CHASE Partners
CHASE works with partners organisations in a number of capacities, including through placements, Collaborative Doctoral Awards, and through workshops and training events.
The CHASE Partnerships Strategy 2024 - 2027 is built on three pillars: Employability, Impact and Knowledge Exchange, and Internationalisation.
The CHASE Partner Network has been set up to bring partner organisations in the membership into conversation with CHASE and each other, so as to enable interdisciplinary and intersectoral co-creation, collaboration and research in a range of ways and to co-create training and development opportunities for CHASE researchers. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining the network.
For all matters related to working in partnership with CHASE, please contact j.upton@sussex.ac.uk.
CHASE Strategic Partners
CHASE benefits from a range of strategic partnerships. These partner organisations enrich the research culture of CHASE through placements, workshops, and other doctoral training events. Our strategic partners are:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing is one of the UK's leading independent book publishers. Founded in 1986, it has a broad portfolio that includes both a high profile fiction arm as well as divisions specialising in academic and professional publications. Its flourishing academic unit, for instance, produces over 1,000 publications every year in the humanities and social sciences (including the prestigious Arden Shakespeare and Methuen Drama imprints). Bloomsbury has been ambitious and forward-thinking in expanding its remit, through a growing internationalisation and particularly through its development of digital spaces and technologies (for instance, e-books, apps, and on-line libraries), securing its reputation for both quality and innovation.
Bloomsbury Publishing website.
The Brilliant Club
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity that works with schools and universities across the UK.
Our Mission The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from under-represented backgrounds progressing to highly selective universities. We do this by mobilising the PhD community to share its academic expertise with state schools.
What We Do In pursuit of our mission, The Brilliant Club runs two core programmes; The Scholars Programme and Researchers in Schools.
The Scholars Programme The Scholars Programme recruits, trains and places doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in schools to deliver programmes of university-style tutorials, which are supplemented by two university trips.
For more information or to find out how to get involved with The Scholars Programme, please click here.
Researchers in Schools Researchers in Schools recruits PhD graduates, places them as trainee teachers in schools and supports them to develop as excellent teachers and research leaders committed to closing the gap in attainment and university access.
Detailed information about the Researchers in Schools programme is available here.
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The British Library
The British Library represents one of the largest collections of written content in the world, with a historical range that runs from some of the very earliest texts in existence to the present day and with material from a vast array of cultures and countries. The BL is constantly working to bring this rich cultural heritage to wider audiences, whether through a commitment to making material available on-line through extensive digitisation projects or innovative research-led public engagement activities (both physical and on-line). It is at the forefront of developing new ways to both engage public audiences and support the work of researchers.
The Eccles Centre for American Studies: the Eccles Centre is dedicated to promoting and supporting research in American Studies. Its home in the British Library enables access to the foremost collection of American textual and audio material outside the United States. With a dynamic schedule of activities each year, as well as exceptional national and international links, Eccles is the UK's leading hub for those working in this field.
Canterbury Cathedral
As well as being one of the most significant religious places in the world, Canterbury Cathedral is also part of a World Heritage Site and a centre for historical and cultural research. Its Archives and Library contain collections of national and international importance. The Cathedral works to showcase these widely, engaging public audiences through both physical and on-line means whilst also actively supporting researchers in exploring this material. Its renowned facilities for conservation in glass and stoneware provide unique opportunities for engaging with material culture in a historical context. Recently, the Cathedral has been successful in securing Heritage Lottery Funding for the major new Canterbury Journey project, which will enable exciting new programmes including exhibitions, workshops, schools' outreach, site development, and the creation of a new Welcome Centre.
Canterbury Cathedral website
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
The ICA values academic research both as a means to improve access to the institute’s rich history and an opportunity to collaborate on the development of new perspectives on the contemporary moment.
We welcome collaborations that support young researchers in their work and provide opportunities to experiment with different modes of public dissemination.
From 2015 onwards, the ICA has entered into a partnership with the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) to offer training and development placements for arts and humanities PhD researchers.
The first project in this collaboration involves the appointment of PhD student Eleanor Careless as Project Coordinator for the ICA Cinema Retrospective, Luis Buñuel: Aesthetics of the Irrational. Eleanor contributes to a panel discussion on Buñuel and the Spectre of Terrorism alongside the development and delivery of the season in the ICA Public Programme.
Beyond this professional development placement, CHASE is also the academic partner for the entire retrospective season.
Learning on Screen
Learning on Screen (formely The British Universities Film & Video Council) was formed in 1948 and aims to make moving image and sound as important in education as the written word. The organisation promotes the production, study and use of moving image and sound for teaching, learning and research across all subject disciplines and provides access to broadcast television and radio programmes under licence. BUFVC is at the forefront of sector research and leads on the pedagogical framing of audio-visual materials and provides high quality, reliable material, which is enriched by supported metadata. BUFVC is a centre of specialist knowledge and expertise and provides advice, support and training. Services include BoB, TRILT, the Moving Image Gateway, the Shakespeare Database and a number of UK and European research projects.
National Portrait Gallery
Founded in 1856, the National Portrait Gallery holds the largest collection of portraiture in the world and is one of the leading institutions for research that engages with this genre. Through its wide-ranging programmes, which include not only displays, exhibitions, and original research, but also educational and outreach activities as well as publishing and digital engagement, the NPG works to increase appreciation and understanding of portraiture across all media. Whilst high-profile national and international programmes are central, the NPG also works through a number of regional partners and is increasingly utilising on-line platforms. Research is key to the life of the NPG, and is integrated throughout its activities. This includes conducting major research projects that are interdisciplinary in scope, as well as support for wider research (for instance, through its renowned Heinz Archive (del s) and Library) in its subject areas.
National Portrait Gallery Website
Shakespeare's Globe
Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouses for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education. Together, the Globe Theatre, Globe Education and Globe Exhibition & Tour seek to develop and enhance the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance. Shakespeare’s Globe has collaborated with the University of Sussex over a number of years on university courses, research opportunities and student placements
Victoria & Albert Museum
Founded in 1852, in the aftermath of the Great Exhibition and the zeal for new creations that this generated, the V&A is the world's leading museum of art and design. It has curatorial departments for Asia; Furniture, Textiles and Fashion; Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass; Word and Image; Theatre & Performance; and the Museum of Childhood. The Museum is home to a thriving research culture and it works with experts in Exhibitions, Learning and Interpretation, and Conservation and Collections Management to improve access to and understanding of its collections.
Vitae
Vitae is the global leader in supporting the professional development of researchers, experienced in working with institutions as they strive for research excellence, innovation and impact. We are a non-profit programme, part of the Careers Research & Advisory Centre (CRAC) Ltd, with over 50 years’ experience of enhancing the skills of researchers. We strengthen our members’ institutional provision for the professional development of researchers through research and innovation, training and resources, events, consultancy and membership.
CHASE Knowledge Exchange Hub
CHASE also works with organisations, regionally, nationally, and internationally on projects such as placements and doctoral training events.
You can find a list of these organisations, find out more about our work with external partners, and enquire about becoming a CHASE partner at our Knowledge Exchange Hub.The CHASE Knowledge Exchange Hub is a resource created for students, academic supervisors, and external organisations to highlight and facilitate knowledge exchange activites. You can find it here: CHASE Knowledge Exchange Hub