Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Awards at the Museum of the Home

The Centre for Studies of Home (CSH) is a partnership between Museum of the Home and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Building upon the CSH’s long track record of innovative collaborative doctoral research, the Museum of the Home has received funding for nine AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentships. 

The research forms part of the Museum’s Hidden Histories project, which aims to uncover new and diverse stories of home from the past 400 years, and challenge existing displays and collections at the Museum of the Home. All projects must meet one or more of the Museum’s strategic research priorities: 

• Sensory, spatial, and political dimensions of home – building on the Museum’s exploration of these themes in modern contexts; unearthing stories of identity and diasporic home-making; health and care; the impact of the environment on homes and domestic life 

• Diverse dwellings and ways of living – drawing on the Museum’s expanded definitions and explorations of home to examine the connections between home and city; private and shared space, different types of dwellings e.g. prisons, temporary accommodation, experiences of homelessness

• Democratising home on display – expanding upon the Museum’s innovative implementation of co-creative practices, engaging in practice-based research based in the Museum and partner organisations, and examining museological approaches to domestic stories and display.

Recruitment 

The Museum and our partner universities are currently recruiting for the three PhD projects that will form the second cohort of the CDP programme. Information on how to apply can be found by clicking the links below: 

Netherlandish networks: Home-making in an age of emerging global capitalism (1565-1799), with the Open University 

Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870, with QMUL

The Non-Elite Painting and Decorating Trade in Britain, 1600-1800, with QMUL [Link will be provided soon] 

Current CDP Projects 

• The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present, with the University of Westminster 

• Growing Up Queer: 1790-1918, with the University of Oxford 

• Making and Unmaking of Home - exploring multi-generational living in East London, with the Open University 

Further details on the CDP schemes are available from the AHRC and CDP Consortium websites. 

For any other enquiries, please contact research@museumofthehome.org.uk