Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship: “Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art”

In 2024, The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections and The School of Art History at the University of St Andrews were awarded Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities funding for a Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in the following project: Women, Gender, and Political Engagement at The Glasgow School of Art.

This CDA project, which was awarded to Cicely Farrer, examines gender and political engagement in and through the archive of the Glasgow School of Art from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Addressing GSA staff and students who identified as women(including trans and genderqueer practitioners), it explores how political engagements shaped their work, its display, circulation, and historicisation. Supervised collaboratively by the University of St Andrews and GSA A&C, it supports new archival research in catalogued and uncatalogued material, fosters connections with other collections and will generate new understandings of the archive’s role at the intersection of gender, politics and art education in Scotland.