{"id":4001,"date":"2021-12-20T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2021-12-20T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:45:09","slug":"new-scholarships-available-for-students-working-on-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/12\/20\/new-scholarships-available-for-students-working-on-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"New scholarships available for students working on migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a public-facing civic-oriented institution, Kent believes that universities \u2013 and our institution in particular \u2013 can play a key role as leaders of intellectual debates and as researchers around migration and movement. For many years, migration and movement has been a key area of research and expertise at the University of Kent;<strong> we are therefore delighted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/migration-and-movement\">invite applications for two new PhD scholarships<\/a>, opening new pathways into this important field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The winners of this scholarship will be part of a vibrant community of scholars and practitioners working in this field across disciplines from literature to sociology and from politics to drama. One of the two scholarships\u00a0is\u00a0named\u00a0in honour of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/abdulrazakgurnah\">Emeritus\u00a0Professor\u00a0Abdulrazak\u00a0Gurnah<\/a>, winner of the 2021\u00a0Nobel Prize\u00a0in\u00a0Literature\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0former\u00a0student and member\u00a0of staff in the School of English\u00a0at the\u00a0University of Kent, whose work\u00a0and personal life\u00a0have\u00a0highlighted the\u00a0condition\u00a0of\u00a0migrants and\u00a0refugees.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The call is open to home and overseas candidates interested in pursuing a PhD programme in any discipline at the University\u00a0of Kent\u00a0on a research project directly linked to\u00a0the\u00a0themes of\u00a0migration and movement.\u00a0Interdisciplinary projects\u00a0are warmly encouraged, but applications that fall within a single discipline are also\u00a0welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/migration-and-movement\">Click here to learn more about the application process and criteria.<\/a> We particularly welcome applications from candidates from minority backgrounds (as protected by the UK Equality Act 2010) and people with lived experience of migration and\/or forced displacement as they are under-represented at this level in this area.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a public-facing civic-oriented institution, Kent believes that universities \u2013 and our institution in particular \u2013 can play a key role as leaders of intellectual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/12\/20\/new-scholarships-available-for-students-working-on-migration\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77087,"featured_media":3917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}