[ecrea] AHRC PhD Studentship in collaboration with Imperial War Museums (IWM) and University of Brighton

The IWM and Public Memory of the Second World War
AHRC PhD Studentship in collaboration with Imperial War Museums (IWM) 
and University of Brighton

Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD at the University of 
Brighton: “The IWM and Public Memory of the Second World War”. This is 
offered under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme. The 
partner institutions are the University of Brighton and the IWM. The 
studentship will be supervised by Dr Lucy Noakes and Professor Graham 
Dawson, University of Brighton, and James Taylor of the IWM. This 
full-time studentship, which is funded for three years at standard AHRC 
rates, will begin on 1 October 2015.

The Studentship

This project will examine the politics of Second World War display and 
audience engagement and interpretation at IWM. Its overall aim is to 
explore the changing landscapes of remembrance, commemoration and memory 
of the Second World War in Britain in both a recent-historical and 
contemporary context. The project will trace the successive phases of 
permanent and temporary exhibitions that have taken place at IWM since 
the end of the conflict in 1945. It will deliver a critical analysis of 
the IWM’s programme of Second World War exhibitions, events and related 
public activities. In documenting the evolving process of Second World 
War display over the last 50 years, the project will uncover how memory 
and commemorative practices have changed alongside myriad cumulative 
cultural influences. This analysis draws from, and engages with, 
existing work both on the development of museological pedagogy, as well 
as debates concerning the heritage and commemoration of war. By 
analysing each decade of exhibition and audience- development activity, 
the project traces a history of public engagement with the Second World 
War. It is also provides an opportunity to explore the future direction 
and meaning of the landscape of remembrance and commemoration. As the 
national war museum and a leading commemorative site, the IWM continues 
to play a fundamental role in channelling and interpreting this emerging 
field of cultural memory. The project will, therefore, also undertake an 
examination both of the IWM’s own preparations of new, permanent Second 
World War galleries. This studentship follows on from the previous 
Collaborative Doctoral Award on ‘Remembrance, Commemoration and Memory: 
Negotiating the Imperial War Museum’s First World War Exhibitions, 1964 
– 2014’, which began at IWM in 2011. This partnership with the 
University of Exeter contextually analysed the museum’s permanent and 
temporary First World War exhibitions over a fifty year period. It is 
intended that this studentship will follow a similar trajectory but with 
reference to the Second World War, and that the student will be able to 
support IWM’s future programming in a similar capacity.

The award pays fees up to the value of the full time home/EU rate for 
PhD degrees as well as maintenance (the latter is available to UK 
citizens and residents only, for more information visit: 
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Student-Funding-Guide.pdf). In 
addition, the student is eligible to receive up to £1,000 a year from 
IWM and £1,000 a year from the University of Brighton towards research 
expenses.

How to Apply

Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree in History or another 
relevant discipline, and will need to satisfy AHRC eligibility 
requirements including Masters-level advanced research training or 
equivalent.

Applicants should submit via email a curriculum vitae (no more than 2 
pages), a sample of writing, a brief letter outlining their 
qualification for the studentship, and the names and contact details of 
two academic referees to Sara McCallum, Research Officer, IWM 
((research /at/ iwm.org.uk)) no later than 5pm on Friday 10 April, 2015. All 
documents should be submitted in either a MS Word or PDF format. Please 
ensure the subject line of your email appears as ‘surname, first name – 
IWM/Brighton studentship.’

Interviews are scheduled to be held in London on W/C 27 April, 2015. 
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete an application to the 
College of Art and Humanities Doctoral Programme at the University of 
Brighton.
For further information please contact Sara McCallum 
((SMcCallum /at/ iwm.org.uk) | 020 7416 5461).

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Professor Graham Dawson
Director, Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories
Co-leader, Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence 
research cluster

School of Humanities
University of Brighton
10-11 Pavilion Parade
Brighton BN2 1RA
UK

email: (G.Dawson /at/ brighton.ac.uk)
telephone: direct ++ 44 [0]1273 643094;
or School Office ++ 44 [0]1273 643301.

http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/graham-dawson


















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