Collaborative doctoral studentships

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Oxford GLAM's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP)

Oxford GLAM's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) began in 2016 and operates across the six gardens, libraries and museums: the Ashmolean Museum, Bodleian Libraries, History of Science Museum, Museum of Natural History, Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum and the Pitt Rivers.

The Collaborative Doctoral Partnership training grants produce research that helps us to develop new perspectives on our collections and to share knowledge more widely and effectively with a range of audiences, while also training a new generation of scholars working between the academic and heritage sectors.

Each CDP studentship is jointly supervised in partnership between one or more of Oxford University museums and academics from UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI).

The partner HEI administers the studentship, receiving funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the student’s fees and maintenance in line with a standard AHRC award.

In addition to this full studentship award for fees and maintenance, Oxford University museums provide up to £2,000 per annum per student (pro rata) to cover the costs of travel between the HEI and Oxford, and related costs in carrying out research. Studentships can be based at any UK HEI apart from Oxford University.

For general enquiries about Oxford University GLAM Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships please contact Dr Harriet Warburton, GLAM Research and Impact Manager, at harriet.warburton@glam.ox.ac.uk. For enquiries about specific projects please contact the project supervisors named below.

Collaborative Doctoral Awards

GLAM hosts a number of doctoral studentships who are funded by other Collaborative Doctoral Award schemes, including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

2023 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums

Evaluating the Influence of Tangible 3D Printed Replicas on the Museum Experience

The University of Warwick and Oxford University Museum of Natural History are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded doctoral grant from October 2023. The project will explore in-depth the impact of tangible 3D printed replicas on education outcomes and visitor experience. It will employ a rigorous, mixed-methods approach borrowing heavily from the well-established discipline of industrial user experience (UX) and user centred design, augmenting traditional museum evaluation techniques with robust UX methods that have been extensively tested in other industries.

This studentship will begin on 1 October 2023 and will be jointly supervised by Professor Mark Williams & Dr Paul Wilson, University of Warwick, and Professor Paul Smith & Janet Stott, Museum of Natural History, Oxford.

For full details of the studentship, please follow the link to the advert on the University of Warwick website.

Please note that applications to this studentship have now closed.

 

Rivers of Bronze in the age of Iron (RoBIn): an interdisciplinary study of Iron Age copper-alloy material culture from the middle–upper Thames Valley

The University of Reading and the Ashmolean Museum are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded doctoral grant from October 2023. The project will enable a student to explore the production and circulation of metalwork in the middle and upper Thames Valley during the Iron Age in Britain (c. 750 BCE–43 CE), using an integrated characterisation approach to Iron Age metallurgy.. The successful applicant will have autonomy to shape the project based on their interests and will divide their time between the two institutions, receiving advanced research training and benefiting from experience in the Ashmolean's incredibly rich and diverse collections.  

This studentship will begin on 1 October 2023 and will be jointly supervised by Dr Peter Bray & Professor Duncan Garrow, University of Reading, and Dr Courtney Nimura & Dr Kelly Domoney, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 

For full details of the studentship, please follow the link to the advert on the University of Reading website.

Please note that applications to this studentship have now closed.

 

Creating the first Europeans. Tracing the development of Sir Arthur Evans’s vision of Minoan civilisation through documents and objects

The University of Bristol (School of Humanities, Department of Classics and Ancient History) and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford (Department of Antiquities), are pleased to announce a fully-funded four-year (full-time) / up to eight years (part-time) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership grant from October 2023 (or January 2024) to conduct research on the Sir Arthur Evans Archive and related Aegean Bronze Age collections in the Ashmolean Museum. By examining Evans's unpublished writings, held in the Sir Arthur Evans Archive at the Ashmolean, alongside his publications and the objects he acquired, the student will assess how Evans's vision of the Minoans developed over the decades either side of World War I. 

This studentship will begin on 1 October 2023 and will be jointly supervised by Professor Nicoletta Momigliano and Dr Shelley Hales, University of Bristol, and Dr Andrew Shapland and Dr Eleanor Standley, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

For full details of the studentship, please follow the link to the advert on the University of Bristol website.

Please note that applications to this studentship have now closed.

2022 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums

2021 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums

 

 

 

2020 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums

 

 

2019 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Museums

 

 

2018 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Museums

 

2017 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Museums

 

 

2016 collaborative doctoral student projects at Oxford University Museums