Poems about Translation 29: from 'Poets Online'

It's been a while since I've published anything in the long-running, meandering 'Poems About Translation' series, which seeks to admire and publicise observations on translation through the medium of poetry. Number 29 is in fact more than one poem; it's this collection of poems inspired by the concept of translation on the 'Poets Online' website. My favourite is 'Deaf and Dumb' by poet and ASL interpreter Paul Hostovsky. Here is a short extract...

...but go read the whole poem. It can also be found, with two other poems on the theme of Deafness and language, here.

PhD opportunity in Translation Studies with an industry emphasis, University of Manchester

A very interesting-looking doctoral opportunity is available at the University of Manchester. Copying here to signal-boost!

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in Translation Studies: Humans in the Loop

The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, supported by the North-West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), invites applications from exceptional candidates for a fully funded collaborative PhD studentship, to start in September 2020 at the University of Manchester, UK.

The Humans in the Loop project will investigate the impact of the quality of source texts on the work of post-editors or translators, in collaboration with our partner, TranslateMedia. Specialising in the translation of advertising and marketing materials, TranslateMedia is implementing post-editing of machine translation as part of its professional translation workflow. This research will examine TranslateMedia’s encounters with poorly written and non-canonical source texts, to understand how specific features of source texts can affect the quality of MT output, post-editing practices and translator productivity. The basic parameters of the research are set but specific details will be decided jointly by the student, supervisor and partner. TranslateMedia will provide access to a range of datasets, resources and personnel. This research will make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the conditions in which professional translation takes place and the changing nature of translation practice as MT technology is further integrated into workflows.

The successful candidate will join a dynamic community of doctoral researchers at a world-leading translation studies research centre. They will benefit from expert supervision, a wide range of research training opportunities, and access to additional funds for fieldwork, research expenses, conferences, etc.

Qualifications

Applicants should have:

• A First Class Honours degree (or equivalent) and a Masters level qualification with Distinction (completed or in progress), in translation studies or a cognate discipline

• Native or near-native competence in English and at least one of the following languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch 

• Prior experience of using translation technologies

• Some prior professional experience in language services (desirable).

Funding and eligibility

A full award comprises the UK/EU tuition fee and a maintenance stipend of approximately £15,000 per year, for 3.5 years of full-time study.

Candidates must have a relevant connection with the UK to qualify for a full AHRC award, i.e. they must have been ordinarily resident in the UK throughout the three-year period preceding the date of application, or have settled status in the UK. Non-EU candidates who have not been ordinarily resident in the UK for the last three years, or who were resident wholly or mainly for the purposes of education, are not eligible to apply.

Candidates from EU countries are eligible for full awards if they have been resident in the UK, for education or other purposes, for at least three years prior to the start of their programme. Candidates from EU countries who have not resided in the UK for three years prior to the start of their programme will normally be eligible for a fees-only award.

Applications

Please submit a CV, undergraduate and Masters degree transcripts, and a 1,500-word PhD proposal related to the research topic to maeve.olohan@manchester.ac.uk by 17:00 GMT on Monday 17 February 2020. Interviews will take place at the end of February and the successful candidate’s nomination will be confirmed by 13 March.

The successful candidate will then be required to submit an online application for a place on the PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies programme by 31 March, with the support of the supervisors – see http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/applying/

for details.

Contact for further information

Dr Maeve Olohan, maeve.olohan [at] manchester.ac.uk.

This announcement can also be accessed at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BXZ169/phd-studentship-ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-award-in-translation-studies-humans-in-the-loop

Films about industrial action (on the occasion of the UCU strike, 2019)

As the Universities and College Union strike goes into its second week, I find myself moved to blog about it. Followers of this blog will have noticed it's been a bit quiet recently.

(More accurately, it's been like this recently:)

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Unfortunately, blogging is one of the things I found much less time for as work has got more and more hectic. This is one of the issues that lies behind the strike (the link downloads a pdf with key issues around academic workloads).

