Open Doctoral Award Sample Applications

Sample Applications

Please find on this sub-page a range of successful sample applications from the 2021-2022 applications cycle.

Please note that the application form changes year to year - so be sure that your candidates this year are using the most up-to-date forms. For example, on this year's forms the project schedule (200 words) is separate to the project description (500 words); in 2021-2022 these were one section of 500 words.

• ARCHAEOLOGY: Hallowed objects and the boundaries of magic in Scotland cAD1400-1700
  
  
• CLASSICS: Informal diplomacy in Ancient Rome
  
  
• CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS (DESIGN): An indissoluble unity
  
  
• CULTURAL & MUSEUM STUDIES: Brazilian contemporary art in the global biennial context, 1998-2020
  
  
• CULTURAL & MUSEUM STUDIES: Photographic digitisation in UK heritage archives
  
  
• CULTURAL & MUSEUM STUDIES (CDA): Richard III's afterlife: adaptation and heritage
  
  
• DANCE: Remembering touch
  
  
• DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: A solidarity approach to disaster management
  
  
• HISTORY: Psychedelic selves
  
  
• HISTORY: Curiosities and oddities
  
  
• HISTORY: Life in Mexico
  
  
• HISTORY: Queer women in the East Midlands
  
  
• LANGUAGES & LITERATURE: What then do I love, when I love my God
  
  
• LAW & LEGAL: Utilising international human rights law to promote civil liberties in the US
  
  
• LINGUISTICS: Language beyond boundaries
  
  
• MUSIC: An ecology of the large jazz and improvising ensemble scenes in the UK
  
  
• PHILOSOPHY: Formulating a probabilistic argument from divine hiddenness and seeking empirically informed solutions
  
  
• VISUAL ARTS: (In) fertile embodiment