Introduction
Generating new understanding into the ways we communicate
With increased movement and cross-fertilization between countries and cultures, and the acceleration of global communications, we have entered an era where not only the written word, but also performances, sounds, images and objects can be circulated more rapidly and widely than ever before. In response to this, the AHRC has created Beyond Text, a strategic programme to generate new understandings of, and research into, the impact and significance of the way we communicate.
Background
Beyond Text is a programme that has been developed by AHRC following a two year period of consultation with the arts and humanities research communities. Introduced in 2007, it aims to support a multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners drawn from Higher Education, museums, galleries, libraries, business, policy, media, technology and the law to explore the ways in which communication is articulated, transmitted, received and controlled. It also aims to enhance the connections between those who make and preserve works, and those who study them.
The Programme
Beyond Text centres on five thematic, interdisciplinary areas: Making and Unmaking; Performance, Improvisation and Embodied Knowledge; Technology, Innovation and Tradition; mediations; Transmission and Memory. These themes provide a framework to investigate the formation and transformations of performances, sounds, images, and objects in a wide field of social, historical and geographical contexts, tracing their reception, assimilation and adaptation across temporal and cultural boundaries. The programme has a budget of £5.5 million over 5 years and runs from 2007 to 2012.
Programme Contacts
Professor Evelyn Welch, Programme Director, Tel: 0207 882 8463
Lucy Parnell, Programme Manager, tel: 0117 987 6628
Sue Hart, Senior Awards Officer, tel: 0117 987 6633
Find out more
Further details about the programme are in the programme specification or on the programme website.
Programme specification (87kb)
Funding Opportunities:
Please note that this Student-Led Initiative round will be the last funding call under the Beyond Text Programme.
Funded Research:
- 10 Small Grants - Beyond Text
- 9 Large Research Grants - Beyond Text
- 15 Research Networks and Workshops - Beyond Text
Postgraduate awards made:
- 6 Collaborative Research Studentships - Beyond Text
- 9 Student-Led Initiative - Beyond Text
About AHRC initiatives
This programme is one of the AHRC programmes which opens up opportunities for research that has intellectual and wider cultural, social or economic urgency and that the Council considers is best supported by concentrated investments. It will also assist researchers working on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas which do not fit into conventional funding opportunities.