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5 Archives, 2 Underground Lines and 1 PhD Student: Scott’s NWCDTP Fieldwork Trip to London
By Scott Backrath, PhD History, Thesis: Global Biopiracy in the Age of Empire: Indigeneity, Decolonisation, and the Politics of...
AHRC NWCDTP Team research projects– initial proposals
The AHRC NWCDTP is looking to fund one interdisciplinary team-based project as part of its Collaborative Doctoral Award recruitment round in 2023/24.The successful project will be awarded funding for up to three postgraduate researchers working on a team project. At...
Bringing the British Library’s digitised heritage collections to new audiences
by Amy Solomons, PhD Candidate at the University of Liverpool. In September 2022, I joined the Heritage Made Digital team at the British Library for a three-month placement with the aim of making more of the Library’s digitised content freely available online. At the...
Funded PhD Opportunity
greenroom was one of the most important venues for the promotion of live art in the North West from 1987 to 2011. It shaped the Manchester contemporary performance scene for 25 years and, alongside the ICA and Arnolfini, was one of the main centres for British...
Collaborative Doctoral Award opportunity: Cosmopolitan Collection and Regional Resource: The Social Life of Tatton Park Library
Cosmopolitan Collection and Regional Resource: The Social Life of Tatton Park Library AHRC-funded PhD Studentship at Keele University in collaboration with Tatton Park, Knutsford, and the National Trust Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD in English...
Collaborative Doctoral Award opportunity: ‘Total Liberation’: Feminism, Socialism and Red Rag (1972-1980)
SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER) and THE PEOPLE’S HISTORY MUSEUM FULLY-FUNDED PhD Re-advertised Start date: 1 October 2023 Duration: 3 years Closing date for applications: 6 February 2023 ‘Total Liberation’: Feminism, Socialism and Red...
My summer internship at Hollywood Universal Pictures – by James Moffatt
My recent Researcher-Led placement in Los Angeles was a profound experience that has had significant impact on my development as an industry practitioner in film music composition and audio post-production as well as my research and ongoing PhD. The placement...
My experience documenting the low brass-wind collection at the Grassi Museum – by Jack Adler-McKean
Music instrument museums operate a difficult balancing act. Like any other historical collection, they have a responsibility to preserve the past in a manner that is relevant for the present, and also able to inform the future. However, what is contained within are...
Queering Plas Newydd historic house through textile art – by Sarah-Joy Ford
For my Researcher-Led placement project, I partnered with Plas Newydd Historic House and Gardens to undertake an artist residency, where I would produce new artworks for a site-specific installation. The exhibition was the first of its kind to take place inside the...
My placement experience at an independent publishing house – by Rory Cook
I recently completed a six-month part time placement through the NWCDTP Researcher-Led Placement Scheme, working at Prototype Publishing, an independent publishing house working with fiction and poetry through an interdisciplinary approach. This was an excellent...