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AI & Music by Robert Laidlow
Robert Laidlow is a PhD student at the Royal Northern College of Music. His research focusses on developing methodologies for incorporating artificial intelligence into the compositional process; this usually results in new pieces of music, exploring the interaction...

Research Consultancy opportunities with Collaboration Labs
Calling all Early Career & PhD Humanities/Social Science researchers interested in collaborating with external partners & applying their research expertise for real-world impact. The Collaboration Labs programme offers paid opportunities to work part-time as...

Explore collections and opportunities at the British Library (online)
We know that 2020 has been a testing time for everyone, and that challenges are ongoing for researchers and academics at all levels. In light of the ongoing pandemic, British Library (BL) too have had to make significant changes to the Library’s established series of...
Introducing Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) by Lubaaba Al-Azamil and Samera Hassan
Lubaaba Al-Azami is a NWCDTP funded third year doctoral researcher in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool. Her research is a decolonial and feminist study of early English encounters with Mughal Indian women. She is Founding Editor of...
Our Collaborative Doctoral Awards scheme is now open for applications
Check all the resources we have created to support industry and academic colleagues in the application process. Deadline 16 October 2020. Related Address The University of ManchesterOxford RdManchesterM13 9PLUK+44 (0) 161 306 6000...
UKRI & COVID-19 Extensions
Please find below guidance on how UKRI and the NWCDTP are responding to COVID-19. The guidance depends on your stage of funding, judged by your current studentship funding end date (including any prior suspensions/extensions that have moved your original studentship...

Opportunities: Knowledge Exchange training and projects
Applications open to take part in Collaboration Labs and other initiatives aimed at PGRs looking for professional development opportunities and project funding to engage with external partners. Organised by the University of Manchester, in collaboration with...
Coronavirus guidance from the UKRI
UKRI has published its Covid-19 guidance on studentships for NWCDTP-funded students, their supervisors and NWCDTP academic and admin institutional leads.Dear ColleaguesFollowing the newly published Covid-19 guidance from UKRI, we are now able to offer some further...

Opportunity: Residential Scholarships at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice
Fondazione Giorgio Cini have announced new scholarship opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to contribute to their programming in Venice.On offer are seven scholarships for interdisciplinary projects in the field of Humanities to cover two-month...

NWCDTP secures funding to train 225 new researchers
The North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), led by The University of Manchester, is one of 10 consortia who will share more than £170 million in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) over eight years.This equates to funding...
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