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Collaborative Doctoral Research
We are part of the Science Museums and Archives Consortium, which each year awards three AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral studentships. We also partner with other Doctoral Training Partnerships.
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The geographical museum
The geographical museum: making knowledge through objects
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Mobilising chocolate
Mobilising chocolate: plants, pathogens, and prospectors, 1840-1950
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Mapping fossil colonialism
Mapping fossil colonialism in Asia, c.1810–1914
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Ethnographies of border mapping: retracing the field through the geographical archive
Ethnographies of border mapping: retracing the field through the geographical archive
![A historic map of the Arabian Peninsula](https://cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/l4uldt5e/translating-place-map-1-1.png?height=288&rxy=0.5%2C0.5&width=348)
Translating place
Orthography and the problem of place names at the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1919. Research by Beth Williamson
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Colonial science and military service
The West India Regiments and circum-Atlantic networks of knowledge, c.1815-c.1900. Research by Catriona Sharples
![Black and white landscape showing ice, snow and mountains](https://cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/33ldmgeh/cda-student-halley-bay-inbody-s0026037.jpg?height=288&rxy=0.5%2C0.5&width=348)
Halley Bay
Instruments of scientific governance? Historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present. Research by Alice Oates
![A plaster and wooden model showing sand dune formation](https://cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/yhjjnlxj/20170830_rgsannualconference_12-03-54.jpg?height=288&rxy=0.5%2C0.5&width=348)
Relief models
The art of earth-building: Placing relief models in the culture of modern geography. Research by George Tobin
![A historic sea-route map of the Arabian coast, showing ships and placenames](https://cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/plej0d4w/s0013726.jpg?height=288&rxy=0.5%2C0.5&width=348)
The Indigenous map
Native information, ethnographic object, artefact of encounter. Research by Joy Slappnig
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Circulating Arctic Science
Arctic science in circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c.1880-1914. Research by Peter Martin
![Asian women looking at historic photographs in the Foyle Reading Room](https://cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/zgsdjfae/family-history-img_2516.jpg?height=288&rxy=0.49874686716791977%2C0.2727856884772041&width=348)
Family History, Place and Diaspora
Locating family, community and national geographies. Research by Chandan Mahal
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Geography in print
The cultural production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge at the Royal Geographical Society 1830–c.1930. Research by Ben Newman
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Expeditionary film
Geographical Science and Media Culture. Research by Jan Faull
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Instruments of exploration
Technologies of Geographical Enquiry, c. 1860-c. 1939. Research by Jane Wess
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Armchair geography
Speculation, Synthesis and the British Culture of Exploration. Research by Natalie Cox
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Geographical projections
Lantern-slides and the making of geographical knowledge at the Royal Geographical Society c.1885-1924. Research by Emily Hayes
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Terra incognita
Women on Royal Geographical Society-supported Expeditions, 1913-1970. Research by Sarah L. Evans
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Weather imaginaries
The exploration of Indlandsis: a cultural and scientific history of ice sheets to 1970. Research by Jean de Pomereu
![Historic black and white photograph of Sherpa climbers with mountaineering equipment on Mount Everest](https://cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/vmpksfu0/hidden-histories-lowri-banner-s0001176.jpg?height=288&rxy=0.5%2C0.5&width=348)
Hidden histories
Local knowledge & indigenous agency in the history of exploration : Studies from the RGS-IBG collections. Research by Lowri Jones