Lucija Duda
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to announce a new studentship, in collaboration with the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester.
The studentship is inspired by the life and work of Professor Stuart Hall and his research legacy in the areas of race, ethnicity, cultural and structural inequalities. Aware of the obstacles to accessing higher education, we are committed to continuing Professor Stuart Hall’s life-long commitment to provide opportunities to students from non-traditional backgrounds. Applications for this studentship are particularly welcome from candidates from non-traditional or disadvantaged backgrounds who are under-represented at graduate level in the School of Social Sciences at Manchester.
We are very happy to be able to offer a PhD with the Stuart Hall Foundation. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to do a PhD with us and to have the support of the Stuart Hall Foundation and be part of a community of scholars both in the School fo Social Sciences at the University of Manchester as well as at the Stuart Hall Foundation. Sophie Woodward, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
The Stuart Hall PhD Scholarship will be awarded to one student in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester for a PhD starting in September 2021 and will cover fees (either home or international), a stipend and a research training support grant. The scholarship can be held in any of the 8 Departments within the School of Social Sciences. It is expected that the award-winner will be working in an interdisciplinary area of study focused on one of Stuart Hall’s many areas of interest: cultural studies, race, ethnicity and inequalities.
Potential applicants should first apply to the Department of their choice for a PhD place, and will then be advised whether they can make a further application for this scholarship. See the website for information on the relevant Departments and how to apply for a PhD.
Closing date for PhD applications:
- Politics, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Law, Criminology, Social Stats – 1st December
- Economics – 8th January
- Philosophy – 11th January
Closing date for applications for the Stuart Hall PhD scholarship: March 1st, 2021.
Admission related queries to vicky.barnes@manchester.ac.uk
Contact department admission tutors for enquiries relating to research proposals and content.
How to applyContact admission tutors
As a Stuart Hall PhD scholar, I became a part of the network of scholars and fellows whose academic aspirations and themes follow the life and work of Professor Stuart Hall. Although my PhD has just started, talks and events organised by SHF are giving the continuous impetus to my work, allowing me from the beginning to address the questions of racial, class and gender inequalities in the light of current social dynamics. Being involved in this network inspires me to fight relentlessly for a more inclusive future while relying on recent words of Angela Davis, inspired by Stuart Hall, “when we do this work of organising against racism, hetero-patriarchy, capitalism — organising to change the world — there are no guarantees, to use Stuart Hall’s phrase, that our work will have an immediate effect. But we have to do it as if it were possible.“ Lucija Duda, Stuart Hall PhD Scholar, University of Manchester
Lucija Duda’s doctoral research project, A Call For An Analytic Feminist Model Of Argumentation, proposes how a long history of male dominance and antagonistic style of argument has led analytic philosophy to associate rationality with maleness and whiteness, excluding feminine, socially marginalised and diasporic phenomena.
Lucija will analyse feminist argumentative speeches, such as those delivered by Sojourner Truth, Klara Zetkin, Betty Frieden, Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Teller, Rosa Parks, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her aim is to develop an anti-essentialist line on the so-called feminine style of reasoning, as opposed to the traditional essentialist conception of the term, associating women’s reasoning mostly with emotion, subjectivity, irrationality and intuition.
Dr Frederique Janssen-Lauret, Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Manchester, says:
“Lucija Duda’s proposed PhD is highly innovative and will make a positive difference both to forging links between analytic philosophy – especially logic- and the social sciences, and to combating male and white dominance within philosophy. Her background in linguistics, including formal and informal logic, and in women’s studies leaves her exceptionally well-placed to connect these matters to logic and philosophy of language. The many novel connections made within the research project and its ability to integrate different bodies of literature which are rarely brought into dialogue, offer an exciting opportunity for public discourse and will also contribute to interdisciplinary interaction between departments”.
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