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Master Degree Scholarships in Politics and Art History by CRCEES

The Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) has been awarded funding over five years to develop and establish postgraduate training programmes (diplomas, taught and research masters degrees, and PhD scholarships).

The University of Glasgow is the hub for a new inter-institutional Centre of Excellence under the Language-Based Area Studies initiative. CRCEES has been awarded initial funding of £4.7m over five years, and brings together distinguished national and international partners.

The Centre offers postgraduate training in the form of language diplomas, taught and research masters degrees (in total 40 awards), and PhD scholarships (20 awards). A total of 8 post-doctoral fellowships will also be awarded.

CRCEES offers events, including:

• summer schools in the region;
• regular research seminars;
• public policy days for the wider community.

The Centre will also organise a major Winter Festival.

The main areas of research interest within the Centre are:

• aspects of identity and culture and their social, political and economic implications;
• economic and social transformation;
• political transformation and international relations;
• literary, cinematic and cultural developments; and
• the politics of language.

Countries covered include: Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, amongst others.

Member Institutions:
The hub of CRCEES is the School of Slavonic, Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow which includes the Department of Central and East European Studies and the Slavonic Studies section of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures as well as staff from Politics, History and Art History.

Partners are drawn from the universities of

• Aberdeen - Department of Politics and International Relations;
• Edinburgh - School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures;
• Newcastle - School of Geography, Politics and Sociology;
• Nottingham - School of History, School of Geography, Department of Politics and Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies;
• St Andrews - Department of International Relations and Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies;
• Strathclyde - The European Policies Research Centre and the Department of History;
• West of Scotland - Centre for Contemporary European Studies.

In the coming five years (2006-2010), CRCEES will invest in 19 PhD studentships, 40 Master/PgDip studentships and eight-post doctoral fellowships, creating structured career opportunities and encouraging the next generation of highly skilled researchers into language based area studies.

The closing date for studentship applications for the 2010 - 11 academic sesssion is 19th February 2010

Website: http://www.gla.ac.uk/crcees/index.html

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