Royal Holloway is the lead member of the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership, which offers Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
*** The competition for 2024 entry is now closed ***
2024/2025 Techne Collaborative Doctoral Awards:
The Geographical Museum: Making Knowledge through Objects
Inviting applications for PhD research at Royal Holloway, University of London on the artefact collection of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), its past role and potential uses in the context of object-centred humanities research and engagement in museum settings. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to adapt the project according to their own interests and to work across academic, heritage, and archival contexts.
Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Inviting applications for PhD research with a focus on an unresearched publishing-house archive and will enable the creation of new knowledge about natural history publishing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work across academic, heritage, and archival contexts.
Television Drama in Transition: Screen Two, the Single Play and the Television Film
The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce a TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This fully-funded studentship will focus on British television drama and the ‘television film’ in the 1980s and 1990s and will involve a collaboration with BBC History.
