Introduction
Research the cultural relevance of landscape and environment
The landscape and environment have cultural significance as an area of public concern, scholarly research and artistic creativity. This programme is designed to enrich our understanding of both by bringing together researchers from varied disciplines with a wide range of approaches. In order to know more about the ways the world has been imagined, experience, designed and managed, we need to produce work which is critical and creative, collaborative and communicative.
Background
Whether we are expressing complex ideas and feelings about beauty, belonging, access to resources of our relationship with the past and the future through nature, the landscape and environment are the medium through which we often try to make sense of the world and the people's place in it.
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The Programme
This £5.5 million programme runs for five years from September 2005 to August 2010 with three aims:
- develop understanding of landscape and environment in distinctive, innovative and engaging ways through research projects of the highest quality and international significance;
- extend the scope and deepend the focus of prior enquiry for a range of historical periods and places, and;
- engage in dialogue with current debates on landscape and environment in the public domain.
The Programme focuses on the following themes:
- images, values and knowledge;
- representing, marking and meaning;
- time, space and narrative;
- settlement and movement;
- elements and ecologies, and;
- authority and access.
New Competitions for Funding
Proposals are now being invited for Networks under a call entitled Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change. The aim is to establish distinctive, innovative and engaging arts and humanities research perspectives on environmental change through networks of the highest quality and international significance.
The network activities funded under this competition will be expected to run for between six months and one year, and each award can be up to a value of £30,000 fEC.
Further details can be found on the Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change page.
Programme Contacts
Enquires about the scholarly content of the Landscape and Environment Programme, its aims, objectives and themes should be directed to:
Professor Stephen Daniels, Programme Director, 0115 951 5445
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
For full details about the programme including contact details and information about funded projects please go to the Landscape and Environment website.
Landscape and Environment Programme Specification (128kb)
Background to the Programme
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.