Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Projects

Mau Mau’s Unquiet Ghosts: Reconciliation and local politics in Central Kenya, 1956-1969

The influence of contemporary culture on young combatants in West Africa (1989–2003), explored through the archives of ‘trans-media’ journalist Tim Hetherington

Diversifying and decolonising conflict photography: an exploration of how accompanying textual information can influence the reading and understanding of photographs

Representing and Remembering Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the Second World War

The BBC and Northern Ireland: creating and accepting a shared truth

Manufacturing reality in the war of narratives: Islamic State photo propaganda, British military influence operations, and public perception

Training the Troops: British and Imperial Armies, 1939-1945

Lee Richards began his PhD ‘If it’s printed it’s true’ in October 2023. A partnership between IWM and the University of Nottingham, the project intends to make a critical reassessment of covert ‘black’ propaganda produced by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE)

Rachel Ditchfield began her AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership ‘The Bethlem Royal Hospital During the First World War’ in January 2024. 

Katherine began her AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Project “Tracing Public Perceptions of Winston Churchill from the First World War to 2020”, a partnership between IWM and King’s College London, in October 2022. 

John Beales completed his AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD Studentship War Stories: composure and discomposure in British veterans’ communication of their experiences of the Falklands War, 1982 in 2022.