PhD Studentship with Bloomsbury Colleges
Apply for a PhD studentship with BAM50 PI Professor Charlotte Faircloth and Co-Supervisor Professor Lisa Baraitser.
Professor Ann Oakley’s ground-breaking Becoming a Mother project reshaped thinking about motherhood in the late 20th century, established a multi-disciplinary area of academic research, and provoked a sea-change in practice and policy around maternity care. 50 years on from the research that led to the publication of Becoming a Mother (Oakley, 1979), in a time of accelerating social change, this PhD studentship forms part of a new programme of research revisiting this landmark project.
The PhD studentship will fill an important gap in the programme by examining imaginaries of ‘involved’ fatherhood, and their interrelation with maternal subjectivity over the last 50 years.
Co-supervised by Faircloth (UCL Social Research Institute) and Baraitser (School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck), the studentship will take an inter-generational, longitudinal, and historically comparative approach, guided by the disciplinary specialisms of the supervisors (in sociology and psychosocial studies respectively).
You can download the full studentship advertisement and apply online.