AHRC PhD studentship: Biocultural knowledge, power and poetics in South American featherwork
Birkbeck,
University of London, and the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative
Doctoral Training grant from October 2020 to undertake research on
South American objects made by Indigenous peoples out of feathers, of
with feathers attached, in the Pitt River Museum’s collections.
Exploring
South American featherwork in the PRM collections, this
interdisciplinary, practice-based doctoral project will seek to develop
ways of telling histories of specific objects that shed light not only
on the historical processes of collection in the field and the ‘lives’
of the objects in the museum, but also on contemporary debates on
Indigenous cultural identity, sovereignty and heritage rights, as well
as the dynamic relationships among Indigenous peoples, birds, and
environments. The project aims to provide understanding of these
feathered objects as historical biocultural objects, which afford ways
of telling the histories in which biodiversity emerges.
This project will be jointly supervised by Professor Luciana Martins, Birkbeck and Dr Laura Van Broekhoven, Oxfordand
the student will be expected to spend time at both Birkbeck and the
Pitt Rivers Museum, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP
funded students across the UK.
We
are looking for an excellent, highly promising and appropriately
qualified student who will embrace the opportunity to bring together
academic research in museum studies with experience and training in a
leading British museum.
We
want to encourage the widest range of potential students to study for a
CDP doctoral training grant and are committed to welcoming students
from different backgrounds to apply for our doctoral training grants.
In
general, full doctoral training grants are available to students who
are settled in the UK and have been ordinarily resident for a period of
at least three years before the start of postgraduate studies. Fees-only
awards are generally available to EU nationals resident in the EEA.
International applicants are normally not eligible to apply for this
doctoral training grant.
Hours: The doctoral training grant is available on either a full-time or part-time basis.
Closes: Friday 13 March 2020
Interviews will be held at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, on 27 March 2020.
Further information
For further details on the studentship and how to apply please follow the link below.
For informal enquiries relating to the doctoral training grant, please email: Professor Luciana Martins. Questions regarding the application process should be emailed to Anthony Shepherd, Postgraduate Research Team Leader.
Questions relating to the CDP programme within Oxford University’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums can be emailed to Harriet Warburton.