But I have found blogging hugely rewarding over the years and I want to pick it up again, and so I'm taking the opportunity of the strike to talk about movies.

There's a grand tradition in Higher Education of the 'teach out' during industrial action, where students and staff come together to talk about ideas off campus as an alternative to cancelled classes and/or to crossing the picket line. I wanted to think about films that could allow us to talk through ideas about industrial action.

There are more moving and entertaining films about strikes out there than we might think! The ones I know reflect my own filmgoing and TV-watching generation:

Brassed Off (Herman 1996) is a musical about the miners' strike.

Bread and Roses (Loach, 2000) is based on the 'Justice for Janitors' campaign, waged by janitorial workers in Los Angeles who were trying to unionise.

The title Bread and Roses is based on the song of the same name, apparently originally inspired by a speech by the American union activist Rosa Schneiderman on the occasion of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike.

The 2004 BBC miniseries North & South is a romantic drama based on Mrs Gaskell's social realist novel about industrial unrest in the cotton mills of the north of England. Come for Richard Armitage's brooding but beautiful baritone, stay for the friendships across strict nineteenth-century British class boundaries:

 
Made in Dagenham (Cole, 2010) is the story of Rita O'Grady and the women machinists at Ford in Dagenham who went on strike for equal pay in 1968, which was followed by the passing of the Equal Pay Act in 1970.

Pride (Warchus, 2014) is about the miners' strike and the activism of a London-based group called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners:

The film also includes a beautiful rendition of the song 'Bread and Roses':



Other films that have been suggested by friends and colleagues include I compagni, starring Marcello Mastroianni, a film about a textile workers' strike in Turin in the late nineteenth century:

(From a #filmtranslationhistory perspective I cannot help noticing that nothing is said in this vintage American trailer about the industrial action itself, though there's plenty of the Mastroianni-as-star and women-in-their-undergarments typical of contemporary US perceptions of Italian cinema).

John Sayles's Matewan is set during a coal miners' strike in 1920 in West Virginia (see here for Sayles talking about some of the film influences on Matewan, which include The Organizer):

Kevin Brownlow's 1975 film Winstanley, a historical drama about Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, is available to watch on the BFI player.

For fans of Russian cinema and silent film I must mention Eistenstein's silent 1925 Strike and Pudovkin's 1933 silent Deserter, both watchable in various versions on Youtube.

On Tuesday last we saw Comrades, directed by Bill Douglas, released in 1986, an extraordinarily beautiful and moving film about the Tolpuddle Martyrs. Run, do not walk, to see this film (though be aware that it is 183 minutes long). It has recently been re-released and looks brilliant on a big screen.

On Monday afternoon I will be showing Pabst's Kameradschaft [Comradeship] (1931) at Twentieth Century Flicks video shop on the Christmas Steps. This is a film not about industrial action but about international solidarity between workers, which was not available for many decades but has now been re-released. The film was shot in French and German as a way of respecting both communities equally. Bristol folks who would like to come, please DM me on Twitter.

Again, run rather than walk to see this film. It's a lost treasure, and one of the first films to be released in the UK with English subtitles (by Paul Rotha). The re-release has new subtitles.

I hope these suggestions for filmwatching will help to inspire and energise my fellow strikers and our students, many of whom have been providing stalwart support in the form of hot drinks, cake and solidarity. Suggestions for more good films about industrial action are warmly welcome in the comments.

Upcoming translation events at Bristol

It's been a while since I've updated the blog, but just popping in to say we've got three events coming up at Bristol later this month and next month which may be of interest to readers:

1) Postgraduate Research Study Day

28 January 2019, 2-5.15 pm, in G4, 3 Priory Road.

Some of our PhD students in Translation Studies will be presenting their work, followed by drinks and nibbles in the School of Modern Languages, Common Room, 17 Woodland Road.
Enquiries to adrienne.mason at bristol.ac.uk.

