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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would be extremely grateful if you could send on the below to anyone who you think might be interested in a fully funded PhD studentship exploring
<b><a href="https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/studentships/zoology-museum-the-university-of-cambridge/">Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean</a>:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The University of Cambridge and its Museum of Zoology are pleased to announce a fully-funded collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2024 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Scheme.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University Museum of Zoology</a> and
<a href="https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/collections/herbarium-2/" target="_blank">
Cambridge University Herbarium</a> have exceptional collections from South Asia and the Mascarene Islands (taken to include Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues). These collections have underpinned scientific research into evolution, extinction and natural history,
but their human social stories have yet to be explored.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Together with the team of supervisors, the successful candidate will develop a project to interrogate the history of these collections or some parts of them with respect to colonialism and Indigenous, local and indentured practices and contexts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This region is of massive importance to the European colonial story. It has some of the world’s most celebrated animals and plants, from tigers to dodos and rhododendrons and tea. Such specimens in our collections represent how colonial histories and environmental
histories became tied to the same processes, and how natural history practices reinforced and were reinforced by the workings of empire. This project will shed light on the entwined human and environmental costs of the colonial project.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This project will be jointly supervised by <a href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-sujit-sivasundaram" target="_blank">
Professor Sujit Sivasundaram</a> and <a href="https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/jack-ashby" target="_blank">
Jack Ashby</a> together with <a href="https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/singh" target="_blank">
Dr. Charu Singh</a> and <a href="https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/samuel-brockington" target="_blank">
Professor Sam Brockington</a>. The student will undertake research at both the University Museum of Zoology and the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, while also having access to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the University’s
Herbarium. They will become part of the wider cohort of CDP-funded students across the UK.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Funding for each studentship will be for four years’ duration with the expectation that this will include development activities, as applicable to meet the student’s needs, and the thesis will be submitted within the funding period. The project can be undertaken
on a full-time or part-time basis.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We welcome applications from both International and UK (home) students. We want to encourage the widest range of potential students to apply for this CDP studentship. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds
as they are currently underrepresented among doctoral students in these research areas. As this project focuses on South Asia and the Mascarene Islands, candidates applying from countries in South Asia and the Indian Ocean are especially encouraged. This is
especially so, given the project’s formal aim to generate dialogue on its key research questions between the global South and Europe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>More details, including how to apply, can be found here: <a href="https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/studentships/zoology-museum-the-university-of-cambridge/">
https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/studentships/zoology-museum-the-university-of-cambridge/</a>
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<p><b>The deadline for applications is 12<sup>th</sup> May.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p>All the best<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Jack<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assistant Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University Museum of Zoology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Downing Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">CB2 3EJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+44 (0)1223 761344<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/jackdashby" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">@JackDAshby</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/ZoologyMuseum" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">@ZoologyMuseum</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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