PhD Research Collaborations

We support a small cohort of collaborative doctoral students, who are co-supervised by Gallery staff and academics from universities across the country. Many of these studentships have been funded by the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme, in which the Gallery has participated as part of the Thames Consortium (with Royal Museums Greenwich and The National Archives) and the REACH Consortium (with Royal Museums Greenwich, the British Film Institute, Historic Royal Palaces and the National Trust). We have also partnered in Collaborative Doctoral Awards funded by the AHRC through Doctoral Training Partnerships.

Examples of studentships include:

  • ‘The Female Miniaturist 1640-1840: Recovering Lives, Practices and Representations’, with Sheffield University, funded through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities

  • ‘The Quest for Harry Diamond (1924-2009): The Archive as a “Maze of Masks”’, with Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, funded through REACH

  • ‘Lucian Freud’s Childhood Correspondence and Drawings’, with University of Birmingham, funded through Midlands4Cities

  • ‘Under-represented Historical Lives: Exploring the Impact of Contemporary Art on Heritage and Collections Policy and Practice’, with the National Trust and University of Newcastle, funded through REACH

  • ‘Radical Portraiture 1789-1819’, with Queen Mary University, funded through the Thames Consortium

Cover image: Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud by Harry Diamond (1974), NPG x135768 © National Portrait Gallery, London