PhD Studentship: Visual & Material Mythologies of Sherlock Holmes

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – The Visual and Material Mythologies of Sherlock Holmes, 1887-present day with Portsmouth City Council and University of Chichester (Faculty of Social Science and Humanities)

This is a fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship.
The studentship can be studied either full or part-time.
1 October 2026 start

About this opportunity
The Portsmouth City Council and the University of Chichester are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2026 under the AHRC’s https://www.ahrc-cdp.org/2025-ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnership-studentships/

The project is to use the Portsmouth Museum and Library Conan Doyle Collection to analyse the visual and material remediations of Sherlock Holmes.

This project will be jointly supervised by Professor Hugo Frey and Laura Weston and the student will be expected ...