PhD Studentships

Current research 

Contributing disciplines and areas include: applied philosophy, critical theory, cultural geography, cultural and social history, cultural studies, ethics, literature, material culture, political history, politics and political philosophy, psycho-social studies and social anthropology.

PhD students

As we are committed to developing avowedly interdisciplinary understandings of the many facets of violence, our PhD students (currently 34, including 10 studentships awarded to the cluster by the University of Brighton in 2013/2014) work collaboratively both on their specific research topics and on broader issues in order to help further both the cluster's scholarly reputation and its public impact. These include conferences, workshops, symposia, public events and related activities.

 The 10 funded studentships deal with these topics: 

• Justice, memory and experience in reconciliation after conflict

• What constitutes violence? Victims, survivors and trauma

• Memorial landscapes: Negotiating post-conflict spaces

• War, policing and the state: New forms of violence?

• The politics and ethics of drone bombing in historical context

• Histories, memories and the sites and spaces of conflict: Tropes of haunting in negotiating violent past

• Understanding LGBTQ activism in South Africa in an era of digital culture and social media

• Camp de Rivesaltes: A topography of French cultural memory

• Discourses in sexuality and masculinity acquisition and its implication for gender violence in Ghana

• Just another teenage rebel: Belfast punk and the Troubles, 1974–1979

For details of the rest of our research and related intellectual interests click here. Proposals by both academics (including of course students) and activists are very much welcome. If you have suggestions that link with our work, do contact us: conflictcluster@brighton.ac.uk