The Graduate Centre in the School of Humanities invites applications from outstanding postgraduate students for four AHRC collaborative doctoral awards. The awards are equivalent in value to standard AHRC studentships and you may apply for a collaborative award even if you have already applied to the 2008 AHRC Doctoral Awards Scheme. Our collaborators and projects are:
The Charleston Trust
Creating the Artefact: Photography, Partnership and Identity at Charleston
Charleston, the Sussex home of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, was a centre for people in the Bloomsbury Group, such as Virginia Woolf. Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell decorated the house and collected around them fine and decorative art, including a substantial collection of photographs, that reflected their life, work and friendships. These two doctoral projects will analyse the deeply collaborative working relationship between Bell and Grant and investigate the use and meaning of photography as part of their artistic practice and one of the ways in which Bloomsbury established its identity.
National Maritime Museum
Nineteenth-century British art and travel
The National Maritime Museum holds very rich collections of visual material related to travel, which are largely untapped for art history. The Museum therefore last year established the Research Centre for the Study of Art and Travel, to explore the relation between western art and travel over the early-modern to modern periods. This doctoral project will study some aspect of nineteenth-century British art and travel, focusing on the NMM's collections. Proposals are invited on any appropriate topic, but will be particularly considered for their relevance to the broader understanding of the history of British art.
East Sussex Record Office
Community and the Law: the Role of Lawyers in Sussex Society c.1750-1900
The East Sussex Record Office has particularly rich holdings of records of solicitors' practices in the County (including both clients and firms). This project aims, through the study of these and associated records, to investigate the role of lawyers and the law in local community life, and through it the formation and mobilization of both social networks and social capital in community contexts and beyond. The studentship has the potential to bring to the fore new perspectives on familial, occupational, and political networks in the English provinces.
Full details of how to apply including further particulars, which are essential for all applicants, are available from Margaret Reynolds. Email: M.Reynolds@sussex.ac.uk. Tel. +44 (0)1273 678098.
The deadline for applications is Friday 23 May.
