AHRC Student Success

Three new doctoral students have successfully applied for funding under the AHRC doctoral-award scheme this year. Helen Pleasance, Venetta Uye and Mark Hallihan are all due to commence their studies in October 2007. Their projects and prospective supervisors are: "The biological subject: beginning an integration of biological science and poststructuralist thought on gender and subjectivity" (Mark, with Dr Kate McGowan), "Memoir as a form of the ‘uncanny’: a creative-writing investigation" (Helen, with Dr Andrew Biswell), and "Steampunk: Retro-Science Fiction in Literature and Cinema" (Venetta, with Dr Linnie Blake). The three awards mean that ERI can now claim a 50% success rate in the competition, with three out of six applications proving successful. (In 2005/06 the national average success rate was at 27%.)