The latest awards for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Research Grants (Standard and Early Career) scheme have just been made, from panel meetings that took place in March.
Eighteen projects have been successful in getting funding and over £5 million is being invested in this research after a very competitive review process.
Speaking about these awards the Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts said:
“The arts and humanities make a valuable contribution to the social fabric of the UK, providing greater meaning and shape to our lives. I’m delighted to see such a fascinating range of projects about to get underway – they are testament to the breadth and quality of research taking place in British institutions.”
The AHRC Chief Executive, Professor Rick Rylance said of the latest awards:
‘These projects demonstrate once again the variety of arts and humanities research in the UK. Covering law, history, belief, language and creativity from Sanskrit to cinema, from the prehistoric past to modern television, their range is extraordinary. They will bring gains in scholarship, museum exhibition and, hopefully, in the quality of life of autistic children’.
Some of the topics to be researched will include:
• Seeing if drama-based activities may hold the key to helping autistic children communicate, socialise and play imaginatively (University of Kent)
• an exhibition on the Hajj (British Museum)
• Islands, maritime connectivity and the ‘western seaways’ of Britain, 5,000-3,500 BC (University of Liverpool)
The majority of these eighteen projects average three years to undertake and most will commence in late 2011.
The AHRC Research Grants scheme is intended to support well-defined research projects enabling researchers to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other individuals and organisations through the conduct of research. This programme provides grants for projects with a full economic cost (fEC) between £20,000 and £1,000,000 for a varying duration up to a limit of 60 months.
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AHRC Media contact: Jake Gilmore, Communications Manager, 01793 416021; j.gilmore@ahrc.ac.uk
Notes to Editors:
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Each year the AHRC provides approximately £100 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes hundreds of research awards ranging from individual fellowships to major collaborative projects as well as over 1,100 studentship awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.
AHRC Research Grants Scheme
Announced July 2011- from March 2011 Panel meetings
The Research Grants Schemes are intended to support well-defined research projects enabling individual researchers to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other individuals and organisations through the conduct of research. This scheme is not intended to support individual scholarship.
Early Career awards are marked *
Northumbria University Professor Donald MacLeod MacRaild
Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in North America in Transatlantic Perspective, 1760-1950
£240,939.96
University of Strathclyde Professor Barry James Rodger
Competition Litigation Across the EU 1999-2009: A comparative Analysis, Focusing on Consumer Redress
£106,405.60
King's College London Dr Mark Textor
Word Meaning: What it is and what it is not.
£314,826.75
University of Cambridge Dr Vincenzo Vergiani
The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the Sanskrit manuscript collections of the University of Cambridge.
£725,271.82
The British Museum Dr Venetia Porter
Hajj Exhibition
£253,998.26
University of Oxford Professor Chris Wickham
From Byzantine to Ottonian empires: Venice, Ravenna and Rome, imperial associations and the construction of city identity, c. 750-1000.
£321,844.93
University of St Andrews Dr Frank Muller
Heirs to the Throne in the Constitutional Monarchies of Nineteenth-Century Europe (1815-1914)
£523,301.15
Middlesex University Dr Joseph Corkin *
Making Europe in their Image: Communities of expertise and the shaping of transnational governance
£88,001.93
University of Glasgow Professor John Caughie
Early cinema in Scotland, 1896-1927
£583,980.40
Birmingham City University Professor Ronald Woodley
The Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition
£400,223.04
University of Kent Dr Nicola Shaughnessy
Imagining Autism: Drama, Performance and Intermediality as Interventions for Autistic Spectrum Conditions
£344,187.28
University of East Anglia Dr Brett Mills
Make Me Laugh: Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry
£329,368.92
University of Exeter Dr Nicola Thomas *
Situating Craft Guilds in the Creative Economy: Histories, Politics and Practices
£159,908.55
University of Liverpool Dr Duncan Garrow *
Stepping stones to the Neolithic? Islands, maritime connectivity and the 'western seaways' of Britain, 5000-3500 BC
£160,726.84
Queen Mary, University of London Professor Catherine Nash
Living with the past at home: domestic pre-habitation and inheritance
£292,116.09
University of Strathclyde Dr Faye Hammill
Magazines, Travel and Middlebrow Culture in Canada 1925-1960
£218,363.80
University College London Dr Johannes van de Koot
Antecedent Priming in Sentences with Neutral Scrambling: Evidence from Dutch and German
£95,951.20
University Of Lincoln Professor Jane Chapman
Comics and the World Wars
£456,372.90
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Total number of awards: 18
Total value of awards: £5,615,789