Undisciplined Spaces 2026: Ensuring research makes a difference in the real world

The Arts and Humanities are the key to unlocking nuanced explorations of who we are; how we exist; where we have travelled from and how we can move forward to tackle problems that affect us as people, as part of a group, as a society. Undisciplined Spaces has been running annually as a professional development opportunity since 2023 for PGR students from King’s College London as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) awarded to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. 

This year, King’s faculty of Arts and Humanities is partnering with the Courtauld Institute of Art to extend the opportunity to their PGR students. The programme aims to embed and extend skills, opportunities, and experiences for dynamic, impactful, community-based engagement activities within the next generation of researchers. It will drive positive, meaningful social change rooted in research across local London communities.  

Undisciplined Spaces provides a unique opportunity for Postgraduate Research (MPhil/PhD) students from the faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Courtauld to co-design and deliver with local community partners a meaningful and accessible engagement activity rooted in community priorities and based on research in the arts and humanities. The ethos of Undisciplined Spaces is to give researchers the tools to bridge the gap between universities and communities and to highlight the value community-based participatory research and co-production can bring both personally and professionally. 

Participants work collaboratively in three teams to produce engagement activities, so gaining expertise on project design and delivery, and on research impact and knowledge exchange agendas. Each team is partnered with a London-based community organisation. Our partners are: Arts Network, Positively UK, and Release. 

Find out more:

If you wish to find out more, please attend one of our information sessions. Please register for the events on Ticket Tailor.

To find out more about the details of the programme, you can do so by clicking here.

To apply:

If you wish to apply to the programme, you can do so by clicking here.

 Applications are due 12:00 Monday, 6th April 2026.

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