Post by Jaideep Gupte

Doctoral study is one of the most formative stages in a research career — and students thrive when they are part of a living intellectual culture. In this joint blog, Anna Vignoles CBE FBA and I reflect on the value of placing Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) doctoral studentships within long-term Leverhulme-funded centres: environments built around shared questions, collaborative energy, and arts and humanities approaches that insist on depth, imagination and intellectual courage. At a time when the humanities are too often asked to justify themselves in narrow terms, these centres offer a different proposition — sustained enquiry as generative, formative, and vital. Christopher Smith UK Research and Innovation Emma Kane Stella Power Allan Sudlow The Leverhulme Trust Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Durham University Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War Rights Lab, University of Nottingham Department of War Studies School Security Studies Doctoral College at the University of Leicester University of Leicester Space Park Leicester Leicester Law School Centre for European Law and Internationalisation - CELI Rossana Deplano Frances Burstow