 7th November. Instructions on how to do this are here: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/postgraduate/applying.html If you plan to apply, you should alert the two people who you want to write your references. We will need their references by this date too. Also, you should provide scans of your degree and other certificates, plus, of course, a full research proposal. All of these must be submitted by 7th November. A panel will assess scholarship applications in the 2nd half of November, and we will inform the successful applicant by the very end of November. The successful applicant must be ready to start their PhD studies in January 2015. We cannot defer the award, so if the applicant cannot start at this time, they will lose the award. To be eligible for the award, the University must agree that you fulfil the entrance requirements for the PhD programme. Therefore, your application will be assessed within JOMEC and passed on to the University Registry. If the University does not agree to offer you a place, you cannot be considered further for the scholarship. However, if you are offered a place on the PhD programme but are subsequently unsuccessful in the scholarship competition, you can still take up your place if you find alternative means to pay the fees and support yourself. If you hope to be successful in your application, you should make sure that your proposal is something we are likely to be able to supervise here. Ideally, you could suggest a supervisor from JOMEC. Feel free to contact individual lecturers and professors within JOMEC: they will all be happy to discuss and advise you on your proposed project. In addition, you can contact the director of the PhD programme, Dr Paul Bowman ([log in to unmask])