Queen Mary receives AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award to encourage collaboration and excellence in arts and humanities
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced that Queen Mary University of London will receive the Doctoral Landscape Award.
Only 50 universities across the UK have received the funding, which has been allocated through a formula-based approach. The Queen Mary award will support 25 full-time PhD students across 5 cohorts (five per year, including two match funded studentships per year, supported by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) with studentships starting in October 2026. These studentships will contribute towards the AHRC’s three-fold strategy for post-graduate research funding, alongside Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships and Doctoral Focal Awards and will underpin the strength and stability of the arts and humanities research ecosystem at Queen Mary.
AHRC Executive Chair Professor Christopher Smith said:
“The AHRC doctoral landscape awards provide flexible funding to allow universities to build on existing excellence in research and opportunities for innovation across the arts and humanities.
“They will support the development of talented people and, alongside our other doctoral schemes, contribute to a vibrant, diverse and internationally-attractive research and innovation system.”
Each Higher Education Institution receiving Doctoral Landscape Awards will be part of an AHRC-supported regional hub.
Queen Mary University of London, Birkbeck College, King's College London, Royal College of Art, SOAS University of London, The University of Westminster, University College London, University of the Arts, have all secured Doctoral Landscape Awards and will form the London Hub. This will enable these leading London-based institutions to continue the thriving relationship and collaborative community of doctoral students producing world-class arts and humanities research. Queen Mary looks forward to participating fully and enthusiastically in the training hub activities as they unfold.
Dr Joanna Cohen, Reader in American History at Queen Mary said:
“We are delighted to be one of the new members of the Doctoral Landscape Award scheme. This award offers Queen Mary an exciting opportunity to train a new cohort of Arts and Humanities scholars in this country. These awards will support those who are the future of these disciplines and we look forward to opening our doors wide to ensure that we have the best range of talented doctoral candidates to train and support in the coming years.”