The latest awards for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Research Grants (Standard and Early Career) scheme have just been made.
Twenty six projects have been successful in getting funding and over £10 million is being invested in this research after a very competitive review process.
The majority of these projects average three years to undertake and most will commence in late 2010.
Some of the topics to be researched will include:
• to study how young people’s ability to develop and engage in deep critical information behaviour – to seek, find, evaluate and use information effectively – might be enhanced
• a fresh approach to the digital divide looking at digital exclusion and why people decide to not engage with the internet
• histories of rebellion and collaboration in the British Empire
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:
Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Each year the AHRC provides approximately £112 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 approximately 700 research awards and around 1,300 postgraduate 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.
Research Grants (Standard) Scheme
Announced Summer 2010
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.
Dr DA Atkinson £198,600.00 £0.00
Department of Geography, University of Hull
The path of most Resistance: the intimate geographies of landscape for World War II Partisans in Northern Italy
Dr J Black £167,587.00 £0.00
School of Art and Design History, Kingston University
Public Commemoration and Representation Post-1945: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones (1913-1996)
Dr D Branch £286,948.00 £51,568.00
History, University of Warwick
Empire Loyalists: Histories of Rebellion and Collaboration in the British Empire
Professor D Broun £841,980.00 £0.00
Department of History, University of Glasgow
The Breaking of Britain: cross-border society and Scottish independence 1216-1314
Dr C DeSilvey £80,762.00 £0.00
Geography, University of Exeter
Small is Beautiful? Visual and Material Cultures of Making and Mending
Dr SR Ditchfield £457,645.00 £0.00
Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
Conversion Narratives in Early Modern Europe: a cross-confessional and comparative study, 1550-1700
Professor WM Drabkin £673,583.00 £103,136.00
School of Humanities, University of Southampton
Heinrich Schenker as Theorist, Teacher and Correspondent, 1925-1930
Professor S Emmerson £246,555.00 £51,568.00
Performance and Digital Arts, De Montfort University
New Multimedia Tools for Electroacoustic Music Analysis
Professor M Everist £491,134.00 £103,136.00
School of Humanities, University of Southampton
_Cantum pulcriorem invenire_: Thirteenth-Century Latin Poetry and Music
Dr MS Fomin £166,593.00 £0.00
School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster
Stories of the Sea: A Typological Study of Maritime Memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic folklore traditions
Professor N Ford £216,115.00 £0.00
Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield
Developing deep critical information behaviour
Professor D Gauntlett £340,823.00 £0.00
School of Media Arts and Design, University of Westminster
Digital Engagements: Online Exclusion and Social Capital
Dr N Gonis £851,035.00 £0.00
Department of Greek and Latin, University College London
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Professor T Gorringe £226,582.00 £0.00
Department of Theology, University of Exeter
The Role of Values in Responding to Major Social Change: Christian Churches and the Transition Town Movement
Dr V Halbach £735,505.00 £57,862.00
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Inexpressibility and reflection in the formal sciences
Professor RJ Hazell £505,954.00 £0.00
Department of Political Science, University College London
The Politics of Judicial Independence in Britain's Changing Constitution
Dr KM Hodgson £343,857.00 £103,136.00
Department of Russian, University of Exeter
Reconfiguring the Canon of Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, 1991-2008
Dr GC HOSKINS £137,356.00 £0.00
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University
Mining Memories: social and environmental pasts at international industrial heritage sites
Dr R Howat £242,458.00 £0.00
Research, Royal Academy of Music
The songs of Gabriel Fauré: New critical edition
Professor RJ Matthews £727,742.00 £112,082.67
Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Sedentism and Resource Management in the Neolithic of Western Iran
Professor A Rapoport-Albert £296,342.00 £0.00
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
The Grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew Tale, 1864-1914
Professor R Schmidt £362,667.00 £51,568.00
Department of German, University of Exeter
Kleist, Education and Violence. The Transformation of Ethics and Aesthetics
Professor TC Schmidt-Beste £797,615.00 £51,568.00
School of Music, Bangor University
The Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480-1530 (PRoMS)
Dr RM van Besouw £109,081.00 £0.00
Inst of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton
Compositions for Cochlear Implantees
Professor V Wallace £332,342.00 £0.00
Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Authorship, originality and innovation in Tibetan Scriptural Revelations: A case study from the Dudjom Corpus.
Dr JRG Williams £106,945.00 £51,472.00
School of Philosophy, University of Leeds
Metaphysical Indeterminacy
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Total number of awards: 26
Total value of awards: £9,943,806.00
Total value of studentships: £737,096.66