Research School for Economic and Social History

Positions

Collaborative Studentship PhD (LSE ESRC and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) – deadline 14 January 2026

The LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, offers a Collaborative Studentship PhD, commencing in September 2026, on the project ‘Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century’. Decolonisation, the process by which colonies gained independence in the mid-twentieth century, was a global process which led to self-governance,…

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