2) Translation pricing event (N.B. translation students only)

Thursday 31 January 2019 

1715-1900, Room G4/5, 10 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UQ 

Registration at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translation-pricing-tickets-53683091572

This is a hands-on translation pricing and quoting workshop jointly held by the University of Bristol and the Western Regional Group (WRG) of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. Students will get first-hand advice from experienced WRG members who will discuss pricing strategies based on situations they encountered throughout their career. There will be plenty of time for networking over refreshments. Attendance is free but registration is required. Translation students from any institution may attend.


3) Subtitling Masterclass with Professor Luis Pérez González

Thursday 14 February 2019
2-4pm, G10, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UU.

In collaboration with Migrating Texts, we are delighted to present Professor Luis Pérez González of the University of Manchester. As part of our Subtitling Masterclass series, he will present on

Immaterial Subtitling in the Digital Culture Value Chain:

Implications for Subtitle Reception Studies

This event is free and open to all.
More details and a link to register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migrating-texts-subtitling-masterclass-2019-tickets-54303182280

We hope to see you there!

Why typography is important in subtitling

"Well, I'm back," she said.

I'm thinking about a paper I'm writing for the conference Beyond Words: Multimodal Encounters in Translation, which will take place in Cambridge in July 2018.

Part of the paper will talk about meaning-making in typography and specifically in film intertitles and subtitles. (I've said something about this before here)

Now I have come across this splendid fansubtitled video about Thranduil and the gems of Lasgalen, from Peter Jackson's Hobbit adaptation. Every character gets a different subtitle typeface:

So, two questions:

1) Which typeface is best suited to its character? Answers in the comments please. 

2) Which can you actually read without eyestrain? The video is shooting for accessibility, which is always a good thing, but the typefaces are not, really.

And if readers out there want to rank the typefaces in order of most to least accessible, I'm all ears! 

Two upcoming events: research seminar and film screening

I am very happy to announce two imminent events:

The first is a research seminar tomorrow, which looks fascinating and is free and open to all:

When Translation Multiples Tell Their Own Story

Dr Kasia Szymanska, Oxford University

Tuesday 17 April

16:00 - 17:30 | LR2, 43 Woodland Rd, University of Bristol

Kasia Szymanska is a Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Oxford University, where she is a member of the committee of the Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre.  Her research lies in literary translation thought, experimental translations, and multilingual poetics - especially with reference to the East European context.  She was awarded the 2015 EST Translation Prize and is currently serving as one of the judges of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

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The second event is an ultra-rare 35mm film screening on Sunday 22 April: 

Treasures from the Turin Film Museum

The silent period was a golden era for Italian cinema, with pioneer directors like Giovanni Pastrone, whose 1914 epic Cabiria influenced filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith. Historical epics were particularly popular. This event features five restored films from the collections of the Turin Film Museum, all with a classical theme. They include Pastrone’s Fall of Troy (1911) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1910), from the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which was the first Italian historical epic. The programme also includes Hero and Leander and Dido Abandoned from 1910; and Judas from 1911.

Followed by a Q&A featuring Stella Dagna from the Turin Film Museum, Professor Maria Wyke from UCL, Dr Pantelis Michelakis from the University of Bristol, and our distinguished accompanist Mr Stephen Horne.

The event is generously supported by a grant from the Institute for Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol. Organised in partnership with South West Silents.

Tickets are available here at the Watershed website (booking recommended): https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/8824/treasures-from-the-turin-film-museum

Christophe Fricker's translation shortlisted for book award: voting open

Happy news! My colleague Dr Christophe Fricker's translation into German of Hugh Aldersey-Williams’s Tide (in German Flut) has been shortlisted for the Austrian 'Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres' or science book of the year award:

Many congratulations to both Christophe and Mr Aldersey-Williams!

The winning books are selected via an open vote, and German speakers please note, anyone can vote at http://www.wissenschaftsbuch.at/ (page is in German). :)

Alex Zucker visits the University of Bristol

We are delighted to welcome the distinguished translator Alex Zucker to Bristol. The event is free and all are welcome.

