Award holders

2014-15

AHRC TECHNE Doctoral Awards

• Ian Cantoni, Camp de Rivesaltes: A Topography of French Cultural Memory.
• Lars Cornelissen, The ignorant dèmos: the incompatibility of neoliberalism and democracy.
• James O'Leary, Interface Architecture: Defining new modes of architectural representation and proposition for politically contested architectural sites.
• Fearghus Roulston, Justa Nother Teenage Rebel: Belfast Punk and the Troubles, 1974-1979.

• Janet Aspley, Hillbilly Deluxe: Rhinestone Tailoring, Country Music and Change in the American South 1947 – present.
• Jocelyn Bailey, The Politics of Social Design.
• Jennifer Roberts, First World War Women Munitions’ Workers, their dress and the legacy of images in historical discourse.

• Afxentis Afxentiou, The Politics and Ethics of Drone bombing in historical context.
• Jane Dunlop, Radical collaborations: Performing contemporary geographies in virtual places.
• Struan Gray, Illuminating the Shadows: The Interplay of Culture, Memory and Space in negotiating the trauma of the Chilean Dictatorship.
• Melayna Lamb, War, Policing and the State: New Forms of Violence?
• Tessa Lewin, Understanding LGBTQ activism in South African in an era of digital culture and social media.
• Ekua McMorris, What is the relationship between the physical landscape and the body constructed as Other? And how can this be redefined through text and photography?
• Tania Messell, Representing the industrial design profession on the world stage, 1957 to the present.
• Joel Roberts, Textual Ethics, Postmodern Fiction, and the Global City Space. 

2013-14

AHRC Block Grant Partnership (Capacity Building) awarded to the Brighton-Chichester consortium

4 Doctoral Awards

• Elizabeth Bruchet, Vulnerability and the Archive.
• Kimberley Chandler, On skeuomorphism: the continuity of a type-form in modern material culture.
• Celena Monteiro, The Changing Faces of Dancehall Queen Competitions: The Impact of Virtual Performance Sharing in Globalised Contexts.
• Meleneia Warwick, Inclusive Arts and Meaningful Engagement for Adults with PMLD.

2 Research Preparation Masters

• Merceded Nunez, MA Fine Art
  
• Maya Wassell Smith, MA History of Design and Material Culture
  

2 Professional Preparation Masters at the University of Chichester

• Clare Billington, MA Performance Dance
  
• Glen Brown, MA Creative Writing
  

2012-13

AHRC Block Grant Partnership (Capacity Building) awarded to the Brighton-Chichester consortium

1 Doctoral Award

• Helen Mears,  Making difference visible: the rehabilitation and mobilisation of traditional cultural forms by young Kachin people since 1994.

1 Research Preparation Masters

• Emily Mae Bowles, MA Architectural and Urban Studies

2 Professional Preparation Masters at the University of Chichester

• Rebecca Butler, MA Performance Dance
• David Frankel, MA Creative Writing

1 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

• Kelly Duggan (with Action Rural Sussex), Envisioning the Future Village
  

2011-12

AHRC Block Grant Partnership (Capacity Building) awarded to the Brighton-Chichester consortium

3 Doctoral Awards

• Jonathan Baggaley, An investigation, through photographic practice, of the vernacular portrait studio as a space through which photography as a psychic apparatus can itself be imagined
  
• Bridget Millmore, Tokens of affection: re-engraved coins, sentiment and the poor, 1740-1840
  
• Jackie Lightfoot, School seating design: a user-centred approach
  

3 Research Preparation Masters

• Beth Dawson, MA Performance and Visual Practices MA
  
• Laura Murphy, MA Sequential Design and Illustration
  
• Melaniea Warwick, MA Inclusive Arts Practice
  

3 Professional Preparation Masters at the University of Chichester

• Karen McCarthy-Woolf, MA Creative Writing MA
  
• Tara Baker, MA Performance Dance
  
• Chloe Bishop, MA Performance Dance
  

2 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards

• Tom Wilson (with the Design Museum), Design Strategies and the Representation of the Commonwealth: from Institute to Museum
• Liz Farrelly (with the Design Museum), The Role Of The Design Museum In The 21st Century: National And International Perspectives

1 AHRC Research Grant Doctoral Award

• Ignacio Acosta, Traces of Nitrate: history and photography between Britain and Chile, 1879-1914
  

2010-11

3 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards

• Leah Armstrong (with the Chartered Institute of Design), Towards an Atlas of the Design Professions in Britain 1930-2010
• Joanna Weddell (with the Victoria & Albert Museum), Disseminating Design: museums and the circulation of design collections, 1945 - present day
• Catherine Speight (with the Victoria & Albert Museum), Learning at the Interface: Opportunities and Barriers to University and Museum Collaborations for Innovative and Creative Learning
  

3 AHRC Doctoral Awards

• Birgit Hofstaetter, Changing Worlds: W.G. Sebald, Gorgio Agamber and the subject of memory 
• Anthony McIntosh, Public monuments: memory, manifestation and the accumulated significance of place
• Matt Smith, Can craft objects be identified as queer or be made to “queer” a museum or gallery space?
  

1 AHRC Research Preparation Masters Award

• Liz Burden, MA Cultural History, Memory & Identity
  

2009-10

4 AHRC Doctoral Awards

• Tom Ainsworth, Improving exercise devices for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in the hand
• Jody Boehnert, The Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy
• Ruth Cribb, Workshop traditions and the making of sculpture in the early twentieth century: Eric Gill, assistants and assistance between 1909 and 1940
• Anna Vaughan Kett, Quaker Women and the Material Culture of Abolition in Britain: the Wedgwood Slave Medallion and Free Produce Cotton 1780s – 1830s

2008-09

1 AHRC Research Preparation Masters Award

• Cheryl Roberts, MA History of Design & Material Culture
  

1 AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award

• Juliet Wallage, MA Sequential Design & Illustration

2007-08

2 AHRC Doctoral Awards

• Jane Hattrick, The Life and Work of the London Couturier Norman Hartnell:  Issues of Design, Business, Royal Patronage and Consumption 1924 – 1979
• Katherine Ladd, A Handmade Future: exploring the impact of design on the production and consumption of contemporary African crafts as a tool for sustainable development
  

3 AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Awards

• Katherine Rushton, MA Sequential Design & Illustration
• Fiona Blair, MA Sequential Design & Illustration
• Daniel Harrison, MA History of Design & Material Culture

2006-07

1 AHRC Professional Preparation Masters Award

• Millicent Young, MA Sequential Design & Illustration
  

1 Studentship from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Design (CETLD) at the University of Brighton and the V&A and the Higher Education Academy’s Art, Design and Media Subject Centre (ADM-HEA)

• Torun Kjolberg, Current visual research practice and the use of museums in fashion and textile design higher education in England
  

2005-06

1 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Victoria & Albert museum

• Verity Clarkson, The cold war emigre exhibit in Britain: cultural exchange, diplomacy and trade c. 1945-75
  

1 AHRC Doctoral Award

• Sorcha O’Brien, The Shannon Scheme: electricity, technology and modernisation in the Irish Free State, 1924-32
  

1 Kenneth Edwards Research Studentship in Anglo-Japanese Design Studies

• Katy Arbuckle, Usability in mobile phone design: a comparative study of the relationship between product, user interface, network services and young adult users (aged 18-30) in Britain and Japan