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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 March 2026
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02MAR2026Writing and Presenting for Broadcast - Workshop at the BBCMon, 10:00 - 18:00Regent Street Campus, University of Westminster (10AM-12:30PM) & BBC Broadcasting House (2-6PM)Are you interested in developing skills for diffusing your research to a wider public via radio broadcasting? This one day workshop introduces skills for presenting your research for podcast or radio broadcast, including an introduction to script writing, interviewing and presentation techniques and basic technical skills for recording and editing.Read more
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05MAR2026Reading like a WriterThu, 10:00 - 12:00Online (Zoom)In this workshop we’ll look at, and practise, different ways of ‘reading like a writer’. We’ll start with efficient reading – information IS important so how to get the most out of a text. Then we’ll look at critical reading – what questions should you ask of a text? Then ‘emotional reading’ – how authors achieve their emotional purpose; and finally ‘gotcha reading’ – how authors keep us reading.Read more
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09MAR2026Uneven Ground: Who Does Not Envy With Us is Against Us with Maria FuscoMon, 10:00 - 11:30Online (Zoom)Join us for the second session of this Techne student-led event series exploring the interplay of class, place and identity. This week's seminar, we invite Professor Maria Fusco from the University of Dundee to share her award-winning practice-led research. She will be doing a short reading from her 2023 publication, 'Who Does Not Envy With Us Is Against Us', followed by a Q&A.Read more
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16MAR2026Research as Resistance 3: Writing your Researcher Positionality StatementMon, 14:00 - 15:00Online (Zoom)This practical session will help participants explore how their own social positions may impact their research. We will do this by mapping how our race, gender, sexual identities, religion, abilities, neurodiversity, age, political stance, and other identity markers situate our unique sense of knowing. This forms the foundation of the participants’ own positionality statement.Read more
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25MAR2026Theatreworks: Influence and RapportWed, 09:30 - 13:00Clore Learning Centre, National Theatre, London SE1 9PXUnderstand different communication styles, and learn how you can use them to improve your professional performance. In this one day course, you’ll build the skills and tools to help build effective relationships in the workplace, and leverage them to influence and persuade the teams and clients that you work with.Read more
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26MAR2026CDP Webinar: Talking about your ImpactThu, 13:00 - 14:00Online (Zoom)In this webinar, inspired by last years’ congress session, we’re going to look at enhancing how we talk about our impact effectively and engagingly to a range of audiences. It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day minutiae of our work, but this is a invitation to take some to reflect on (and share) your achievements, as well as think about the significance of your research activities in a holistic way.Read more
Featured Techne students
Joseph (Joe) Reynolds
University of Brighton
The music of speech: effort, expectations, effects and affect
Manuel Cini
University of Surrey
From Ashes To Eternity - The Unknown Music Compositions of the Nazi Concentration Camps
David Blanar
University of the Arts London
Immersive Theatre Process & Production: Developing a Capture Methodology for Archiving Digital Storytelling