NUAcT PhD Studentship – France in the Long Nineteenth Century

Award Summary

The studentship will cover 100% of home tuition fees and comes with an annual stipend tracking UKRI funding rates (£21,805 FTE in 2026-27). Home and international applicants are welcome to apply. Successful international candidates will need to be able to fund the difference between home fees and international tuition fees (for more information see: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding)

Overview

The School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University invites applications for a funded doctoral studentship within the broad area of French studies in the long nineteenth century. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape their own research project related to this general topic. Interdisciplinary proposals are warmly encouraged, and applications are welcomed from students of Modern Languages, Musicology, History, Art History, Theatre Studies, English, Comparative Studies, or other related fields in the Humanities. The research project will be supervised by Dr Hannah Scott and a second co-supervisor (to be selected according to the particular focus of the project).

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

• Cultural history, broadly conceived
• Music, theatre, and entertainments
• Fashion, material culture, and their related industries
• Visual arts, visual culture, and their evolutions
• Literature and text
• Legacies of revolution and social change
• Understudied and marginalised histories

The successful candidate will be expected to focus primarily on long nineteenth-century France (1789-1914), but proposals with a broader chronological and/or geographical focus will also be considered.

Number of awards:1

Start date:The successful applicant is expected to start in September 2026.

Duration of award

3 years full time. Part-time working patterns are available, including to accommodate caring responsibilities, disabilities, or other requirements.

Sponsor

Newcastle University’s NUAcT (Newcastle University Academic Track) scheme and the Faculty of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences.

Supervisor:Dr Hannah Scott

Eligibility criteria

Applicants require a fluent level of English, a sound working knowledge of French, and will need to have achieved a Merit or higher in a Masters degree in a relevant field before commencing the project (or a 2:1 in an undergraduate degree and substantive professional experience in a field relevant to their proposed project).

If English is not your first language, you must have IELTS 7.0 overall (with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills).

Home and international students are welcome to apply; however, we regret that the studentship only covers fees at the home rate.

How to apply

For application information, please see https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=sml012

Contact Details

For informal inquiries, please contact Dr Hannah Scott – hannah.scott@newcastle.ac.uk

For practical queries about the submission process, please contact - pgadmissions@ncl.ac.uk