Postdoctoral research opportunities
Historic Royal Palaces offers opportunities for postdoctoral researchers through our funded research project and schemes including the AHRC Early Career Fellowships in Cultural and Heritage Institutions.
When postdoctoral research and fellowship opportunities are available at HRP they will be advertised here.
Our postdoctoral researchers
Find out more about our current postdoctoral researchers and the projects they are working on in the profiles below.
Dr Bin Guo
PDRA on Kensington Enrichment Project
About
It’s a big day for the Tower of London: 30,000 ceramic poppies are arriving from the Imperial War Museum ahead of this year’s display. Project Manager Ali Richardson is overseeing the monumental task of ensuring their safe delivery via the busy Tower Wharf. Once safely delivered, Chief Yeoman Warder Rob Fuller will plant the first poppy during a live TV broadcast.
Meanwhile, YW AJ Clark is preparing to hand over her role as Bar Manager of the Beefeaters’ private pub, The Keys. YW Barney Barnett will be taking up the mantle—but not before AJ shows him the ropes. How will he handle hosting his first event in one of London’s most exclusive venues?
Finally, Curator Charles Farris is developing a new interpretation of the Tower’s Medieval Palace. His research explores not only the Kings and Queens who lived in these spaces, but also the people who kept the palace running. Alongside refreshed wall paintings and new tapestries, the space will feature a range of artefacts, including a very delicate medieval fish trap.
Select publications
Guo, B., ‘“We’re Very Relieved to Be Coming Back”: Families Navigating Museum Visits under the Impact of Covid-19’. Journal of Education in Museums, 43 (2024), pp. 40-53.
Dr Jamie Ingram
Position: PDRA on 'Graffiti at the Tower of London'
About
Jamie graduated from the University of Southampton with a doctorate in medieval archaeology in 2022. He is interested in social history and archaeology focusing on historic graffiti and human behaviours around informal mark making. He is currently the postdoctoral researcher looking at the historic graffiti at Tower of London and working on developing a recording and research strategy focusing on the graffiti and understanding its meaning and significance.
Select Publications
Ingram, J., ‘Liminal space and liminal place: the medieval church porch’, in Z. Hadromi- Allouche and M McKay (eds.), Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality (Lanham and London: Lexington Books, 2023), pp. 79-98.
Ingram, J., ‘Historic graffiti and potential interpretation at Chichester Cathedral’, Journal of Church Archaeology, 21 (2022).
