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Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
Techne supports outstanding students pursuing the ‘craft’ of research through innovative, interdisciplinary and creative approaches across the range of the arts and humanities through the following universities:
Brunel University, London | Kingston University | Loughborough University, London | Royal Holloway, University of London | University of Brighton | University of Roehampton | University of the Arts London | University of Surrey | University of Westminster
Techne DTP has now run its final studentship competition and the students starting in October 2025 will be the final cohort.
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Forthcoming events for June 2026
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03JUN2026Creative Writing Retreat DayWed, 10:00 - 15:30University of Westminster, Regent Street campus, training room UG02Calling all Creative Writing PhDs! This student-led event organised by Techne researcher Helen Williams (Brunel University) is a focused day designed to reignite your creativity, whatever stage you are at in your PhD. It consists of a practical workshop led by published author and Techne alumna, Dr Katie Hall, followed by a troubleshooting session with successful novelist, Dr Helen Cullen, 'the Book Doctor'. Helen is a Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. There is time set aside to liaise with other creative writing doctoral researchers and a quiet writing session for you to focus on the creative work of your PhD. There will also be the option of a one-to-one coaching session with Dr Katie Hall.Read more
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08JUN2026One-to-one Careers AppointmentsMon, 09:30 - 12:30ZoomConfidential, one-to-one careers appointments with Darcey Gillie, Techne's dedicated Careers Consultant.Read more
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11JUN2026Surviving Peer Review in Historical and Literary StudiesThu, 10:00 - 15:00Room 3, Stewart House, University of London, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5 DNHands-on workshops and expert guidance on understanding what peer reviewers and editors are looking for and how to get published in academic journals.Read more
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11JUN2026One-to-one Careers AppointmentsThu, 14:00 - 15:30ZoomConfidential, one-to-one careers appointments with Darcey Gillie, Techne's dedicated Careers Consultant.Read more
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12JUN2026Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity SymposiumFri, 09:30 - 17:00Kingston University, 55-59 Penrhyn Rd, London, Clattern Lecture TheatreAleksei, Maxim, Julia and Anca's student-led symposium reconsiders the relationship between science, politics and aesthetics. It is conceived as an invitation to rethink transdisciplinarity under the increasingly urgent, deteriorating, and transitional conditions of the present. It takes as its point of departure the question of how relations between disciplines, and collaboration across them, might be reconfigured in response to problems that increasingly exceed the grasp of any single field. In-person, with the possibility of hybrid attendance; lunch provided.Read more
Featured Techne students
Max Annoot
Kingston University London
'Two men on a summer night, with nowhere to call their own': ‘Affective Precarity’ in British Gay Men's Contemporary Fiction
Rhiannon Smith
University of the Arts London
The Theatricalization of Class in Performance, Policy and Practice.
Amy Austin
Kingston University London
Fragmented Bodies, Fragmented Stories: Exploring Endometriosis Through Multidisciplinary Creative Practice to Challenge Cultural Narratives of Women's Pain