North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership
The University of Liverpool is a member of the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the AHRC (www.nwcdtp.ac.uk/).
We invite applications from talented philosophers wishing to pursue postgraduate research in philosophy starting in September 2020. The deadline for the submission of applications for funding is Friday 7th February 2020 at 5pm.
To be eligible to apply for funding candidates should have applied to the Philosophy PhD programme at Liverpool by Monday 13th January 2020. Potential applicants should contact Prof B Dainton (bdainton@liverpool.ac.uk) for further information and to discuss their research proposals.
Co-supervision with other philosophers within the Consortium (which also includes the Universities of Keele, Lancaster, Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University) is possible.
The Department of Philosophy at Liverpool is part of the School of Arts located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and has a lively and friendly research environment with a strong community of research students.
For information on the Department’s ‘Philosophy and the Future’ research theme, see:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/research/research-projects/philosophy-and-the-future/
The Department currently has three research groups:
Metaphysics, Language & Mind with current interests including consciousness, physicalism, space and time, perception, women in analytic philosophy, modality, nominalism, the self, linguistic idealism and the nature of the proposition.
Religion, Ethics & Practical Philosophy with current interests including in political philosophy, the meaning of life, environmental philosophy, applied epistemology, death, consequentialism, normative aspects of public health, future technologies, transhumanism, the ethics of human enhancement, philosophy of religion, philosophy of law, animal ethics, and the nature of reasons and moral intention.
The Aesthetics, Art & Literature group works closely with galleries, museums and other external institutions and has current interests especially in the relationship between aesthetics, art theory and artistic practice, the history of aesthetics, philosophy and pedagogy, art and biotechnology, philosophy of literature and the aesthetics of Plotinus.
For further information about our work, see: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/research/
Information on applying for applying to Liverpool, see: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/how-to-apply/
For more information on the NWC funding application process, including full eligibility criteria, see http://www.nwcdtp.ac.uk/funding-prospective-students/
If you have any queries about applying to hold a studentship at Liverpool please contact the Faculty Research Support Team at hsspgr@liv.ac.uk