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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...
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...