Diasporas, Migration and IdentitiesDiasporas, Migration and Identities

Introduction

 Breaking new ground in public understanding

People, ideas and objects have always been on the move. Despite this historical trajectory, issues around immigration and identity politics (in host and sending societies) are never far from media and public policy debates. 

Background

This five year £5.5 million trans-disciplinary programme was launched in response to the need for a multi faceted insight into the culture of diaspora and migratory communities. The programme presents the opportunity to bring together research on traditions, languages, religions, material culture, visual and performing arts. 

The Programme

The challenge for this research programme is two-fold: to further our historical and cultural knowledge about diasproas and migratory communities, and to break new ground in how we study, theorise and model them.

The aims of this five year programme are to research, discuss and creatively share knowledge related to the impact on identity, culture, the imagination, place, emotion, politics and our human tendency to assemble into communities. In order to stimulate the wide participation and contribution of arts and humanities scholars, several different schemes were created to fund research projects, workshops, networks, conferences and seminars. Interdisciplinary engagement and collaborative work with partners in the public sector, the cultural sector and the wider community were also important elements.

Programme Contacts

Enquires about the scholarly content of the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme, its aims, objectives and themes should be directed to: 

Professor Kim Knott, Programme Director, 0113 343 3646

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 and also queries regarding current awards, should be directed to the SSC team dealing with your subject area using the contacts page.

Find out more

 All funding for Diasporas, Migration and Identities has now been allocated but full details about the programme, including contact details and past funding opportunities are on the Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme website

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.

What's New

Find out about our latest events including:

Cultures of Consumption

The AHRC/ESRC funded Cultures of Consumption programme was a major multi-disciplinary programme which ran from 2002 to 2008.

Find out more about this Cultures of Consumption programme.

Activities

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

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.

Funding Initiatives

Religion and Society, Science and Heritage, Beyond Text, Landscape and Enviornment.

Find out about all these and our other funding initiatives in the funding opportunities section of our website