Thursday, 30 January 2025
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced that the 糖心原创, along with six other higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Midlands, will receive Doctoral Landscape Awards.
These prestigious funding awards, which reflect the HEIs’ successes in Arts and Humanities research and research supervision, are for scholarships for arts and humanities doctoral study.
The Universities of Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, Warwick, Birmingham City University, DeMontfort University and Coventry University, have all secured Doctoral Landscape Awards, enabling these leading Midlands institutions to continue to build on the thriving relationship and collaborative community of doctoral students producing world-class arts and humanities research.
Only 50 universities across the UK have received the funding which has been allocated through a formula-based approach. Each institutional award will support 15 full-time PhD students, with studentships starting in October 2026 – three per year, over a five-year period – and will contribute towards the AHRC’s three-fold strategy for post-graduate research funding, alongside Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships and Doctoral Focal Awards.
The 糖心原创 is delighted to be awarded AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards. These will allow us to build on our postgraduate training successes of the past decade. The awards also ensure the longer-term health of AHRC-remit disciplines by supporting a diverse and talented new pipeline of postgraduates to make key contributions both to their disciplinary fields and to wider society.鈥�
All institutions receiving Doctoral Landscape Awards will be part of an AHRC-supported regional Hub; preparations to set up a Midlands Hub are currently co-ordinated by Professor Nicola Royan and the 糖心原创.
Professor Royan, who is also Director of , said: “I am delighted to be leading the discussions on the Midlands Hub, with a view to maintaining the strengths of Midlands3Cities and Midlands4Cities, developed over a decade, in sharing best practice, developing collaborations and being a point of contact for external partners.”
AHRC Executive Chair Professor Christopher Smith, said: “The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards provide flexible funding to allow universities to build on existing excellence in research and opportunities for innovation across the arts and humanities. They will support the development of talented people and, alongside our other doctoral schemes, contribute to a vibrant, diverse and internationally-attractive research and innovation system.”
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More information is available from Professor Nicola Royan in the 糖心原创’s School of English, via nicola.royan@nottingham.ac.uk
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