» Announcing CC-EE, the new AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Programme for the East of England

CCC is pleased to share that Collections and Communities in the East of England (CC-EE), an AHRC-supported Collaborative Doctoral Programme has been funded. This programme, led by our co-chair Dr Neal Spencer at the Fitzwilliam Museum, brings together the University of Cambridge Collections, Norfolk Museums Services, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, and the Colchester and Ipswich Museums to host 15 new collections-based PhD projects, with the first 5 beginning in Autumn 2024.

A banner showing some of the different collections forming the CC-EE consortium. Represented L-R: Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery (a pot from the Must Farm Exhibition), Norfolk Museum Services (Three people examining a projected schematic), Cambridge University Botanic Gardens (a woman touching green tree leaves), Colchester & Ipswich Museums (two people looking at tombstones in Colchester Castle), Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (a family completing an activity sheet in the museum)

Just some of the collections which are joining the CC-EE consortium. Represented L-R: Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Norfolk Museum Services, Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, Colchester & Ipswich Museums (photo credit Rodger Tamblyn Photography & Colchester Museums), Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

The full press release can be found at https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/university-collections-and-regional-partners-secure-major-ahrc-funding-to-boost-phd-research-with

Announcing CC-EE, the new AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Programme for the East of England

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