AHRC CDA PhD Studentship Birkbeck and the Royal Society

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

Picturing Mato Grosso, 1967-69: expeditionary science and salvage fieldwork

Birkbeck, University of London (School of Arts) and The Royal Society, London   

Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship to undertake scholarly research on the role of photography within the twentieth-century exploration of Brazil. The project will focus on the untapped records of the joint Royal Society/Royal Geographical Society Expedition to North-Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil (1967-1969), exploring the relationship between the photographic camera and the ‘salvage paradigm’ in geography and other field sciences. It will contribute significantly to current research on the cultures of scientific fieldwork and the visual culture of expeditionary science in the twentieth century.
The studentship funding is subject to final confirmation by the AHRC but will be fully funded for three years full-time (or five years part-time) and will begin in October 2014.
This project will be supervised by Dr Luciana Martins, Director of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (Birkbeck, University of London) and Keith Moore, Head of Library and Information Services at the Royal Society.
Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 14 March 2014.
Details of the application process are available here.