The RAF Museum and King's College London are currently inviting applications for a fully fundedCollaborative Doctoral Award Studentship to research, write, and complete a dissertation on ‘Gender, Culture and Class Structure: The influence of women on the RAF’s development in the early 20th Century’.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the London Arts & Humanities Partnership, the project will examine the role of gender on the RAF’s culture and class-structure. Created in 1918, the RAF deliberately sought to create ‘new traditions’, its own unique culture (distinct from the older British armed services), and to promote ‘air mindedness’ to the British public. Historical narratives of the RAF have marginalised the role of gender in this process.

Who is it for: Candidates should fulfil the appropriate King’s College London admissions requirements for a PhD – Bachelor’s degree with 1st class or 2:1 Honours degree and a Master of Arts with Distinction or Merit in a related subject.

Benefit: Full academic fees and maintenance stipend; support of KCL and the RAF Museum as host institutions.

Deadline: 27. January 2023

Apply here: rafmuseum.org.uk