AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships 2014 – Partners research priority areas
British Library
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The Antiquarian Book Trade in Britain 1918-1939: unlocking the Maggs archive
The British Library Tangut Manuscripts
The Changing Cultures of Government Science since 1979: Exploring Privatisation and
Commercialisation through Life Histories
The Creation of the Stein Collection: From Imperial Dispersal to Digital Unification
Maps and the Italian Grand Tour, 1660-ca. 1824
The Music of Thea Musgrave: an analysis based on the manuscript sources
Religious music in South Asia: aspects of continuity and change
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and constructions of identity in the Anglo-Indian novel
Understanding the Anglo-Saxons: the English and Continental manuscript evidence
British Museum
Objects, meanings and knowledge
Food, drink and cuisine
Ocean trade and connections
Image and authority
Technologies, materials and innovation
Seeing the divine
National Archives
Historical
 the mechanics of the central government machine (13th-17th centuries)
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land ownership, transfer and inheritance in the medieval and early modern periods
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common law, politics and power in medieval and early modern England and Wales
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early modern letter writing, literature and record keeping
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developments in early modern science, technology, art and material culture
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legacies of Empire
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British foreign policy in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries
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transatlantic relations during the Cold War
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popular radicalism in the 18th and 19th centuries
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attitudes to vagrancy and poverty in the 19th century
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surgeons at sea: Royal Navy medical officers' journals
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the social impact of the First World War
Heritage science
 sustainable stewardship: targeting wider collection management issues in order to provide
solutions for sustainable stewardship of The National Archive's collections and exploring the
potential of modeling and technology to provide evidence for decision-making
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managing material change: for example, understanding materials, degradation processes and the
relationship of materials to their environments, to enable The National Archives to predict the longterm stability of its holdings
Digital
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challenges in identifying and managing sensitive historical digital records
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challenges in identifying and linking individuals across multiple series of digital records
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archival digital collections as historical big data: challenges in understanding, exploring and
visualising large digital collections
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challenges in documenting and managing the context, provenance and integrity of the historical
digital record during digital transfer from creating bodies to archives
English Heritage
1. Field Systems (NHPP 4F2): Understanding historic farming and field systems.
2. Methodological and Technical Development (Supporting Actions): Methodological advances in studying
human skeletal remains.
3. Community Engagement in protection (Supporting Actions): Heritage of under-represented or protected
groups – Deaf Heritage in England
Imperial War Museum
TBA
National Maritime Museum
We are interested in proposals for collaborative doctoral studentships on any aspect of our collections, but
especially the following subjects and themes:
 New insights into the history of the Museum’s key sites, including The Queen’s House and the Royal
Observatory Greenwich
 Post-1900 aspects of the Museum’s core collections and subjects: the history of art; the history of
science and technology; and the naval and maritime history of Britain (with a particular emphasis
on its social and cultural aspects)
 The history of post-1700 British maritime exploration and its legacies
National Gallery
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Art & Religion
Buying, Collecting, Displaying
Meaning of Making
Venetian Art and its history
National Portrait Gallery
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inter- and cross-disciplinary historical studies based on the collections;
heritage science: realising the potential of science and technology to address arts and humanities
questions;
digital humanities: for example, research opportunities in the digital world; the role of the digital archive;
museological and archival studies: for example, pedagogy and interpretation
Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society – 2014 Calls for Project Proposals
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We are open to original and innovative research proposals on any topics that relate to
the strategies of either or both Societies within the subject domain of AHRC.
While the CDA projects must be anchored in the collections of one (or both) of the Societies,
projects with a contemporary as well as historic focus are encouraged.
Scottish Heritage Consortium
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Creation, history and care of Scottish material culture
Analysis, interpretation and presentation of material culture
Impact and understanding of collections and the historic environment
Science Museums Group
This year, we are looking to attract a mix of proposals both to nourish our known forward programme AND
to expand our understanding of our collections and concerns longer term.