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Call for Papers: EUTOPIA Multilingualism & Diversity Student Conference.

9th July 2025, Online

As members of the EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community ‘Multilingualism and Diversity’, we invite students from all levels to share their research on multilingualism and diversity at an online multilingual conference.

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CfP Secrecy Studies: Enduring Themes, New Directions

Call for Chapter Proposals: Deadline 1 June 2025

The Secrecy Power and Ignorance Network (SPIN) are producing an edited volume (OUP) on the state of Secrecy Studies

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British Shakespeare Association Conference

25-28 June 2025, University of York

Registration is now open for this year’s BSA conference, ‘Practising Shakespeare’, which takes place at the University of York’s School of Arts and Creative Technologies.

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Call for Papers: The Evolution of Storytelling: Symbols, Myths, and Legends

6th June 2025, University of Leicester

The PGR Conference Team in the School of Arts, Media and Communication is pleased to invite you to a hybrid conference at the University of Leicester on 6 June 2025.

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Cultural Heritage Management and Conservation Conference

18th-19th September 2025, University of Nottingham

Keeping cultural heritage alive: An interdisciplinary approach to heritage management and conservation.

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Conference Coordinator Placement

Deadline Extended: 30th April, 12pm

An excellent opportunity for someone interested in event management, cultural engagement, and research dissemination.

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Midlands Historical Review Online Conference 2025

Friday 20th June 2025, Online

The Midlands Historical Review open-access postgraduate journal is pleased to announce our first conference which will be held online on Friday 20th June 2025.

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Prism | 26.01.25 | Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

26 Jan 2025, Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Music theatre performance for piano, electronics and immersive lighting.

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Image and Authority: how presentation affected leadership in the ancient world

30 May 2025, University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is hosting a one-day workshop organised by Tyler Broome (University of Birmingham) and Jurriaan Gouw (University of Warwick) to consider the relationship between the presentation of a leader and their capacity to lead.

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Amplify x New Voice Awards 2025

This might especially be of interest to any students that have their own YouTube channel and are looking for that extra recognition for their presenting skills on student radio or student TV.

The TV Festival, formally the Edinburgh TV Festival, are now accepting entries to the New Voice Awards! 

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Amateur Hour Writing Group

To support the Zine and find out more about the writing group check out the M4C blog

Amateur hour is a midlands based writing group that has been running since 2022. We are organised around the values of collaborative development and feedback and welcome members from a range of backgrounds.

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Call for Papers: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

17th January 2025 | University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

We invite papers of 15 minutes on the topic of play in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) in all its forms and in a global context.

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November events at The National Archives

November 11, 13:00-14:00 GMT and November 28, 11:00-12:15 GMT 

The National Archive has two exciting upcoming events in November.

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Young Archivist Opportunity with Serendipity

Deadline to apply- 26th July 2024

Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage is delivering a course over five days that provides an opportunity to learn from archives and heritage industry specialists.

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One-week residential Summer School for Arts and Humanities Undergraduates

What next? What does Arts and Humanities postgraduate research look like? One-week residential Summer School for Arts and Humanities Undergraduates

A one-week residential introduction to Research in Arts & Humanities for Undergraduate students from underrepresented groups.

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A FREE 1-DAY WORKSHOP ON ‘TRAINING FOR CAREERS’

For Postgraduate research (PGR) /PhD students who identify as women from racially minoritised backgrounds, who are registered as home students, and who have already completed their upgrade/transfer or are in the last stage of their doctoral studies.

This is free training workshop for women from Black, Asian and other minoritised ethnic groups currently in postgraduate research (PGR) studies and eligible for home fees on ‘training for careers’ at University of Reading on Tuesday 10th December 2024

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Generation Delta PGR Network Conference for Black, Asian. And Minority ethnic women

Wednesday 13th March 2024, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Creative Lounge, The Showroom Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX

Please join us to have the opportunity to network with 70+ Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women enrolled in doctoral studies at various English universities as well as senior academics.

