The ‘Crafting Care’ Leadership Team
The University of Liverpool leads the ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College, and the Director and Manager of the college are both based at Liverpool:
- Director: Professor Josie Billington
- Manager: Hayley Meloy
The best way to contact the Director or Manager is to email craftingcare@liverpool.ac.uk
Institutional Contacts
Each university within the AHRC ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College has an academic Institutional Lead and a key administrative contact who can support you with local queries about institutional-specific matters (e.g. annual progression or university policies), or about maintenance stipend or fees payments, as these are handled locally.
University of Lancashire
- Institutional Lead: Dr Kathryn Jarvis (kjarvis1@lancashire.ac.uk)
- Key Administrative Contact: Clare Altham (cealtham@lancashire.ac.uk)
University of Liverpool
- Institutional Lead: Dr Matthew Bradley (lina0738@liverpool.ac.uk)
- Key Administrative Contact: Dr Julie McColl (joolz@liverpool.ac.uk)
Royal Northern College of Music
- Institutional Lead: Dr Tom Parkinson (tom.parkinson@rncm.ac.uk)
- Key Administrative Contact: TBC
Interdisciplinary Theme Leads
The AHRC ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is shaped around four interdisciplinary themes, each of which has an academic lead with expertise in the theme:
- Care as Craft Theme Lead: Dr Georgia Petridou (petridou@liverpool.ac.uk)
- Ecologies of Care Theme Lead: Dr Rebecca Geary (R.Geary@liverpool.ac.uk)
- Creativity and Care Theme Lead: Dr Nicole Vitellone (njv@liverpool.ac.uk)
- Curating the Future Theme Lead: Dr Sam Solnick (sns@liverpool.ac.uk)
AHRC 'Crafting Care for People, Place and Planet' Doctoral Focal College 