CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Awards
Collaborative Doctoral Awards are defined projects that offer the opportunity to work collaboratively between a CHASE university institution and a partner organisation. We are delighted to offer the following projects to start in October 2025
How to apply
CDA applications are made directly to the host institution, not through the CHASE application system. You can apply for individual projects using the link in the project advertisement.
Please note, the CHASE AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) studentship competition has now closed. The below remains for information only.
The application and interview process for these studentships is being coordinated by the relevant academic partner institution for each CDA project.
Successful applicants will be notified mid-May.
Coastal Heritage and Socio-Economic Decline on the Isle of Sheppey: Learning from the lost village of Elmley in Kent
Applications are invited for a CDA with the University of Kent and Hillcrest Conservation Consultants, Kent. Working with leading professionals in heritage conservation, you will explore coastal heritage, and how industrial shifts, climate change, and economic factors contribute to the erosion of cultural landmarks and community identities.
SONIC MEDIALITIES, ANCESTRAL SOCIALITIES: accessing anti-colonial resistance through sound archives, orality, music, performance and listening practices
The Art Research Programme and the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths, and the Abotcha - Mediateca Onshore in Malafo, Guinea Bissau, invite applications for a fully-funded doctoral studentship on ‘Sonic Medialities / Ancestral Socialities: accessing anti-colonial resistance through sound archives, orality, music, performance and listening practices’.
Recovering the Submerged Graphosphere of Westminster Abbey
This project will allow one student to gain from an exciting partnership between Westminster Abbey’s Archives and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent.
Drawing for Humans and Machines
The Art and Computing Departments at Goldsmiths and Drawing Room public gallery invite applications for a funded doctoral scholarship to research drawing as a way of exploring new partnerships between humans and machines (computing, AI, robotics) at a time of technological change.
Creating a Feminist Archival Praxis to Reveal Histories of Women in the UK Advertising Industry
Through the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE), we are offering a fully funded PhD studentship with the University of East Anglia and the History of Advertising Trust.
Re-storying the Sussex Weald Garden: Exotics, Empire and Ecobiography.
Applications are invited for a funded collaborative PhD between the University of Sussex and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), investigating the plants and people of three estates in the Sussex High Weald.
Domesticating ‘Invalid Furniture’, c. 1850-1914
We are inviting applications for a CHASE collaborative doctoral award, to be jointly supervised by Dr Claire L. Jones, School of Classics, English and History at the University of Kent, and Dr Megan Wheeler, Assistant National Curator (Furniture) at the National Trust, for 3 years starting on 1 October 2025.