Collaborative Doctoral Awards available for 2021-22

We are pleased to announce that we are advertising thirteen Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) for entry in 2021-22.

CDAs provide studentship funding for doctoral projects that are developed in partnership with an organisation outside of higher education. Enabling collaboration with a diverse range of external partners, CDAs foster links that may have long-term benefits for both partners, as well as social, cultural and economic benefits to wider communities. For doctoral students, CDAs offer an opportunity to gain professional experience outside the university environment and to develop and enhance their skill set.

CDAs advertised for entry in 2021-22 are listed below with links to further details. Further information on how to apply to the OOC DTP for studentship funding is available here.

Open University

• 'Colonial Co-operation in Africa, 1900-1960' with Dr John Slight (The Open University) and Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries) 

• 'Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism since 1945' with Dr Luc-André Brunet (History, The Open University) and Daniel Payne (Curator for Politics and International Relations, LSE Library)

University of Oxford

• 'Class, Art, and the Influences of British India: Bateman’s' with Dr Yasmin Khan (Oxford) and Dr Christo Kefalas (World Cultures Curator, National Trust)

• 'Jewish Books and their Readers in Early Modern Cambridge' with Kirsten Macfarlane (Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford), Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford) and Scott Mandelbrote (Perne Librarian and Fellow of Peterhouse)

• 'New approaches to analysing English speech variation due to regional dialect and personal identity' with John Coleman (University of Oxford) and Stephen Cassidy (BT Research and Innovation)

• 'Paint and Culture in Medieval England' with Professor Gervase Rosser (Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford) and Dr Lucy Wrapson (Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum)

• 'The First History of Elizabethan England: The Making of William Camden’s Annals' with Dr Alexandra Gajda (Faculty of History, University of Oxford), Dr Neil Younger (History, Open University) and Julian Harrison (British Library)

• 'Under the Volcano: Visitors to Vesuvius in the Romantic Era' with Professor Catriona Seth (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford) and Jeff Cowton MBE (Dove Cottage)

• 'Women and Work in the City of London, 1870-1970' with Rowena Olegario (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) and Clara Harrow (Head Archivist, Baring Archive Ltd.)

University of Cambridge

• 'Homeworking in Britain and Beyond, c. 1970 to the present' with Dr Helen McCarthy (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge) and Dr Lucy Brill (Homeworkers Worldwide)

• 'Labour and Livelihoods of Disabled People in Britain, c. 1970-2015' with Dr Lucy Delap (History Faculty, University of Cambridge) and Jonathan Pledge (The British Library)

• 'Making British Islam Across Generations' with Professor Esra Özyürek (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) and Sadiya Ahmed (Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative)

• 'The Romani Holocaust and its Aftermath: Gendered Perspectives' with Dr Celia Donert (University Lecturer in Central European History, University of Cambridge) and Dr. Barbara Warnock (Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library).