Cumbria and Transatlantic Slavery - PhD opportunity

Posted: Friday 12th July 2024

ESRC funded research on Cumbria and Transatlantic Slavery, 1700-1833

This project will provide the first comprehensive study examining Cumbria’s relationship to the transatlantic slave trade. It is groundbreaking in not only its geographic scope, but its methodological use of individual lived experiences to bring together previously discrete historiographies on Cumbria and the Americas, with a focus on Virginia.

Full time, 3.5 year PhD studentship, starting in September 2024, fully funded by the Economic & Social Sciences Research Council CASE studentship scheme (ESRC NWSSDTP), together with Keele University and Cumbria Archives. Part of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership. 

CASE studentships involve a PhD student working in partnership with an organisation to undertake a study which is designed to be relevant to the organisation. This creates an invaluable opportunity for students to undertake PhD research which bridges academic and professional concerns, having a direct impact in a professional context whilst also producing a PhD thesis.

This PhD, entitled ‘Cumbria and Transatlantic Slavery, 1700-1833’, will see a student work alongside Keele University and Cumbria Archives.

Find out more: Cumbria and Transatlantic Slavery, 1700-1833 - Keele University