Techne Institutions and Contact Information
Welcome to those of you who are planning to attend the Techne Open Evening on Wednesday 28th September 2022 (this has now taken place) Please register on Eventbrite.
This year's online Open Evening has been designed to give prospective applicants information about the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership in addition to the training and partner engagement opportunities that are available to Techne students. We will also explain the various stages of the application process.
This page is designed to give further information about the nine Universities that make up the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership, their application deadlines and contact details. You will have the chance to request information/contact details of specific Supervisors at those Techne institutions after the Open Evening.
http://www.techne.ac.uk/how-to-apply-for-a-techne-ahrc-studentship/open-evening-further-information
We look forward to meeting you.
Prof. Harriet Hawkins (Techne Director)
Brunel University London
Brunel University has a long established and distinguished social and political science faculty based in subject disciplines such as Media, Communications, Sociology, Politics, History and Anthropology. Around the turn of the century, Brunel added an arts faculty to its campus through the absorption of the West London Institute of Higher Education. Programmes with significant staff expertise in English, Theatre, Film and TV, Music have been added to with exciting developments in recent years in Games and Creative Writing. A particular strength of these programmes has been the blended integration of theory and practice to produce reflexive practitioners.
A flavour of Brunel faculty interests and expertise may be found in the recent conference organised for Techne students, On Experience .
Faculty staff in the above programmes sit within the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences and Techne students will become members of one of the College’s two interdisciplinary research centres, Global Lives or the Institute of Communities and Society.
This year CBASS begins new initiative, a series of internal interdisciplinary themed lectures and discussions by faculty staff for all doctoral students on Keyworks by various thinkers.
Applicants applying to Techne through Brunel will have dedicated supervisory support and benefit from advice and review processes led by Brunel’s Techne Lead co-ordinator Professor Michael Wayne, to ensure wide input into the application. .
Techne: Arts and Humanities Research Council | Brunel University London
Studentships in Arts & Social Sciences via the TECHNE2 Doctoral Training Partnership (brunel.ac.uk)
Kingston University London
You may find the following links helpful:
Research degrees at Kingston School of Art
Loughborough University London
Loughborough University London is an inspiring postgraduate campus located on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Established exclusively for postgraduate study and research, Loughborough University London combines influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators to deliver one of the best postgraduate experiences the UK has to offer.
Our techne students are based in two of our Institutes – the Institute for Design Innovation and the Institute for Media and Creative Industries. We specialise in research on design futures, inclusive design, design for social change, communication for social change, digital ethnography and the future of the creative industries.
Current techne students are researching a range of topics including: the use of public space, art and community activism, with a focus on graffiti in Birmingham and Barcelona ; contemporary performance poetry communities and their use of digital media; retail futures in the circular economy with a focus on sustainable production and consumption systems; meaning making practices and the role of aesthetics in design, focusing on the sense of touch; politicising public engagement through critical design; exploring the relationships between women of colour and books through storytelling personal collections; exploring creative repertoires for public participation through design activism; and, a CDA with the British Library exploring inclusive access, discoverability and the use of the Library’s digital educational resources for young people.
You may find the following links useful:
The Institute of Design Innovation should go here - https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/institutes/design-innovation/
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries should go here - https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/institutes/media-creative-industries/
University of the Arts London
UAL is one University made up of 6 colleges and 22,000 students from across the globe. We are in the top 2 in the world for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings 2022)
UAL has a vibrant community of researchers. We offer practice-base and theoretical research programmes leading to MPhil or PhD. There are currently over 300 Post graduate research students at UAL who enjoy full access to our college resources, training and support.
UAL currently has 30 techne funded students who are based across all of our Colleges and Institutes – Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon, Central Saint Martins, Creative Computing Institute, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion. All PGR students are fully integrated into the UAL Research Culture
UAL Colleges and Institutes: https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges
UAL Research Centres: https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/research-centres
UAL Application processes and deadlines:
The deadline for those wishing to apply to Techne is 9 am on 9 November 2022
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/phd-and-mphil-degrees
The UAL deadline for techne applicants to submit initial application to the techne portal – 13 January 2023
https://www.arts.ac.uk/study-at-ual/fees-and-funding/phd-and-mphil-funding
Book for UAL PGR Open Event 10 October 2022: https://www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/research-degree-open-day
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Research Degree Open Day | UAL We would like to invite prospective research degree applicants to attend a virtual open day to find out more about Research Degrees at UAL and to meet staff and students involved with the research degree programme across the 6 Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Wimbledon College of Arts. |
University of Brighton
The University of Brighton
has been part of the city of Brighton & Hove since 1859, starting as a
school of art in the kitchens of the Royal Pavilion and growing to become the
diverse and inclusive institution it is today. We have some 19,000 students and
2,600 staff studying and working at our various campuses. Subjects taught here
range from medicine to engineering, psychology to illustration, sport science
to English literature. Our students are part of a dynamic, diverse and creative
community that embraces partnership working and that makes a positive
difference to society.
