$31,260 per annum for three years (full-time).
An exciting creative opportunity for a PhD candidate to join an ARC project on Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds for Encounter and Exchange.
The PhD is for an established or emerging creative writer to extend their practice through participation in a project investigating principles and processes of ethical encounter and exchange through creative practice.
$31,260 per annum for three years (full-time).
One (1).
The PhD candidate will be supervised by Professors David Carlin and Francesca Rendle-Short.
To apply, prospective candidates should submit the following documents to David Carlin via david.carlin@rmit.edu.au
Proposals that indicate the candidate will start an independent project will not be considered appropriate.
Prospective candidates will be invited to submit a full application for admission to the PhD (Media and Communication) DR221 through the School of Graduate Research.
Scholarship applications will only be successful if prospective candidates are provided with an offer for admission.
The PhD student will commence in the second half of 2021 (month to be agreed).
31 March 2021.
31 May 2021.
This three-year ARC-funded research project, Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds for Encounter and Exchange, aims to analyse and develop innovative creative practices to connect writers and evolve literary cultures in the Asia-Pacific region. It will elaborate, test, evaluate and communicate an evolving model for best practice in intercultural and transnational exchange, based on principles and processes of ethical encounter and exchange through creative practice. It looks at and builds upon the work of a successful pilot program, Writers’ Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE), which has developed an organic network of 59 writers across 13 countries. The model, premised on situating creative writing as a way of thinking, being and learning collectively, centres on methods of curating and facilitating collaborative residencies.
The project asks: how might writers be supported to develop intercultural and international relationships that augment and transform their creative practices, and produce networks of cooperation across the Asia-Pacific?
The project’s objectives are to:
The PhD researcher will conduct creative practice-based fieldwork as a writer/participant in the project, extending and challenging their existing creative practice.
This is an opportunity to participate in and co-design a range of innovative exercises in creative and intercultural collaboration, alongside creative peers from across the Asia-Pacific, and to theorise and apply the collaborative and intercultural creative writing methods developed and explored through the project.
The candidate will produce a folio of creative work accompanied by a dissertation providing an original perspective on the project’s themes and research questions.
The PhD candidate will become a member of the vibrant and supportive community of practice within the non/fictionLab Research Group, in the School of Media and Communication, under the joint supervision of Professor Francesca Rendle-Short and Professor David Carlin. The candidate will be invited to connect with the Practice Research Symposium - PRS Asia and PRS Australia - PhD creative writing cohorts.
This scholarship will be governed by RMIT University's Research Scholarship Terms and Conditions.
David Carlin via david.carlin@rmit.edu.au
Acknowledgement of country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.