AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship - Fashioning Black Identities in Early Modern Britain

This is a fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship focused on researching Fashioning Black Identities in Early Modern Britain. The project is a collaboration between Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The studentship is available from October 2023 and provides full funding for doctoral research. The student will be jointly supervised by Professor Alistair O'Neill (Professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins), Dr Susan North (Curator of Textiles and Fashion, V&A), Dr Tanveer Ahmed (Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins), and Dr Christine Checinska (Senior Curator, Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion). The student will be expected to spend time at both Central Saint Martins and the V&A, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. The studentship can be studied either full-time or part-time. The project particularly welcomes applications from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented at this level and in this area.