Here at Brighton we
currently have 37 fully funded Techne students, working in our rich, vibrant
academic community. We are looking for motivated and engaged
individuals to apply for Techne studentships and join us, studying across our
research strengths in the Arts and Humanities. Applicants will be educated to
Masters level, or equivalent, and meet AHRC eligibility criteria for funding.
Your application will go through a two-stage process, being considered first by
the University of Brighton Doctoral College.
Follow this link for
information about how to apply, who to contact and timeline for applications (this is updated early autumn for the following year's timetable):
Technē Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC) Open Call
(brighton.ac.uk)
University of Roehampton
The University of Roehampton is pleased to be a member of technē, a consortium of nine institutions in London and the South-East that form an AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP).
technē is comprised of nine academic partner institutions: Royal Holloway University of London (co-ordinator), University of Roehampton, Brighton University, Kingston University, University of Surrey, University of the Arts London, University of Westminster, Brunel University and Loughborough University, London; and fifteen cultural partner organisations. Please visit technē to find out more about the aims and opportunities of the consortium.
https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/graduate-school/techne-ahrc-studentships/
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is in the top 25% of all UK research in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 and is home to some of the world’s foremost authorities in the humanities, geo-humanities, the performing and dramatic arts and law. Postgraduate Research Students who study for a PhD at Royal Holloway become part of a close-knit, multi-cultural research community located on a historic campus within easy reach of London.
As the managing institution for Techne, Royal Holloway supports excellent disciplinary and interdisciplinary research that is driven by innovative partnerships. This aligns with the Techne focus of supporting the production of interdisciplinary research through the co-creation of knowledge for example through Collaborative Doctoral Awards, which are run with external partner organisations.
Techne students at Royal Holloway join a thriving and innovative research culture and are based in the Schools of Humanities (including Classics, English, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and History), Performing and Digital Arts (including Music, Media Arts, and Drama, Theatre and Dance) and the Department of Life Sciences and the Environment (including the Department of Geography)
The wide range of current research projects that Techne students at Royal Holloway are working on include subjects such as ‘A ‘decolonial green’ aesthetic: how roots reggae reflects and constructs Caribbean and Caribbean diasporic listeners’ practices and attitudes’, ‘The Author is Present: Contemporary Bio-Memoir (2010-202), and ‘Black, British and Feminist: The History and Legacy of Ceddo, Sankofa and the Black Audio Film Collective’. All PhD students have a dedicated supervisory team with support and advice on Techne being provided by the Directors of Postgraduate Education and the Doctoral School.
Full details on how to apply to Royal Holloway for your Techne studentship can be found at this web page. This video captures the community at Royal Holloway.
University of Surrey
The University of Surrey is a leading university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey in the South East of England, UK. The Doctoral College, situated within the University of Surrey, provides innovative and world-class doctoral training, with an outstanding research environment that connects supervisors, doctoral researchers, and research support staff within a multi-disciplinary approach, making the University of Surrey the ideal place to start your research career. We are also committed to addressing inequalities in participation in doctoral degree programmes, ensuring that our Doctoral College is accessible, inclusive and representative of the society we live in.
The Doctoral College offers numerous community-building initiatives alongside comprehensive training and mentoring programmes, including the Building Research Communities funding competition, an annual Doctoral College Conference, Researcher Cafes, the Postgraduate Society and a ‘Coffee Lottery’ to help new researchers meet. The Guildford School of Acting also provides cutting-edge theatre research, performance spaces and industry connections. The two following networks are of particular interest to our techne researchers:
- 23 Things International is a Surrey-led programme connecting researchers in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand, introducing online tools for research and professional profile building.
- The Surrey Arts and Humanities Research Group is PGR-led and cross-disciplinary, sharing work-in-progress through seminar series, socials and blogs.
You can find out more about how to apply for a Techne studentship at Surrey here. The deadline for applications is 9th December 2022, and you can contact doctoralcollege@surrey.ac.uk with any queries.
University of Westminster