History of Art

AHRC Collaborate Doctoral Awards
University College London
Department of History of Art

The UCL has been awarded two Collaborative Doctoral Awards from the
AHRC for research and is currently seeking to award
two fully-funded PhD studentships from October 2009.

One award is for the project 'Preserving Skin: The Collection and
Preparation of Tattoos in Late 19th-century France' which will be run
by Dr Mechthild Fend in collaboration with Dr Lisa O'Sullivan of the
Science Museum. The other award is for the project 'Drawing Strategies
in the 1960s and 1970s' to be run by Professor Briony Fer in
collaboration with Tate.

Collaborative Awards are intended to encourage and develop
collaboration between Higher Education Institutions (HEI) departments
and non-academic organisations and businesses. Collaborative research
studentships provide opportunities for doctoral students to gain first
hand experience of work outside an academic environment. The support
provided by both and academic and non-academic supervisor enhances the
employment-related skills and training a research student gains during
the course of their award.

See the departmental website for the application procedure and for
further particulars:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/opportunities