14/12/2022
The RAF Museum and King's College London are currently inviting applications for a fully funded (academic fees and maintenance stipend) Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship to research, write, and complete a dissertation on ‘Gender, Culture and Class Structure: The influence of women on the RAF’s development in the early 20th Century’.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council - AHRC and the London Arts and Humanities Partnership the project will examine the role of gender on the RAF’s culture and class-structure. Created in 1918, the RAF deliberately sought to create ‘new traditions’, its own unique culture (distinct from the older British armed services), and to promote ‘air mindedness’ to the British public. Historical narratives of the RAF have marginalised the role of gender in this process.
This project will identify a broader pattern of female influence in the early 20th Century which remains largely obscured within British historiography.
The lead supervisor will be Dr David Jordan (Freeman Air & Space Institute, Defence Studies Department, KCL). The supervision team will include Professor David Edgerton (Department of History, KCL), Dr Sophy Antrobus (Freeman Air & Space Institute, KCL), and Dr Harry Raffal (Royal Air Force Museum).
Candidates should fulfil the appropriate King’s College London admissions requirements for a PhD – Bachelor’s degree with 1st class or 2:1 Honours degree and a Master of Arts with Distinction or Merit in a related subject.
For further information on how to make an enquiry and to apply for this opportunity please visit our website at: https://lnkd.in/e5zCrDsY
The closing date for applications is 27 January 2023.
Image shows: Commandant Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
