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Consultation for a new DTP Sustainability Toolkit to start in March
The climate emergency is the most important issue facing us today. Without fast, thorough, and structural change we will not be able to avert catastrophe. This crisis affects all of us. For those working in the Arts & Humanities, how might we respond? What kind of...

How to… Organise a Conference (Online): A Dozen ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’
This week’s blog post comes courtesy of Naomi Adams, one of the organisers of our last NWCDTP conference, Research, Resilience, Resurgence. Here she writes about her experience of organising an online conference and gives few tips of dos and don'ts on successful...

A new podcast project to showcase NWCDTP research
NWCDTP Alumna Dr Nia Davies explores the insights and questions raised by a collaborative project with the British School at Rome as part of the 2021 Collaboration Labs programme that has made a fine arts archive digitally accessible to the public for the first time....

British Library Placement Scheme: Our PhD researcher Jemima Paine shares her experience.
NWCDTP-funded researcher Jemima Hodgkinson is completing her PhD at the University of Liverpool. Her research compares black-edited periodicals published in New York and Paris during the interwar period, 1919-1932. In this piece she reports about her placement...

Antony Hall’s art residency at Gallery Oldham
NWCDTP-funded researcher Tony Hall talks about his artistic residency at Gallery Oldham, where he explored the secret life of moss to raise awareness of the unseen nature in the local environment and to discuss climate change. During my three month placement...

Can we research Rome and art history without setting foot in the city or touching the contents of the archive?
NWCDTP Alumna Dr Nia Davies explores the insights and questions raised by a collaborative project with the British School at Rome as part of the 2021 Collaboration Labs programme that has made a fine arts archive digitally accessible to the public for the first time....

NWCDTP Researcher on the team launching digital exhibition at the British School at Rome
New digital exhibition illuminating the undiscovered work and stories of influential Twentieth Century artists is launched at the British School at Rome, partner of the Collaboration Labs programme, recently completed, which saw the participation of several NWCDTP...

Application now open for Collaborative Doctoral Awards
We welcome applications to our 2022-23 Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme. CDAs offer academics and non-HEI organisations from the private, public or third sectors the opportunity to develop a bespoke, three-year PhD project with funding awarded to the host...

Collaboration Labs Project Excellence Award winner announced
A research project supporting the personal and professional development of neurodiverse young people wins Collaboration Labs Project Excellence Award 2021. A team of Postgraduate researchers have created a first of a kind, neurodiverse-friendly tool, in partnership...

PhD Careers Week 2021 is coming
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for this year’s PhD Careers Week, a week-long series of events to support Humanities and Social Sciences PhD researchers in making career choices and explore a variety of post-PhD opportunities. The themes that...
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