10 awful PhDs funded by UK taxpayers

Full list of the PhDs mentioned:

1. Queer Whores: Embodied Knowledge and Performance Practices in Sex Work

2. Cruising the cut: Lesbian histories of mobility and queer futures of boat-dwelling on the UK’s canals

3. Animals as builders: Exploring animal buildings as sites of agency, rights, and politics

4. “Lesbian?”... “She no Lebanese. She Punjabi!”: Tracing the experiences of working-class, queer British South Asian women, 1970s to 1990s

5. rub rub rub rub rub rub brush brush quiver oh hello, you: Queer Captioning as Material

6. Curating a Diasporic Archive in the Elsewhere: A Critical and Creative Exploration of Recovering, Dismantling, and Re-Imagining the Diasporic Space

7. ‘Cleaving’ Queer Aesthetics: Contemporary Indian Performance at the Intersections of Caste, Gender and Sexual Politics.

8. Echoes in the Anthropocene: ecological sound art and ecosocialist activism in Brazil

9. “Non-vegetarian” food: Mapping contestations over the consumption of meat, fish and eggs in the culinary cultures of Ahmedabad, India

10. Fragmented Bodies, Fragmented Stories: Exploring Endometriosis Through Multidisciplinary Creative Practice to Challenge Cultural Narratives of Women’s Pain

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How did Nadia Yahlom receive taxpayer funding for her PhD?

PAID) 10 of the most WTF PhDs - funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Examples of taxpayer-funded AHRC studies