The Collaborative Doctoral Partnership consortium has funding from the AHRC to support current CDP students to work together to organise events and activities. Two or more current students can ask for up to £2000 from the CDP Student Led Activities Fund at any time during their studies.
Activities and events could be:
Knowledge Cafes, Dissemination events, Workshops, Seminars and Conferences, Skills Workshops, Study Tours, A small exhibition centred on a research project
Call for Proposals for student lead activities*
There are three calls per year to allow for adequate planning for each event
The dates for each call will be communicated to all CDP students in advance. Due to the pandemic some usual deadline dates have changed.
*Events must not clash with other CDP events, check with cdpadmin@britishmuseum.org for further info.
For more information and for an application from see our resources page
Rhian Addison (2017 – 2023) Landscape Artists’ Studios in the Age of Exhibitions, London, 1780–1850 Dr Richard Johns, University of York | Amy Concannon, Tate Britain Caroline Anjali Ritchie (2019 – 2023) Visionary Mapping in the Work of William Blake Professor Jon Mee, University of York | Amy Concannon, Tate Britain The Spatial 18th Century: …
Teaching Through Objects: Engaging Students with Material Culture in University and Public Settings On 25 and 26 November 2020, Collaborative Doctoral Students Rosanna Evans, Nicola Froggatt, Mary McMahon and Susan Newell welcomed educators and researchers to an online workshop exploring object-centred teaching and learning practices. This interdisciplinary event was designed to address the gap in …
Podcasting the Past: how to turn your PhD research into a podcast On the 24th of August, thirty AHRC funded researchers and five speakers met online for a podcasting workshop. Podcasts are currently the most popular form of modern digital audio content with 10 million podcasts registered online. Podcasts which use historical sources to illuminate …
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Student Led Activity – Lasting Impressions Study Day 28th June 2019 In June 2018, the Lasting Impressions brand was born. At the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, CDP students Abbey Ellis, Valentina Risdonne, Katherine Clough, and Carolyn Alexander hosted their first study day which focused on the institutional role of the replica within museums and …
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Making a Case for Cases: The Furniture of Display The Bowes Museum, County Durham, 10–11 January 2020 Proposals due by 22 November 2019 This conference aims to explore the furniture used by collectors, museums and institutions for displaying artefacts. Spanning diverse functions and definitions, objects known as display cases, showcases, china cabinets, vitrines, specimen …
Student Led Symposium: ‘Women, Work and Commerce in the Creative Industries, Britain 1750-1950’ 8 & 9 February 2019 V&A and University of Westminster Spanning two days in February 2019, Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) students Erika Lederman, Hannah Lyons and George Mind welcomed over 80 attendees to the V&A and Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, for …
Collecting Practices was a workshop organised by Georgia Vullinghs, Laura Volkmer (both of University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland) and James Inglis (University of St Andrews and National Museums Scotland). The workshop was designed to provide Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) students with some knowledge from museum/archives professionals on how collections are put together. The …
Press Play! Active Oral History Practice and Dissemination Workshop. 29th October 2018. World Rugby Museum, Twickenham Stadium, London. Press Play was a one-day workshop organised by Lisa Taylor (River and Rowing Museum, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Lydia Furse (World Rugby Museum, De Montfort University) on the practice of oral history in PhD research. With three …
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Student Led Activity: ‘The Opportunities & Challenges of Studying the 20th-Century History of Science, Technology & Medicine’, 5 October 2018, Nucleus archive, Wick, Caithness. Early career historians of 20th-century science, technology and medicine gathered on 5 October 2018 for a one-day workshop at Nucleus, the new national archive for civil nuclear records in Wick, Scotland. …
Lasting Impressions Study Day 2018 On June 29th 2018, Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) students Valentina Risdonne, Katherine Clough, Abbey Ellis, and Carolyn Alexander had the pleasure of welcoming 35 attendees to Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the first Lasting Impressions study day. The aim of the study day was to investigate the significance of historic reproductions on shaping …
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