Hand Over Fist or Hand to Mouth? Translating Fiction in the U.S. 

Thursday December 7th

5:15pm, 

G108, 21 Woodland Road. Entrance at 3-5 Woodland Road.

More literature is being translated into English than ever before. International fiction seems to be enjoying if not a golden age, then at least a moment. Is this a boon for the translating profession? The School of Modern Languages is delighted to welcome the leading American translator of Czech fiction, Alex Zucker, from New York City to share his experience and offer a sneak peek at results from the first-ever survey of working conditions for literary translators in the U.S.A. 

Alex's latest work is Three Plastic Rooms, the remarkable and linguistically bewildering monologue of an ageing Prague prostitute, by the leading contemporary Czech novelist, Petra Hůlová, to be published by Jantar in November 2017. You can find out more about Alex and his work at http://www.alexjzucker.com/

Enquiries to Rajendra Chitnis (contact details are here). 

Translation events coming up in Birmingham, Leicester, Portsmouth and Oxford, May-June 2017

There is a flurry of really interesting translation studies research events coming up. Events are free and open to all but you may have to register. See below for contacts.


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15 May  2017


Annual Translation Studies Forum 
Birmingham Translation Centre, University of Birmingham
1100-1800

A day of talks by Translation Studies colleagues at Birmingham and a keynote lecture (full disclosure: by me) on The Invention of Subtitling in the US and the UK

More information at http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/bct/events/2017/translation-studies-research-forum.aspx

Contact details for this event via http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/bct/about/index.aspx

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18 May 2017

Beyond Representation: Researching Audiovisual Translation outside the Margins of the Frame

Professor Luis Pérez-González

Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies

University of Manchester

LeCTIS (Leicester Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies)

More details at http://matsnews.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/lecture-in-leicester-by-luis-perez.html


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26 May 2017

Researching Translation and Fandom (Portsmouth)

Researching Fandom and Translation

University of Portsmouth, Park Building, Room 1.0

Part of British Academy/Newton funded project ‘Fan translation in Vietnam’

Draft Programme

Time	Event
10.30-11.00	Welcome delegates and coffee
11.00-11.15	Introduction Prof. Pal Aluwhalia (PVC Research) to open event
11.15-11.45	Fan translation: an overview Jonathan Evans, Portsmouth
11.45-12.15	Translation in Viet Nam Van Nhan Luong, DAU
12.15-13.00	Metaleptic Practices in Fan Audiovisual Translation Luis Pérez-González, Manchester
13.00-14.00	Lunch break (self-catered)
14.00-14.30	Overview of fan translation in Vietnam Le Bach Truong, Hue
14.30-15.00	From banjaxed to Hoover: linguistic issues in fansubbing Sarah Berthaud, Portsmouth
15.00-15.30	Fandom Translation in Vietnam: A Case Study of Cultural References in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Translation Versions by Official Publisher and Its Fan Community Dung Thi My Huynh, DAU
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-16.45	Translating Fandom: Appreciating Transcultural and Glocal Fan Practices Lincoln Geraghty, Portsmouth
16.45-17.00	Conclusions and ways forward

For further information on this event contact Dr Jonathan Evans on jonathan.evans [at] port.ac.uk


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 5 June 2017

ACLAIIR seminar on 'Translation Studies' in Hispanic Studies

We are delighted to announce that this year’s ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar will take place on Monday 5th June at the Weston Library, Oxford. The theme of the seminar is Translation Studies, and we have an excellent line-up of speakers presenting this growing area of academic interest from a Hispanic perspective.

Speakers include Jennifer Arnold (Birmingham University), Tom Boll (UEA) and Richard Mansell (Exeter University). The event will end with a translation ‘slam’, moderated by Peter Bush. Literary translators Rosalind Harvey and Sophie Hughes will each argue for their versions of a chosen extract from Mónica Ojeda’s Nefando (Candaya, 2016).

