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Job: PhD studentship ‘Floating palaces: royal yachts, maritime tours and constructions of monarchy, empire and decolonization, c. 1875-1997’
AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship Birkbeck – National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum and the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London, together with Historic Royal Palaces, invite applications for a fully funded doctoral studentship under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme and as part of the REACH Consortium (National Maritime Museum, National Portrait Gallery, British Film Institute, Historic Royal Palaces, National Trust).
The project will examine the culture and politics of royal yachts and maritime tours in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. How were these ‘floating palaces’ used to influence perceptions of British monarchy, power and legitimacy in colonial and post-colonial contexts? What did royal yachts and maritime tours mean in the context of post-1945 imperial decline and the unravelling of traditional certainties about Britain’s global influence? How did the roles performed by royal yachts change, and how were they appropriated, resisted or ignored by diverse colonial and post-colonial communities across the globe?
The project organizers anticipate that the project will be of particular interest to students who are working or intend to work in areas such as the representation of monarchy, colonial and imperial histories, post-colonial studies, maritime history and world history.
The PhD studentship will have a stipend of £17,885 per year (with an additional grant for travel expenses)
The studentship is fully funded for 45 months (3.75 years - or part-time equivalent) with the potential to be extended for another three months. Three to six months of the funded period should be spent on professional development and not on research for the thesis.
Closing date: Monday 1 June, 9am
For further information and application details please see the attached link.
