An opportunity has arisen for a fully funded Research Studentship leading to the qualification of PhD based on research into the theory and practice of cultural policy. This research, focused on culture-led regeneration on Merseyside in the context of Liverpool as European Capital of Culture 2008 and associated with the research programme Impacts 08, will develop as an ethnographic study into the definition of creative industries. The studentship will seek to uncover new and unique ways of defining what it is to be a creative industries entrepreneur and how this perception supports or contradicts policy oriented definitions of the sector, what happens within the sector and the importance of the sector to locality. 

Funding from the AHRC/ESRC Impact Fellowship initiative, will cover students fees plus a maintenance grant to the value of £12,600 per annum.  

The successful candidate will join a growing team of researchers working in this field based in the University and currently examining many of the wider impacts from the 2008 European Capital of Culture designation.  Further information on the Impacts 08 work can be seen at: www.impacts08.net

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Alan Southern:

Telephone +44(0)151 795 3820 or Email Alan.Southern@liverpool.ac.uk

Applicants are able to download further particulars from www.impacts08.net where details about the application procedure are also available.

Closing Date: 21 September 2007

For full details, or to request an application pack, visit www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/

Tel 0151 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone)

Please quote Job Ref in all enquiries.

To reply to this email contact Alan.Southern@liverpool.ac.uk