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Ecological Networks Creative-Critical Approaches to the Environmental Humanities

24th April 2024, Edgbaston Campus, University of Birmingham

This doctoral workshop on the environmental humanities explores research creation and approaches to creative-critical networks via the combination of practice-based and scholarly methods.

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Immersion

Friday 26th April 2024, University of Nottingham

A day of dialogue to explore the readerly experience of ‘immersion in the world of literary texts

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AHRC ISP – International Placement Scheme 2024

The AHRC deadline is 12 March 2024, 4.00 pm UK time

Webinar on January 10th 2024, at 3 pm GMT

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Can Images Be Ekphrastic?, Wednesday December 6th 2 – 4pm, Lecture Room 5, Arts Building, University of Birmingham

The second seminar of Ekphrastic Encounters - the interdisciplinary and cross-institutional discussion/research forum on new forms and approaches to ekphrasis - will be led by Sophie Hatchwell, Associate Professor in Art History, University of Birmingham

Ekphrastic Encounters is a newly established interdisciplinary and cross-institutional discussion/research forum on new forms and approaches to ekphrasis at the University of Birmingham.

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Generation Delta Student Workshop, University of Leeds

5th December, University of Leeds

A one-day in-person workshop on retention/progression of home PGR students who identify as Black, Asian or minority ethnic women

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MHR-Call for Papers

http://www.midlandshistoricalreview.com/

The MHR is looking for new editors and new content!

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Generation Delta Annual Student Survey 2023

From 2022 to 2026 & led by Black, Asian minority ethnic female professors from six universities - Goldsmiths, Leeds, Plymouth, Reading, Sheffield, & Sunderland — the aim of Generation Delta is to lay the foundations for a long-term increase in the numbers

The survey closes on Monday 25th September 2023

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Midlands History- How to submit your research to an academic history journal

28th September 1-3pm, Online

Find out more about submitting an article to Midland History, and entering the annual Midland History Essay Prize competition. Ask the journal’s editorial board for advice and tips.

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Calls for Papers Digital BlackCentric Week – Digital Dialogues

Deadline: Friday 29 September 2023, 5.00pm

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British Library Doctoral Open Days 2023

1st September 2023, British Library, St Pancras London

Music, Sound and Vision Collections

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UKRI Policy Internships 2023/24

The UKRI Policy Internships scheme provides an opportunity for UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month placement at one of a selected group of influential policy organisations

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An Employment Opportunity with one of our Partners “Serendipity” – Collections Archivist

Initially six-months probationary. Closing Date 28th July 2023

Interviews: Week Commencing 14 August 2023

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Royal Institution: PhD Placements 2023

3-month PhD internships to gain experience of science communication and engagement

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V&A Doctoral Placement Scheme 2023/24

8 PhD Placement Projects - Deadline 23rd June

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TV PhD Scheme

EXTENDED to Friday 14th April 2023.

A talent scheme from the TV Foundation in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council

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Post-Doctoral Fellowship – Academy for Justice

Arizona State University

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Call for Papers: Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene

15th & 16th June 2023, University of Warwick

Our interdisciplinary conference, Un/Building the Future: The Country and the City in the Anthropocene, will explore the co-constitution of the urban and rural in the face of the Anthropocene.

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AHRC International Placement Scheme 2023

International fellowships for doctoral and early career researchers

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Turing Internship Network | Applications now open

Paid opportunities for students to apply their academic skills to real-world problems

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Call for Papers – Warwick Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice

Issue two - Virtual, physical or somewhere in between: Postgraduate pedagogies in the wake of the pandemic. This one-day workshop is planned for mid-August

The Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community are pleased to announce the CfP for the second issue of the JPPP - Virtual, physical or somewhere in between: Postgraduate pedagogies in the wake of the pandemic.

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“Transitions and Transformations: Black Researcher’s Journey” Survey

This survey has been created to ask about the experiences as Black postgraduate taught (PGT) and postgraduate research (PGR) students in relation to any challenges they may have faced at transition points in their academic journey

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The National Archives: Records Workshops

A series of workshops for PGRs to learn about key document collections held at The National Archives.