Hi there,
I'd be most appreciative if you could circulate details of this PhD studentship opportunity to any students who you think might be interested in applying.
Many thanks indeed,
Hayden
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THE ART OF EARTH-BUILDING:
PLACING RELIEF MODELS IN THE CULTURE OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY
AHRC PhD Studentship
Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship (3.5 yrs full-time), which will examine the place of relief models in modern geography.
The studentship is in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and makes use of the Society’s collections. The award is made by the ‘Science Museums & Archives Consortium’, which is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
Due to begin in October 2017, the project will be supervised by Professor Hayden Lorimer and Dr Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow) and Dr Catherine Souch (RGS-IBG).
The Studentship
The studentship will develop a historical geography of the relief model as a key component of modern geographical research and teaching, making use of a unique set of solid plasterwork models held in the RGS collections, as well as establishing the extent and health of a dispersed “archive” of surviving relief models in British university geography departments and schools today. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the relief model developed alongside a repertoire of techniques for diagrammatic, photographic and cartographic reproduction. The project will examine relief models as an educational and instructional aid, on display in universities and school classrooms, used variously to: illustrate the emergence (and denudation) of surface landforms; explain the nature of geophysical, hydrological, fluvial and coastal processes; reveal subsurface geological structures; and, show differing kinds of human response to environmental setting. Through a combination of archival research, biographical inquiries and material culture studies, the project will place geographical relief models, and the unheralded work of the relief modeler and commercial supplier, amid wider cultures of popular science and pedagogy. During the course of the studentship, there will be opportunities
within the public programmes of the RGS-IBG to present and display emerging research to public audiences.
For a full project description, see:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/researchandimpact/postgraduate/#/
How to Apply
Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree in Geography, History, History of Science, or other relevant discipline, and, a Masters-level degree that satisfies AHRC eligibility requirements for advanced research training; or equivalent professional/occupational experience. Preference may be given to candidates with prior experience of working with museum collections and material culture, though this is not an essential for application.
Applicants should submit:
(i) a two-page curriculum vitae, including contact details of one academic referee
(ii) a sample of academic writing (approx. 2000-3000 words in length)
(iii) a 1-2 page letter outlining your suitability for the studentship to:
Professor Hayden Lorimer,
School of Geographical and Earth Sciences,
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow G12 8QQ
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Closing Date: Monday 20th March 2017.
Interviews are scheduled to take place at the University of Glasgow on Tuesday 18th April 2017.
For further information concerning the project, please contact:
Hayden Lorimer ([log in to unmask]).
For further information about RGS-IBG collaborative doctoral research go to
http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Research+and+Higher+Education/AHRC+Collaborative+Doctoral+Awards/AHRC+Collaborative+Doctoral+Awards.htm
For further information about PhD research in Geographical and Earth Sciences at University of Glasgow go to:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/researchandimpact/
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