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Here's an exciting opportunity - please publicise to any potential applicants.
Further details at the Files Area on our Childlore List at Jiscmail
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London Social Science ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

> 
>     Collaborative +3 or 1+3 PhD Studentship 
> 
>     Adventures in the City: The Politics and Practice of Adventure Play in
> Urban Britain, c. 1955-97
> 
>     School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London with the V&A Museum
> of Childhood and the Centre for the Study of Childhood Culture
> 
>     Applications are invited for a PhD studentship examining the social,
> political and spatial history of children’s adventure playgrounds in post-war
> Britain. Drawing upon the V&A Museum of Childhood’s (MoC) recently acquired
> Donne Buck Archive (an internationally important collection of materials
> documenting the people, practices and politics of the adventure playground
> movement since the 1950s) alongside other materials, it will explore debates
> about the importance of play spaces within post-war urban regeneration;
> consider changing understandings of the role of (adventure) play within
> theories of child development, education and learning; look at children and
> their parents’ experiences of new adventure playgrounds; and investigate the
> role of the adventure playground movement in campaigning for child welfare and
> citizenship in the shifting political contexts of the late twentieth century.
> Alongside the academic outputs, the project will make a significant impact on
> the work of the V&A Museum of Childhood, by contributing to its permanent
> gallery transformation programme and directly informing the construction of a
> new, collaboratively-designed adventure play area at the museum.
> 
>     The studentship will commence on 1 October 2016 and will be based in the
> School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and will be supervised
> by Professor Alastair Owens (School of Geography), Dr Kiera Vaclavik (School
> of Languages, Linguistics and Film), Rhian Harris (Director, Museum of
> Childhood) and Catherine Howell (Collections Manager, Museum of Childhood).
> The postholder will also have a base at the V&A Museum of Childhood and will
> be affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Childhood Culture. The
> studentship covers tuition fees and includes a non-taxable annual stipend
> currently valued at £16,057 (2015-16 rates).
> 
>     The studentship may be either 1+3 (one year MRes followed by three year
> PhD), or +3 (three year PhD only, available for those with suitable
> masters-level social science research training). Eligibility is based on UK
> residency, although non- UK resident EU students may apply for a fees only
> award. The deadline for submitting an application is 5pm, 31st January 2016. 
> 
>     Informal enquiries can be made to Alastair Owens, [log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , 020 7882 2750
>