Current PhD students

  • Molly Caenwyn Warren

    The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s - Present

    AHRC ‘Hidden Histories of Home’ Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, University of Westminster with Museum of the Home

  • Jade Hunter

    Home, Migration and Belonging on a Suburban Estate

    ESRC CASE studentship (LISS DTP), Queen Mary University of London with Eastside Community Heritage

  • Neela Khan

    Making and Unmaking of Home: Exploring Multi-Generational Living in East London

    AHRC ‘Hidden Histories of Home’ Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, Open University with Museum of the Home

  • Yifan Li

    Navigating Tradition and Modernity: Home-Making, Family Formation and Historic Housing in China Since the Early Twentieth Century

    Queen Mary University of London

  • Hannah Stovin

    Growing Up Queer, 1790 - 1918

    AHRC ‘Hidden Histories of Home’ Collaborative Doctoral Partnership, University of Oxford with Museum of the Home

  • India Whiteley

    Disability and the Home: Space, Domesticity and Identity in London, 1840 - 1945

    AHRC LAHP Collaborative Doctoral Award, Queen Mary University of London with Museum of the Home

Completed PhDs

  • Shabna Begum

    Stay and Fight: how a Bengali squatters’ movement claimed ‘home’ and belonging in the East End of London in the 1970s (2021)

    QMUL studentship.

  • Tessa Chynoweth

    Domestic Service and Domestic Space in London, 1750-1800 (2017)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home-work programme).

  • Jesse Connuck

    Deploying Home: US Military Homemaking Practices Since the Cold War (2024)

    The Leverhulme Trust
    (Mobile People programme).

  • Rob Dickens

    Domestic Spiritualities: New Church Spiritualists, Writing and Authority in Mid-Victorian London (2019)

  • Emily Harris

    Interfaith Connections at Home: Domestic Space, Practice and Dialogue in Contemporary London (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and Religion programme).

  • Laura Humphreys

    Domestic Labour, Metropolitan Households and the Wider World, 1850-1914 (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home-work programme).

  • Miri Lawrence

    Judaism in the Suburban Home, 1945-1979 (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and Religion programme).

  • Jane Mackelworth

    Sapphic Love in Britain, 1900-1950 in Texts, Objects and Spaces (2017)

    QMUL studentship.

  • Ruth Mather

    The Home-Making of the English Working Class: Radical Politics and Domestic Life in late-Georgian England, c.1790-1820 (2017)

    QMUL studentship.

  • Carey Newson

    Inside Teenagers' Bedrooms: a Cross-Generational Study of the Teenage Bedroom and its Material Culture (2016)

    ESRC studentship.

  • Laura Roberts

    Staying Afloat? Making Home and Creating Place on London's Canals and Rivers (2024)

    ESRC CASE studentship (LISS DTP) with the Museum of the Home and Canals and Rivers Trust.

  • Emily Vine

    Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in London, 1600-1800 (2019)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and religion programme).

  • Annabelle Wilkins

    Home, Work and Migration for Vietnamese Communities in East London (2016)

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Home and religion programme).

Have an idea for a PhD project?

If you have an idea for a PhD project that fits with the concepts and themes of the Centre for Studies of Home, or you want to hear about upcoming PhD opportunities with us, we’d love to hear from you.