Department of Geography, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources
Cornwall Campus and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum
Following the award of an extended programme of AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentships, the University of Exeter, in partnership with Porthcurno Telegraph Museum invites applications for a doctoral studentship for three years commencing on 1 October 2008. Further appointments will be made in October 2009 and 2010.
The overall theme of the extended programme is "Themes in the Historical Geography of Communication: the Eastern Telegraph Company to Cable and Wireless, 1869-1945". The successful candidate will undertake research on an aspect of this broad theme to be agreed by the doctoral student and supervisory team of Professor Catherine Brace, Professor James Ryan and Dr Nicola Thomas.
Under the terms of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme, the successful applicant will benefit from opportunities to work closely with Porthcurno Telegraph Museum team, who are responsible for the management and promotion of the museum and its activities. This will involve gaining first-hand experience of working on the management of the collection instead of simply viewing it as a scholarly resource. The experience of working with this collection will enhance the employment-related skills and training of the doctoral student.
Specific skills related to the handling, preservation and organisation of fragile archive material will be augmented by more generic skills transferable into any workplace such as negotiating between priorities, managing time and resources, working to a brief, working with others, and communicating findings to expert and lay audiences. A key feature of this collaborative project is that the student will have the opportunity to communicate the outputs of the PhD research to non-academic audiences through, for example, exhibitions, WebPages, leaflets and talks.
To find out more about this project, and how to apply, please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/geography/postgraduate/funding_opportunities.shtml#AHRC
The deadline for applications is Wednesday 30th April 2008.
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