Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs)
The quality of the University’s post graduate research degree provision has been recognised in successful applications for UKRI funded Doctoral Training Centres and Partnerships.
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The quality of the University’s post graduate research degree provision has been recognised in successful applications for UKRI funded Doctoral Training Centres and Partnerships.
The Northumbria-Sunderland Consortium is a cross-disciplinary collaboration in art and design. It emphasises the integration of professional and academic rigour in the development, production and dissemination of practice-led and applied research. The Consortium emerged as a direct result of the AHRC's collaborative BGP1 award made jointly to the Universities of Northumbria and Sunderland in 2009. A significant underpinning is its support and resourcing with matching studentships and University-level partnerships with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and National Glass Centre, two major cultural organisations in the North-East.
Northern Bridge Consortium is a Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It brings together the cutting-edge expertise and exceptional resources of Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Queen’s University Belfast, Sunderland University, Teesside University and Ulster University and their strategic partners. The Consortium offers up to 67 fully funded studentships per year to outstanding postgraduate researchers across the full range of Arts and Humanities subjects, including Creative Practice disciplines
As part of its Industrial Strategy, the government announced a National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to support additional PhD studentships with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), to start on 1 October 2018. In 2017 the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership and Northumbria/Sunderland Consortium in Art and Design jointly secured 12 awards, funded by the AHRC. In 2019, the University have secured four more studentships, this time with a specific in interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data-Driven research, in relation to the Creative Industries.
In 2016, the universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Queen’s, Sunderland, Teesside and Ulster received accreditation from the Economic and Social Research Council to form a Doctoral Training Partnership. The Northern Ireland and North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership receives funding of over £2 million a year from the ESRC to fund Doctoral Training across our partner institutions, with over 50 studentships on offer each year between 2017 and 2022.
Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (NBDTP) brings together the cutting-edge expertise of Durham University, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Queen’s University Belfast, Sunderland University, Teesside University and Ulster University.
It offers up to 67 fully funded studentships per year to outstanding postgraduate researchers across the full range of Arts and Humanities subjects, including Creative Practice disciplines.
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is the UK funding body for the arts and humanities.
Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities.
Only applications of the highest quality and excellence are funded. Research supported by this investment provides social and cultural benefits and also contributes to the economic success of the UK.
For further information on the AHRC, please see www.ahrc.ac.uk.
2008 to 2019, PhD Studentships in Art and Design were offered as part of the Block Grant Partnership, then the Northumbria-Sunderland AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Art and Design. Seventeen researchers in the areas of Glass and Ceramics, Digital Art / Curation, and Design gained bursaries and fees to research subjects including:
Erin Dickson - Looking through glass: The manipulation of light through digital design and manufacture in studio glass practice.
Dawn Bothwell - Intermedia Curating – North-East Self-Sustaining Strategies.
2017 and 2018 Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (NBDTP) and Northumbria-Sunderland Consortium in Art and Design (N-SC) jointly secured 16 awards, funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) with AHRC, including studentships with a specific in interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data-Driven research, in relation to the Creative Industries. Researchers and their industry partners include:
Georgia Smithson New Models for Collecting and Distributing Media Art (with Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art)
Simeon Soden Blockchain, Audiences and Music Distribution (with Sage Gateshead)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is the UK funding body for the arts and humanities.
Each year the AHRC provides funding from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities.
Only applications of the highest quality and excellence are funded. Research supported by this investment provides social and cultural benefits and also contributes to the economic success of the UK.
For further information on the AHRC, please see www.ahrc.ac.uk.