LAHP Research Training

LAHP provides PhD students with an extensive program of training in practical research skills and offers opportunities to experience first-hand the workings of some of London’s greatest cultural institutions. The few years you spend as a doctoral student are a time to experiment, innovate, and make connections that may be fundamental and long-lasting as you go forward with your research and future career. We hope the courses and events that we offer will stimulate this process. The British Academy has produced a report, The Right Skills: Celebrating Skills in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, which we encourage you to read when you are thinking about your own development.

All LAHP Training sessions are open to all arts & humanities postgraduate research students at KCL, LSE, QMUL, RCA, RCM, RCSSD, SAS and UCL. Priority booking is given to LAHP AHRC-funded students.

Training Programme 2024-25

LAHP training is hosted via the Inkpath training platform (available as a web application or smartphone application). You will need to register on Inkpath to sign up for LAHP sessions.

Please refer to the steps below to correctly register with Inkpath and affiliate your profile with LAHP.

• You can access Inkpath through the web by navigating to https://webapp.inkpath.co.uk, or by opening your mobile device’s app store and downloading the free Inkpath app from there.

• Click on the “Choose your destination” dropdown and select “London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP)” from the Organisation drop down list. 

• Click on the links to both the Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy to read and ensure that you have understood them before returning to the sign up page to agree to the terms – to do this tick the box then click “Next”.

• Enter your University email address into the Email field and click “Next”.

• Enter your First Name and Last Name and click “Register”.

• You will instantly receive a message on the page notifying you that your account is ready, and receive an email with a one-time link to set your password.

• Open your email client, click the link and set your password. Your password must be eight characters long with a mix of letters, numbers, symbols and a capital letter. Click “Set Password”.

• Please note: if you have previously registered to another organisation within Inkpath with the same email address, you will use the same email address and existing Inkpath password to log in. You will not receive a new password. If you are connected to more than one organisation you will see the option ‘Switch Organisation’ in the top right corner.

If you are having any difficulties with registering, please contact the Inkpath team at info@inkpath.co.uk. For any queries regarding the training itself, please contact info.lahp@london.ac.uk.

The research training available includes the following (the live feed will take you through to Inkpath):

• Language learning (including Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian)

  [applications for 2024-25 are now closed] Information about the LAHP-CHASE–SWW funded language classes at the King’s College London Modern Language Centre can be found here

  LAHP-funded students can also apply for Language training funding through the LAHP Language Fund.

   

• LAHP Public Engagement Training and Competition

  Please refer to the Public Engagement briefing paper for full information about the sessions being offered and the Public Engagement competition: LAHP Public engagement briefing paper

  Public Engagement training schedule for 2024-25 to be announced here soon

  Public Engagement Competition

  LAHP funded students are eligible to enter LAHP’s Public Engagement Competition. Submissions should be for a PE project directly related to their primary research or in collaboration with other students around a mutual interest resonant with their research. The submission can take one of the following forms:

  • • Documentation or a sample of an individual piece of public engagement in relation to LAHP-funded research;

  • • Documentation or a sample of a group/ collaborative project undertaken in response to the training sessions;

  • • A detailed proposal of 3-5 pages for a planned public engagement project related to LAHP-funded research.

  All submissions must also be accompanied by a one-page project summary that explains how the PE activity relates to and/or extends your research; which particular audience you wanted to reach and why; and what impacts you anticipate it having.

  Submissions will be assessed on the following criteria:

  • • Clarity of the project, including aims and outcomes

  • • Link to current LAHP research

  • • Specificity of target audience, and how the project hopes to reach these groups

  • • Appropriateness of engagement method for aims and public

  • • Quality of evaluation plans.

  The deadline for applications is 1 May 2025 and the winner and runners-up will be announced at LAHP’s Annual Research Day on 15 May 2025. The first prize will be £200 in book tokens, with two runner-up prizes of £50 in book tokens.

  Competition submissions should be sent to info.lahp@london.ac.uk