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Collaborative research on the Collections
We are part of the Science Museums and Archives Consortium, which each year award six AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral studentships.
Relief models
The Indigenous map
Circulating Arctic Science
Geography in print
Expeditionary film
Instruments of Exploration
Armchair geography
Geographical projections
Weather imaginaries
Hidden histories
For the last decade, supported by the AHRC, the Society has hosted PhD students working collaboratively on the Collections. Currently, this is supported through the Science Museums and Archives Consortium (along with the Science Museum Group Museums, BT Archives, and the Royal Society). All projects involve a collaboration between a university-based researcher and the staff and (archive) materials at one of the CDP consortium institutions.
If you are an academic from a university with a potential project that draws on the Society's Collections, or have an interest in discussing opportunities, please contact Dr Catherine Souch.
At RGS-IBG we are keen to encourage proposals for PhD projects within the remit of AHRC that relate to the Society's Collections, strategy, and opportunities afforded by the current Wiley archives digitisation programme, and engagement with new audiences. We encourage any prospective applicants to look at the projects currently supported and earlier Collections-based projects including Crossing Continents and Hidden Histories.