Posted by Rosie Jennings on November 13th, 2024.
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Full time (four years) or part time (max. eight years)
Deadline for funding applications: Monday 13 January 2025 12:00 GMT (noon UK time)
The School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester are pleased to announce two fully funded, collaborative doctoral award PhD opportunities. They are open to UK and international students and start in September 2025.
1) Centring the Rural: Organisational Identities, Public Engagement and Curatorial Practice at Wysing Arts Centre, 1989 to today
Founded in rural Cambridgeshire in 1989, Wysing Art Centre provides alternative environments and structures for artistic research, experimentation, discovery and production. Examining Wysing’s organisational identities and curatorial practice as a central case study, this PhD research project investigates the changing relationship between contemporary art and rural places over the last 35 years.
Further details about the project can be found here.
2) Collecting Contemporary Art for the Nation: Building the Arts Council Collection, 1950-1989
How do you collect art that is ahead of its time? Over 1950-1989, the Arts Council Collection committee acquired artworks by artists who became important to other national collecting institutions often only much later. This PhD research project explores the committee’s support for avant-garde movements and for equity of representation.
Further details about the project can be found here.
Further details about the M4C award and how to apply can be found on the Midlands4Cities website.
