The Heritage Consortium will soon be awarding PhD studentships designed to train the next generation of Heritage professionals and researchers. The studentships encourage interdisciplinary research that is engaged directly with local communities, museums and other partner institutions. As part of the programme you will receive specialist training in Heritage Research and work with supervisors from across the institutions contained in the Consortium.

Northumbria University has a wide range of Heritage expertise in Heritage Management, English Literature, History, Cultural Studies and other fields, and encourages applications from students in areas including:

• Commemoration and collective memory (celebration and ritual at heritage sites; conflicting memories of minority groups; literary heritage and cultural tourism; memorials, sculpture and public art)
• Migration and diaspora history (associational culture; cultural transfer; roots tourism; material culture; ethnic associations)
• Museum history and heritage conservation and management (historic houses; histories of galleries and exhibitions; archives and collections; conserving urban heritage)
• Public…