Audiobooks and Australian Literary Culture PhD Scholarship

This PhD scholarship is supported by the Australian National University (ANU) as part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA). The scholarship supports research on contemporary Australian audiobooks within the larger project 'Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture: Australian Books and Publishing at a Time of Global Disruption'. The PhD candidate will develop an independent project within this context, making use of the project's title database and library circulation data integrated with AustLit. Possible research areas include audiobooks for vision impaired readers, the history of Australian audiobook publishing, or computational approaches to audiobook studies. The scholarship provides a stipend for 3.5 years of full-time doctoral study supervised by Dr. Millicent Weber at ANU's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Centre for Australian Literary Culture, Humanities Research Centre, and ANU Digital Hub, offering skills training in critical thinking, writing, digital humanities, data analysis, and bibliography. The scholarship includes opportunities to work with industry partners including the Australian Publishers' Association, Small Press Network, Australian Library and Information Association, Vision Australia, and the Australian Sound Recording Association.