As usual, students are welcome to attend the seminar free of charge. Please note that booking is required as places are limited and registration is compulsory due to the access requirements of the venue.

To reserve your place, please fill in and return the booking form (available on the ACLAIIR website www.aclaiir.org.uk) by Tuesday 30th May.

We look forward to seeing you in Oxford!

Lecture in Leicester by Luis Pérez-González, 'Researching Audiovisual Translation Outside the Margins of the Frame', 18 May 2017

This looks like a great event: am sorry that I won't be able to be there, but in case any readers of this blog are in hailing distance of Leicester: 

The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Leicester is pleased to announce the 2017 Annual Lecture

Beyond Representation: Researching Audiovisual Translation outside the Margins of the Frame

Professor Luis Pérez-González

Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies

University of Manchester

Venue: Council Suite Room One, First Floor, Fielding Johnson Building, University of Leicester

Time: 6-8pm Thursday 18 May 2017, including a drinks reception

This session problematises the role that representation has played as the driving logic of mediation behind industrial approaches to audiovisual translation during the mass media culture – characterised by the centrality of tele-cinematic commodities, the prevalence of linear models of media consumption and distribution, and the mapping of audiovisual markets onto discrete national audiences. In the post-industrial digital culture that began to crystallise a decade ago, the means of media ‘prosumption’ have become more entangled and collaborative, and brought to the fore ‘the bottom-up energy of media created by amateurs and hobbyists as a matter of course’ (Blau 20015: 3). Against this backdrop, the portability and reproducibility of media content is reshaping the media marketplace: with streaming on-demand channels of transmission becoming more ubiquitous, audiences are becoming rapidly superseded by much more fragmented and fluid ‘audienceships’ (Pérez-González 2014). Significantly, for the purposes of this session, the networked dynamics of the digital culture are favouring intervention as an alternative approach to linguistic and cultural mediation that erodes the privileged status of the original text and allows for new forms of interaction between translators and their audienceships.

Under this new interventionist regime, scholars interested in the sociology of audiovisual translation are presented with new research challenges and opportunities. In this session, I will examine how audiovisual translation is quickly emerging as a community-building cultural activity, which calls for the analytical lens to be shifted away from the translation output towards the processes of organisation and deliberation that take place around this participatory activity and contribute to galvanising geographically dispersed collectivities of interest. Specifically, this presentation explores the theoretical and methodological demands that these developments place on audiovisual translation scholars, and surveys a range of frameworks that could assist us in harnessing the complexity of audiovisual translation activities in the digital culture.

Luis Pérez-González is Professor of Translation Studies and Co-director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a Co-investigator on the 4-year project Genealogies of Knowledge: The Evolution and Contestation of Concepts across Time and Space, and a case study analyst in the Manchester-led OWRI project Cross-language Dynamics: Reshaping Community – both of them funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. He is also author of Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues (Routledge 2014), editor of Routledge Handbook of Audiovisual Translation (2017), and co-editor of Routledge’s Critical Perspectives on Citizen Media book series. His articles have appeared in a wide range of international journals, including The Translator, The Journal of Language and Politics, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Pragmatics and Language and Intercultural Communication.

The event is open to all. For further information contact Dr. Anna Milsom at a.milsom [at] leicester.ac.uk.

The Translator Made Corporeal: Translation History and the Archive

Just a quick reminder to my more tireless (or insomniac) readers that there's a really wonderful-looking event coming up at the British Library on translation history and archival research. There's still time to sign up:

https://www.bl.uk/events/the-translator-made-corporeal-translation-history-and-the-archive

There are various concessions including a hefty discount for members of the Translators Association of the Society of Authors. 

There is, by any standards, a fantastic line-up of speakers - I think the only problem will be the embarrassment of riches. The programme includes a keynote by Jeremy Munday, author of a number of distinguished publications using archival methodology, including this excellent 2014 article (paywalled) in The Translator.

I hope to see many old and new friends there!

