Techne Secures Five More Years of Funding

Techne Doctoral Training Partnership has secured support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to provide funding for a further five years. The new round of funding will support five cohorts of students starting in 2019/20, with 57 studentships per cohort. technē is one of ten Doctoral Training Partnerships receiving funding from the AHRC as part of their commitment to postgraduate funding in the arts and humanities.

Techne – as the DTP is named in reference to the Greek term for craft – will build on its track record of supporting outstanding doctoral students pursuing the ‘craft’ of research through innovative, interdisciplinary approaches with an emphasis on creativity and practice.

The vision and the training offered by technē emphasises the interweaving of critical thinking, making, and reflexive action in the craft of research. Non-university Partners are integral to this vision: technē’s emphasis on postdoctoral careers beyond HEIs will nurture supportive exchanges with staff in a variety of Partner organisations ranging from The National Archives to Heathrow. Twenty-percent of technē studentships will be involve collaboration with, and joint supervision by, non-university Partners.

 

Photographs from the Techne Celebration Evening

Held on 14th November 2018 at the Royal Automobile Club. Photographs by Will Chamberlin.