Programmes Contacts

The Programmes division incorporates funding schemes for post-doctoral research and postgraduate research and training, along with International and Knowledge Transfer 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. All queries regarding eligibility for funding and applications in progress should be directed to the SSC team dealing with your subject area using the contacts below:

Team A (History and Thought)
Team Email: AHRCHistoryandThought@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk  
Team Phone: 01793 867832
 
Team B (Creative and Performing Arts)
Team Email: AHRCCreativeAndPerformingArts@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk  
Team Phone: 01793 867830

Team C (Culture and Heritage)
Team Email: AHRCCulturesandHeritage@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk  
Team Phone: 01793 867831

Team D (Language and Literature)
Team Email: AHRCLanguagesandLiterature@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk  
Team Phone: 01793 867833

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.

If you are a current postgraduate award holder please contact the team responsible for your institution at AHRC, providing as much detail about your enquiry as possible. Team contact emails are available here.

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 Barkwith
Portfolio Manager Ian Broadbridge
Programmes Co-ordinators Lou Matter
  Phillippa Harrop
Simon Glasser

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 Lucy Parnall
Portfolio Manager Paul Lansdowne
Programmes Co-ordinators Sue Hart
Jessica Clark

 

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
Portfolio Manager Karen Buchanan
Programmes Co-ordinators Jill Mustard
  Wendy May

 

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 Katherine Barkwith
Portfolio Manager Jessica Bacon
Programmes Co-ordinators Sam Lambshead
  Gemma Broadhurst
Allie Brown

  

Knowledge Transfer (KT) Team

Head of Knowledge Transfer Susan Amor
KT Strategy and Development Manager Joanna Pollock
KT Policy Manager Robert Keegan
KT Policy Co-ordinator Laura Colman

 

International Team

Head of International Caroline Baylon
International Policy Manager Pippa Craggs
NET Heritage Project Manager Polly Haywood
Or email international@ahrc.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) Paul McWhirter

 

Other Contacts

Director of Research Shearer West
Associate Director of Programmes Gary Grubb
Associate Director of Programmes Emma Wakelin
PA to the Director/Associate Directors of Programmes Selene Robinson

 

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 transfer 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.