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
Bin completed her doctorate in Childhood Studies and Museum Education at University College London. Her doctoral research investigates family interactions during young children and their families’ unstructured museum visits. Bin’s research interests include children and childhood, second-generational immigrant children, plant-human relationships, and collective knowledge making in a more-than-human world.
Bin currently works on the Kensington Enrichment Project, exploring how Kensington Palace and local schools can form a partnership that responds to the needs and expectations of students and their families, teachers, as well as the project team members at Kensington Palace.
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).
