Current PhD students

  • Jade Hunter

    Home, Migration and Belonging on a Suburban Estate

    ESRC CASE studentship (LISS DTP) with Eastside Community Heritage.

  • India Whiteley

    Disability and the Home: Space, Domesticity and Identity in London, 1840-1945

    AHRC LAHP Collaborative Doctoral Award.

New AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD opportunities with the Museum of the Home

Three new PhD studentships, starting in Autumn 2024, will feed into our research hub and become part of the CSH cohort.

‘Making and Unmaking of Home: Exploring Multi-Generational Living’ 
The Open University

‘Growing Up Queer, 1790-1918’
University of Oxford

‘The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present’
 University of Westminster

Completed PhDs

  • Shabna Begum

    Stay and Fight: how a Bengali squatters’ movement claimed ‘home’ and belonging in the East End of London in the 1970s (2021)

    QMUL studentship.

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  • Tessa Chynoweth

    Domestic Service and Domestic Space in London, 1750-1800 (2017)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home-work programme).

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  • Jesse Connuck

    Deploying Home: US Military Homemaking Practices Since the Cold War (2024)

    The Leverhulme Trust
    (Mobile People programme).

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  • Rob Dickens

    Domestic Spiritualities: New Church Spiritualists, Writing and Authority in Mid-Victorian London (2019)

  • Emily Harris

    Interfaith Connections at Home: Domestic Space, Practice and Dialogue in Contemporary London (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and Religion programme).

  • Laura Humphreys

    Domestic Labour, Metropolitan Households and the Wider World, 1850-1914 (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home-work programme).

  • Miri Lawrence

    Judaism in the Suburban Home, 1945-1979 (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and Religion programme).

  • Jane Mackelworth

    Sapphic Love in Britain, 1900-1950 in Texts, Objects and Spaces (2017)

    QMUL studentship.

  • Ruth Mather

    The Home-Making of the English Working Class: Radical Politics and Domestic Life in late-Georgian England, c.1790-1820 (2017)

    QMUL studentship.

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  • Carey Newson

    Inside Teenagers' Bedrooms: a Cross-Generational Study of the Teenage Bedroom and its Material Culture (2016)

    ESRC studentship.

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  • Laura Roberts

    Staying Afloat? Making Home and Creating Place on London's Canals and Rivers (2024)

    ESRC CASE studentship (LISS DTP) with the Museum of the Home and Canals and Rivers Trust.

  • Emily Vine

    Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in London, 1600-1800 (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and religion programme).

  • Annabelle Wilkins

    Home, Work and Migration for Vietnamese Communities in East London (2016)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and religion programme).

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Have an idea for a PhD project?

If you have an idea for a PhD project that fits with the concepts and themes of the Centre for Studies of Home, or you want to hear about upcoming PhD opportunities with us, we’d love to hear from you.