This blog is about Material Witness, an interdisciplinary training programme for PhD students and early career researchers in the seven universities that make up the CHASE consortium (The Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths, the Open University, and the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent and Sussex).

The programme’s main aim is to provide training in techniques and methods for examining artefacts of various kinds, and at the same time to encourage researchers to share ideas about the relationships between materials and meaning across (and beyond) the spectrum of humanities disciplines. In 2013/14, approximately sixty participants are taking part, supported by funding from the AHRC’s ‘Collaborative Skills Development’ scheme.

The programme is convened by Alixe Bovey at the University of Kent, in close co-operation with Susie Nash and Scott Nethersole at the Courtauld Institute.

As it grows, the blog will feature posts by the programme’s participants, organisers, and event organisers.

Alixe Bovey

Convenor and blog orchestrator, Material Witness