Landscape South, AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award
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Landscape South is an AHRC-funded hub for doctoral training in the arts and humanities, one of the AHRC's Doctoral Landscape Award Hubs, led by Royal Holloway, University of London, and bringing together eleven universities in the South East and South West of England: Royal Holloway, Oxford Brookes University, the Open University and the universities of Brighton, Bristol, Exeter, Kent, Oxford, Reading, Southampton and Sussex. Funded from March 2026 to September 2034, it works with partners outside higher education including Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Museum of London, The National Archives, the Royal National Theatre, the British Film Institute, the Natural History Museum, Historic Royal Palaces, Royal Geographical Society and the Crafts Council. Each member university offers three AHRC-funded studentships a year for five cohorts, running from 2026. The stipend terms vary between institutions. Landscape South aims to deliver an ambitious and personalised training programme which nurtures both research-related skills and broader career-focused competencies, and to become a diverse community of scholars and practitioners which serves as a beacon of arts and humanities achievements and advocacy. A core hub team based at Royal Holloway runs the programme with a Management Committee and PGR Forum drawn from all member universities. The Hub builds on the networks and expertise of earlier doctoral training partnerships in the region, including CHASE, OOC, SWWDTP and Techne.
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Founding year
2026
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Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX
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The Natural History Museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within 5 main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum… read more about Natural History Museum
London
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography. Members advance geography and support geographers in the UK … read more about Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
London
The mission here at Kew Gardens and Wakehurst is to understand and protect plants and fungi, for the wellbeing of people and the future of all life on Earth. Earth is the only planet in the universe t… read more about Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond
The National Archives collect and secure the future of the government record, from Shakespeare’s will to tweets from Downing Street, to preserve it for generations to come, making it as accessib… read more about The National Archives
Richmond
The British Film Institute (BFI) describes itself as a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. Founded in 1933, the BFI is… read more about British Film Institute (BFI)
London
Partner Universities
Oxford Brookes University
The Open University
University of Brighton
University of Bristol
University of Exeter
University of Kent
University of Oxford
University of Reading
University of Southampton
University of Sussex
Additional Partnerships
Museum of London; Royal National Theatre; Historic Royal Palaces; Crafts Council
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2026-11-02 18:13:43