Technē AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP STUDENTSHIPS 2025
Technē is now welcoming applications for fully-funded studentships across the arts and humanities beginning in autumn 2025.
3.5 years full-time (7 years part-time)
£20,622 per annum stipend full-time (£10,311 per annum part-time)
The University of Westminster is one of the ten universities that make up the AHRC-funded technē Doctoral Training Partnership.
Technē supports outstanding students pursuing the ‘craft’ of research through innovative, interdisciplinary and creative approaches across a range of the arts and humanities. For more information on technē and the kinds of projects it funds, please see: www.techne.ac.uk
The studentships include maintenance and fees for 3.5 years for a full-time student, or 7 years for a part-time student at 50% of the full-time studentship level each year (pro rata if you have already started your PhD). Studentships are open to students who have already started their doctoral study but they must have at least 50% of the funded period of an AHRC award (usually 18 months full-time) remaining at the time they start their scholarship.
International students are eligible to apply for studentships but will be expected to pay the difference between the home and international fee rates themselves (as the studentship will only cover fees at the home rate, plus the stipend).
The 24/25 home fee rate is £5,800 and the international fee rate is £15,450. Therefore, international students will be expected to pay the difference between these fee rates themselves.
Students must comply with the AHRC eligibility criteria and other terms and conditions available on the AHRC’s webpage.
Entry criteria are normally at least a 2:1 in a relevant first degree and a masters degree. Applications should include a research proposal and all necessary additional documents.
If you are interested in applying for a place at the University of Westminster supported by a Techne studentship, we strongly recommend you first contact a member of the academic staff in the relevant area and talk to them about your proposal. Contact details are:
Dr Ozlem Koksal (Photography, Film, Visual Arts and Creative Media): koksalo@westminster.ac.uk
CREAM is particularly interested in applications exploring environmental questions, propositions and answers as they impact and relate to the global majority as well as projects exploring questions of sustainability, ecology and environment as it relates to art and technology.
We also welcome proposals that re-think past knowledge and reflexively engage with archives as trajectories and counter hegemonic historical discourses.
The deadline for applications is 5pm (GMT) on Thursday 5 December 2024.
Interviews will be held week commencing 13 January 2025.
If the University decides to nominate your application to Techne, it will then be put forward by the university to the Techne review panel. The final decision on the allocation of studentships rests with the Technereview panel. Applicants must hold an offer with the University of Westminster before their application can be nominated to Techne.
If you are applying for a studentship you may be asked to complete a fee assessment form as part of your application.
Please see westminster.ac.uk (www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/studentships) for more information and to make your application.