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Non-academic partners and Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships

Below is an outline of some of our recent Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDPs).

Our partnerships

Collecting and displaying contemporary middle eastern art and design at the V&A

  • Project title: Collecting and Displaying Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Design at the V&A: A Comparative Analysis of Museum Practices
  • Partner: V&A
  • Student: Carlo Rizzo
  • Supervisors: Dr Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck) and Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A)

British women printmakers in the long eighteenth century

  • Project title: British Women Printmakers in the Long Eighteenth Century 
  • Student: Hannah Lyons
  • Supervisors: Professor Kate Retford (Birkbeck) and Sarah Grant (V&A)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2018

Collecting the boundaries of art in the science museum group

  • Project title: Collecting the Boundaries of Art in the Science Museum Group.
  • Partner: The Science Museum Group
  • Student: Surya Bowyer
  • Supervisors: Professor Steve Edwards and Dr Katy Barrett (SMG)
  • Date of enrolment: January 2021

Shaping postcolonial worlds: Otto Koenigsberger, global architecure, and the networks of the international planning consultant

  • Project title: Shaping Postcolonial Worlds: Otto Koenigsberger, Global Architecture, and the Networks of the International Planning Consultant.
  • Partner: The Architectural Association
  • Student: Albert Brenchat Aguilar
  • Supervisors: Professor Mark Crinson, Professor Leslie Topp and Edward Bottoms (AA)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2019

Women photographing architecture: the Royal Photographic Society, knowledge sharing networks and changing gender roles (1890-1939)

  • Project title: Women Photographing Architecture: The Royal Photographic Society, knowledge sharing networks and changing gender roles (1890-1939).
  • Partner: The V&A
  • Student: Francesca Issatt
  • Supervisors: Professor Patrizia di Bello and Dr James Ryan (V&A)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2020

Slave-ownership and the National Portrait Gallery

  • Project title: Slave-Ownership and the National Portrait Gallery
  • Partner: The NPG
  • Student: Liberty Paterson
  • Supervisors: Dr Sarah Thomas and Dr Lucy Peltz (NPG)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2020

Displaying the invisible: Islamic architecture and the modern museum

  • Project title: Displaying the invisible: Islamic architecture and the modern museum.
  • Partner: SOAS
  • Student: Johann Spillner
  • Supervisors: Professor Mark Crinson and Dr Simon O’Meara (SOAS)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2019

CULTURAL SNIPERS: PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE IN BRITAIN, 1970-1990

  • Project title: Cultural Snipers: Photographic Portraiture in Britain, 1970-1990.
  • Partner: National Portrait Gallery
  • Student: Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe
  • Supervisors: Professor Patrizia di Bello and Dr Sabina Jaskot-Gill (NPG)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2019

MAKING AN IMPRESSION: BRITISH WOMEN PRINTMAKERS IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 

  • Project title: Making an impression: British women printmakers in the Long Eighteenth Century.
  • Partner: The V&A
  • Student: Hannah Lyons
  • Supervisors: Professor Kate Retford and Dr Sarah Grant (V&A)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2017

COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART AND DESIGN AT THE V&A: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MUSEUM PRACTICES

  • Project title: Collecting and displaying contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Design at the V&A: a comparative analysis of museum practices.
  • Partner: The V&A
  • Student: Carlo Rizzo
  • Supervisors: Dr Sarah Thomas and Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A)
  • Date of enrolment: October 2016