Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships on Hidden Histories of Home

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. 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.

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 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