Partnering to produce new research and outreach outcomes
Overview
Since 2024, HHC has hosted a number of PhD researchers from the University of Hull's Centre for Water Cultures. As part of their course, PhD candidates within the centre undertake an industry placement, applying their academic research knowledge and expertise to real-world situations. In the process, researchers gain new skills and experience outside the university setting, whilst those hosting placements benefit from new perspectives on existing areas of activity.
At HHC, these placements have led to valuable new research and outreach outcomes, helping us to better understand and raise awareness of the collections we hold.
Placements so far...
Felicity Wood (2024)
Felicity’s wider research explores how famine and dearth are presented in early modern literature, exploring the late dearth years of 1590s. Through an interdisciplinary process her research - mainly routed in history and literature - reveals the interwoven narratives of personal and societal responses to dearth. Read more about her work whilst on placement at HHC here.
Toby Horkan (2025)
Toby's wider research broadly aims to investigate some of the stories and representations that surround Spurn Point, as articulated in different literary, artistic and oral-historical forms, seeking to understand how humans and nonhumans encounter and engage with this changing landscape. Read more about his work whilst on placement at HHC here.