Students on the project:
| He Xiaowan | China Scholarships Council doctoral scholar |
| Lu Guanhua | Ph.D. student |
| Aine Poland | NINE DTP 1+3 doctoral scholar & research assistant |
Former students on the project:
| Sinead Burns | Exhibitions placement student |
| Katie Leeper | NLHF placement student: ‘In Search Of Robert Hart’ |
| Dr Yorgos (Georgios) Moraitis | Ph.D.: ‘Sino-foreign jurisdictional disputes: Robert Hart, the Maritime Customs and international law in China, 1863-1908’ (Marie Skłodowska-Curie SPARK) RHPWP2: ‘Extraterritorial law as a colonial structure: Sir Robert Hart and his independence from British legal authorities in China (1870-1873)’ |
| Jordana Maguire | Research assistant (GIS) |
| Teng Anqi | Photographic collection placement student |
| Dr Tsai Chih-hui | Ph.D. ‘Robert Hart’s Relationship with the late Qing bureaucracy’ |
| Dr Zhang Yiran | Ph.D.: ‘The role of the Maritime Customs Service in Chinese domestic taxation and the shaping of modern China, 1858 to 1931’ (China Scholarships Council) |