Applications are now open for a Ph.D. position funded by the University of Bristol, University of Southampton, SS Great Britain Trust, and AHRC as part of the project “Maritime Migrations: Transfers and Displacements in Britain’s and Australia’s Nineteenth-century Exchange”
Application deadline: Monday, January 25th, 2021
This project examines the role played by empires, oceans, and trans-national maritime networks in laying the foundations for modern processes of globalization, deploying a range of methods and approaches from within and beyond the discipline of history. The student will examine how intersections between maritime networks, markets, and states shaped migratory transfers and displacements between Britain and Australia in the nineteenth century. Research will be grounded in the collections of the SS Great Britain Trust. The project seeks to overcome the “blue hole” – the often absent factor of maritime forces – in our historical understanding of the ways in which populations, commodities, markets and ecosystems interacted with and confronted one another. Candidates are encouraged to interrogate the ways in which maritime agents – ship owners, brokers, recruiters, global merchants – worked to influence migratory transfer of people, markets in material goods, flora, fauna and ecosystems, and/or symbiosis among these.
This studentship is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council through the South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP). It is co-supervised by Prof. Simon J. Potter, University of Bristol and Dr. John McAleer, University of Southampton, in partnership with Dr. James Boyd, SS Great Britain Trust.
For details on this fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) please visit: https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CDA-5-Maritime-Migrations.Further-Details.pdf
Find out more about the application and the studentship here: https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/prospective-students/apply/collaborative-doctoral-award-projects-2021/
Submit your application here: https://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/prospective-students/apply/
