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        Date: 2026-10-09 07:10:11+00:00
        From: Chiara Palladino <chiarapalladino1@gmail.com>
        Subject: PhD studentships at Durham University: Transformative Humanities

Dear all, please circulate this announcement widely to potential interested
applicants.

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Durham University (UK) is delighted to announce the competition for up
to eleven PhD studentships in Transformative Humanities, supported by 
our AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award and the Faculties of Arts & Humanities 
and Social Sciences, for projects beginning in October 2027.

The award supports interdisciplinary projects led by Arts & Humanities or
Social Sciences. This competition is open to both home students (up to
nine awards) and overseas students (up to two awards, covering overseas
fees).

Information for applicants is available on this page
<https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/arts-
humanities/study/postgraduate-funding/phd-studentships-in-transformative-
humanities/#d.en.2570665>.

Applicants must submit their application by 15 January 2027, noon (UK
time).


The cross-faculty panel will select the applications on the basis of the
following criteria:

·                Quality of the project (30%)
·                Pertinence to Transformative Humanities
<https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/arts-
humanities/research/transformative-humanities/>
 (30%)
·                Feasibility of the Project in 3.5 years (full time) or 7
years (part time) (20%)
·                Viability of the project in terms of project costs and
available training support (20%)


The recording of last year's information session for applicants
remains available, and below are the incoming students who are 
supported via this scheme:

   - Alker, Amber PHIL, Epistemic Injustice in Functional Neurological
   Disorders
   - Arkley, Stephen LAW, Making Womb: What Makes a Parent -
   Ectogestation, Pregnancy, and Legal Identity
   - Bates, Jessica HIST, Environmental and Cultural Histories in Black
   Landscapes in Jamaica and South Carolina (c. 1670-1870)
   - Copeman, Ann THEO, Ritual, Symbolism, Embodiment, and Relational
   Health: Ecologies of Gardening Practice
   - Drami, Ifigeneia CLAS, Animating the Artificial: Antropomorphism,
   Classical Literature, and Critical Engagements with AI in Education
   - Oreddson, Ellen HIST, Transnational Abolitionism in Sweden from 1781
   to 1878
   - Small, Charlotte ENGL, Violence, Trauma and Memory: Cultural and
   Physical Relationships between Women and their Bodies in the Seventeenth
   Century
   - Wagner, Clarissa ARCH, The Newest Technology Meets the Earliest Art:
   Experimental Psychology and the Emergence of Art in the Palaeolitic Old
   World
   - Walker, Conor CLAS, Modelling Alliances and Economic Partnerships in
   Classical Greece: A Trans-disciplinary Approach


Please do not hesitate to contact artsandhumanities.pgrteam@durham.ac.uk with
any questions.

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All best,

--
Dr Chiara Palladino (she/her)
Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and the Ancient World
How to pronounce my name <https://www.name-coach.com/chiara-palladino>
Department of Classics and Ancient History
Durham University



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