Programmes Contacts

The Programmes division incorporates funding schemes for post-doctoral research and postgraduate research and training, along with International and Knowledge Exchange activities.

For information on the AHRC’s subject coverage please click here.

The AHRC work with the RCUK Shared Services Centre (SSC) to deliver all of our funding activities.

The SSC should also be contacted if you have a query about a current award held under one of our post-doctoral schemes or AHRC’s monitoring requirements.

Je-S registration, submitting applications and maintenance requests as well as general information
Email: grants@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk
Tel: 01793 444164

Questions relating to peer reviewing (including current applications) and peer review meetings (panels, boards, etc)
Email: grantsAHRC@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk
Tel: 01793 867128

Questions on maintenance and updates to existing awards and other post award queries
Email: grantspostaward@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk 
Tel: 01793 867121

If you currently hold an AHRC post-graduate studentship, you should contact the research organisation at which you are registered and not AHRC or the SSC directly regarding any queries that you have. If you are a member of staff connected to a research organisation and you have a query regarding studentship grants, please refer to the Studentship Funding Guide. Should this not answer your query please contact the SSC post award team using the post award email address listed above.

If your query is with regard to the subject remit or AHRC strategy, please contact the individual team within Programmes.

Below are the main areas each subject team covers. For a full list of what each panel includes please see the subject coverage document.

To email a member of staff please just click on their name.

 

Team A: History, Thought and Systems of Belief (this team covers history, philosophy, religious studies and law)

  Name
Strategy and Development Manager Katherine Warren
Portfolio Manager Ian Broadbridge
Programmes Co-ordinators Jessica Clark
David Mitcham
Ian Devine
Dylan Law

Team B: Creative and Performing Arts (this team covers contemporary arts practice, theory in art, design and media, architecture, visual arts, creative writing, music, dance, drama and theatre studies)

  Name
Strategy and Development Manager Christie Walker
Portfolio Manager
Programmes Co-ordinators Sue Hart
John Watts
Morag Sullivan
Jack Caswell

 

Team C: Cultures and Heritage (this team covers art history, conservation of art and textiles, dictionaries and databases, cultural geography, archaeology, classics and library, information and museum studies)

  Name
Strategy and Development Manager Gail Lambourne
Susan Hanshaw
Portfolio Manager Paul McWhirter
Programmes Co-ordinators Jill Mustard
  Wendy Matcham
Natalia Rowlands

 

Team D: Languages and Literature (this team covers journalism, media and communication studies, American studies, cultural studies and popular culture, gender and sexuality, lifewriting, literary and cultural theory, post-colonial studies, text editing and bibliography, English language and literature, linguistics and modern languages)

  Name
Strategy and Development Manager Adam Walker
Portfolio Managers Jessica Bacon
Sam Lambshead
Programmes Co-ordinators Gemma Broadhurst
  Allie Brown

  

Knowledge Exchange (KE) Team

Head of Knowledge Exchange Susan Amor
KE Strategy and Development Manager Joanna Lansdowne
KE Policy Manager Robert Keegan
KE Co-ordinator Ellie Ricketts-Jones

 

International Team

Head of International Naomi Beaumont
EU Strategy and Development Manager Lucy Parnall
International Policy Manager Pippa Craggs
NET Heritage Project Manager Lyndsey Stoakes
Or email grants@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk 

 

Research Careers, Training and Peer Review

Head of Research Careers, Training and Peer Review Sue Carver
Peer Review College Co-ordinator (Training and Communications) Anne Olesen
Peer Review College Co-ordinator (Membership) Katie Lambert

 

Other Contacts

Director of Research Professor Mark Llewellyn
Associate Director of Programmes Gary Grubb
Associate Director of Programmes Emma Wakelin
PA to the Director/Associate Directors of Programmes Anne Barnicle
Public Affairs Manager Ben Gibbons

 

Who we are

Find out who is on our Council, who our Senior Officers are, and who sits on our advisory committees and groups in the structure section.

Activities

Find out about our latest activities including international, knowledge exchange and evaluation in the policy section.

Funded Research

Find out more about the research we have funded, see our award listings, read case studies and find out about the impact of our awards. Just go to the funded research section of the website.

Case Study - BBC Collaboration

AHRC and BBC team up to enable academics  to research the effect of online worlds on childrens social and creative skills.

Find out more about this AHRC/BBCKnowledge Exchange project.

Case Study - Creative Arts

An interactive, digital art installation inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper, is currently touring spiritual spaces of southern England.

Find out more about this Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts project.

Case Study - Picturing China

Picturing China's Modern History is an AHRC funded project making available for the first time previously unseen historical archives.

Find out more about this Research Grant Project.