AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award: ‘Architectural models and the professional practice of the architect, 1834–1916’
Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum
The Royal College of Art (RCA) and the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) invite applications for an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award on Architectural models and the professional practice of the architect, 1834–1916, to begin Autumn 2015. The PhD will be based in the V&A/RCA History of Design Programme.
In the last two decades a variety of disciplinary communities, including history and philosophy of science, history of economics, and history of technology, have been increasingly interested in models, and have discussed their epistemic function. Models both embody existing knowledge and hold the potential to be generative of new knowledge. They therefore mediate between past, present and future. In the field of architectural history, little attention has been devoted to the way in which models informed design practice, particularly with respect to the 19th century. The student will explore how architects thought about, made and used models during the period in question. The rich collection of architectural models held at the V&A and at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will be used as a springboard to analyse this question from a variety of perspectives.
Applicants should have completed or be nearing completion of a Master’s level degree in a related field (History of Art, Architecture, Design, History of Science and Technology). Applicants must also be UK or EU citizens and be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom. Further information on eligibility requirements is available from the AHRC website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk.
This PhD studentship will be held at the RCA and co-supervised by Dr Simona Valeriani (Tutor, V&A/RCA History of Design Programme) and Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner (V&A Curator of Designs and Lead Curator for the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership). Ancillary supervision will be provided by Dr Kent Rawlinson (Head of Collections & Public Programmes, RIBA) and Joe Kerr (Head of Critical & Historical Studies, RCA).
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 2015. It will cover tuition fees at home/EU rate and provide a maintenance award at RCUK rates (currently £16,413 p.a.). In addition the AHRC provides an extra £550 per annum for Collaborative Doctoral Award students, while the V&A provides additional financial support (up to £1,000 a year for two years) to the student towards authorised travel and related research costs.
The closing date for applications is 21 April 2015, and it is anticipated that interviews will take place at the RCA on 5 May 2015.
How to Apply
For full details of the Collaborative Doctoral Award and further details of how to apply http://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research/student-research/funding-and-support/architectural-models-studentship/
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