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Thomas Chapman Scholarship
Enhance the knowledge, understanding and public awareness of the risks to life and property presented by work at sea.
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Duration
This project's duration was 7 years
Value of grant
£166,000
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The Thomas Chapman Scholarship comprises two PhD projects managed by the University of Hull in partnership with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation's Heritage Centre centred around the risks to life and property presented by work at sea.
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Overview
The Lloyd's Register Foundation Thomas Chapman Scholarship comprises two PhD projects managed by the University of Hull in partnership with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation's Heritage & Education Centre. Retired structural engineer Peter Phillipson is investigating ship design in the mid-19th Century through the lens of Lloyd's Register Survey Reports. History MRes Sam Wright is focusing on safety measures in the distant-water trawl fisheries since 1900. Both projects draw on historic connections between Lloyd’s Register and the port of Hull.
The aim of the projects are to enhance knowledge, understanding and public awareness of the risks to life and property presented by work at sea, and to examine how those risks can be managed through behavioural and policy changes.
Impact
- Enhanced Public Understanding of Risk: The impact events that are central to this project's agenda are specifically designed to meet one of the Foundation's key objects – instilling a better understanding of the risks, incentives and regulations that have formed a critical part of the relationship between human societies and the marine environment over the centuries.
- Improved Educational Outcomes: In funding these Doctoral Training Programme, the Foundation will improve knowledge and understanding of the complex interplay between technological, economic, and cultural drivers in the development of maritime activity since the mid-19th Century. This will be achieved through case study research based on the archives held by the Heritage Centre, through the dissemination to scholars and practitioners of the original findings of the two investigations and, ultimately, through the introduction of the results of the research into future teaching modules and decision-making processes.
