PhD Scholarship - Kinky Boots: Manufacture & Identity of Women’s Fetish Footwear
PhD Scholarship - Kinky Boots: The Manufacture and Identity of Women’s Fetish Footwear
The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield are pleased to announce a PhD studentship in partnership with the Bishopsgate Institute and the UK Leather and Fetish Archive.
This research will challenge assumptions about fetish culture by delving into lived experience of fetish footwear fashion. It will explore style and culture that has developed through the manufacture and wearing of women’s shoes and boots. The student will be interested in a practice-based or practice-led PhD, resulting in the production of new archival material, historical research and artefacts including sourced, designed and/or produced.
The student would be able to draw on the wealth of knowledge and support offered by the UK Leather and Fetish Archive and the University of Huddersfield to produce a doctoral thesis that engages with oral histories, archival material, and fetish ephemera that develops on existing research surrounding the manufacture of women's boots/shoes for the fetish market and the fetishism around them.
This project will be supervised by Dr Charlotte Goldthorpe who specialises in practice, based around the telling and sharing of stories. She works with methodologies such as narrative-led making in areas such as lost love, oral history production, immersive research, fetish, old age inclusion and wellbeing.
This project will run through the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture
Further details of Charlotte Goldthorpe’s work can be seen on Pure.
This project offers a VC fee-waiver with an annual £3000 bursary for 3 years and is open to home candidates.
For further information, email: C.M.Goldthorpe@hud.ac.uk
To apply:
Closing date: 7th June 2024
Applications should be accompanied by a proposal outlining the project, samples of written work, and examples of creative work or other materials relevant to the scope of the scholarship. Please indicate clearly on the online application form that you are applying for the PhD Scholarship - Kinky Boots: The Manufacture and Identity of Women’s Fetish Footwear