Free public lecture: Shakespeare's First Folio on stage

This looks like a great event coming up in the Theatre department at the end of this month: 

STR Wickham Lecture 2017: Shakespeare’s First Folio on Stage

Tues 30 May 2017 at 5.30pm

Professor Emma Smith

Wickham Theatre, Department of Theatre, Cantock's Close

The Department of Theatre is delighted to welcome Professor Emma Smith to give the Society for Theatre Research's 2017 Wickham Lecture.

Shakespeare’s First Folio on Stage

In the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays, the 1623 First Folio, there’s no mention of the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged for most of his career: the King’s Men. Many accounts of the Folio suggest that it rejects the theatre itself, by redirecting Shakespeare's plays away from the stigma of performance. Nevertheless, physical copies show us how the book was used by theatres and performers from the seventeenth century onwards. In fact, the history of actors’ encounters with this book demonstrates its ongoing association with the stage in different periods. From the recently discovered copy from the Jesuit college in St Omer, to the modern commitment to Folio punctuation by many actors and companies, this lecture attempts to put the stage back into the book.

No booking is necessary; please just turn up.

Prof. Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in the Faculty of English at Oxford University. Her research focuses on Shakespeare and on early modern drama. Her most recent book Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book (Oxford University Press, 2016) explores the material histories of individual copies of Shakespeare's First Folio from 1623 to the present day.

For more details contact Dr. Kirsty Sedgman

Researching Theatre Audiences & Cultural Value at University of Bristol
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow: ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Mapping the Relationship between Bristol Old Vic, London, the Regions and their Communities, from 1946 to the Present'
Membership Secretary & Treasurer, The Society for Theatre Research

Out now: Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales (Intellect)

Email: kirsty.sedgman at bristol.ac.uk
Twitter: @kirstysedgman

Post-doctoral opportunities in Translation Studies

Autumn deadlines have recently been announced for two of the main post-doctoral funding programmes. Applications to conduct research at the University of Bristol are eligible under both these schemes. Candidates interested in carrying out their projects at the University of Bristol are invited to contact Dr Carol O'Sullivan as early as possible with a draft proposal.

For an overview of the research interests of Translation Studies researchers at Bristol, as well as other universities in the South-West and Wales, see http://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/subjects/modern-languages/translation-studies/.


Elizabeth Shippen Green, 'The Library' (1905) taken from here with thanks.

 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships

These 2-year fellowships are funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme. All research areas are eligible. Applicants must either have a PhD at the time of the call deadline or at least 4 years full time research experience (inclusive of PhD). The mobility rules require that the researcher has not resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date (exceptions to this apply under the career restart and reintegration panels). The 2017 deadline is 14 September 2017.

Details of the call are available here:
 https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/msca-if-2017.html

UK Research Office (UKRO) Information Event
Please note that Bristol is also hosting a regional UKRO event on this year’s call on Tuesday 23 May 2017. If anyone is interested in attending, please visit the link below for more details. The event lasts most of the day so will be more useful for applicants themselves or supervisors completely new to the scheme. More info at https://www.ukro.ac.uk/mariecurie/Pages/events.aspx

 Image of Leiden University Library in 1610 taken from here with thanks

British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowships

These are 3-year post-doctoral fellowships in subjects covered by the British Academy (arts, humanities, social sciences). Potential candidates should expect to submit an advanced draft application and CV to the School of Modern Languages by 14 June 2017. You may contact rdm-arts at bristol.ac.uk for a blank copy of the application form. Proposals should be sent in the first instance to Dr O'Sullivan.
This is followed by process of review and candidate selection (the university caps the number of applications). Applications by selected candidates will need to be submitted to the Faculty's internal peer review process by 11 September 2017. The scheme deadline will be some time in early October 2017.

For a list of the main schemes which fund postdoctoral research in the UK and through which you can apply to work at Bristol, see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/postdoctoral-opportunities/.

Image taken from http://x-culture.org/hackathon/ with thanks