New Doctoral Training Partnership announced for arts & humanities postgraduates

UCL (University College London), King's College London, and the School of Advanced Study, University of London (SAS) have today announced that they have been awarded over £18 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to form the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP); a joint venture between the three institutions. In addition to the AHRC's commitment to LAHP, the three partners will be investing over £12.5 million to fund studentships and training. The partnership represents one of the most important developments in arts and humanities postgraduate researcher provision in recent decades and it will form one of the most significant postgraduate training schemes in the arts and humanities in the UK. The London Arts and Humanities Partnership will fund and train approximately 400 postgraduate students over five annual cohorts from October 2014, as well as deliver a training environment open to over 1,300 postgraduate research students. The new scheme will offer postgraduate research students access to an unrivalled diversity of research expertise as well as opportunities for research and training through the consortium's international and other partners. UCL President and Provost Professor Michael Arthur thanked the AHRC for its support of the partnership, which has brought together UCL, King's and SAS, collectively creating a world-class centre for the training of research students in the arts and humanities. He particularly noted the innovative nature of the new provision, with extra resources provided to train students in public engagement and knowledge transfer, ensuring that the research conducted within LAHP will have the greatest possible reach.