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A dimly lit steel shelving unit lined with white tissue paper and labelled with small white stickers. The shelves hold stored objects including a shallow glass platter, plates, a blue glass basket, a tall flared blue glass vase, a pale yellow vintage radio, a wooden radio cabinet, and more.

Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships on Hidden Histories of Home

Nine studentships in three cohorts looking at domestic stories and displays, 1600 to the present.

For enquiries

Please contact the Curatorial team at research@museumofthehome.org.uk

We have nine fully-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentships that critically engage with our unique collections and displays.

About

Hidden histories of home: Domestic stories and displays, 1600 to the present

The Centre for Studies of Home (CSH) is a partnership between Museum of the Home and Queen Mary University of London (QM). Building upon the CSH’s long track record of innovative collaborative doctoral research, Museum of the Home has received funding for nine fully funded Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentships, with the second cohort of three students starting from October 2025, and the third cohort of three students starting from October 2026.

In addition to supervision by their Higher Education Institute (HEI), successful candidates will be jointly supervised by relevant subject specialists at Museum of the Home.

The CDP research students will be embedded at Museum of the Home and within the collaborative research community at CSH and will benefit from specialist training (including on employability) and cohort development provided by both. Engagement and impact will be core to their research through the opportunity to shape the redesign of the Rooms Through Time and associated programming.

Current CDP research projects: 

Cohort 1

  • The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present, University of Westminster 
  • Growing Up Queer: 1790-1918, University of Oxford 
  • Making and Unmaking of Home – exploring multi-generational living in East London, Open University 

Cohort 2

  • Netherlandish networks: Homemaking in an age of emerging global capitalism (1565-1799), Open University 
  • The Non-Elite Painting and Decorating Trade in Britain, 1600-1800, University of Cambridge 
  • Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870, QM 

 

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

Call for Expressions of Interest: AHRC CDP Awards

Expressions of Interest now open for Cohort 3 of CDP studentships exploring domestic stories and displays, 1600 to the present.
Apply now
A richly patterned red, black, and floral carpet with a stitched square textile laid at the centre, bordered in red, yellow, and orange. Five colourful check-patterned balls sit atop the textile. Scattered around the edges are old-fashioned toys, paper cards, and a small illustrated box, suggesting a Victorian-era play setting. The scene is lit with dim but warm light, with shadows cast diagonally across the composition.
A blurred figure walks across a room in front of weathered looking panels and windows showing a model of a city.

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