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Dr Nicole Vitellone from the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology will play a leading role in the newly awarded Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet Doctoral College.
The University of Liverpool has secured funding through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Focal Awards to lead this new project, delivered in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire, the Royal Northern College of Music and ten regional organisations. Aligned with the AHRC’s theme of ‘arts and humanities for a healthy planet, people, and place', the Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet Doctoral College will train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers.
Building on over a decade of work by the University’s Centre for Health, Arts, Society and Environment (CHASE), the College explores how care is co-produced across human and non-human communities, with “craft” defined as broad expertise shaping interdisciplinary research for real-world impact.
Dr Vitellone, AF Warr Senior Lecturer in Sociology, will work with project partners, as well as University of Liverpool colleagues from Health and Life Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Science and Engineering, to deliver doctoral training to the next cohorts of AHRC-funded PhD researchers.
Speaking about the award, Dr Vitellone said: "The Doctoral Focal Award is recognition of the quality and impact of interdisciplinary, collaborative research and engagement with non-HE partners in the Centre for Health, Arts, Society and Environment (CHASE). The Doctoral College Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet will build on CHASE's interdisciplinary research driven expertise and broaden doctoral training provision for PhD students across a range of disciplines".