The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced the latest round of Research Leave award holders. Forty eight awards have been made to academics across the UK, investing over £1.2m in their research.
The Research Leave scheme provides salary and associated costs for periods of three or four months, to enable an individual researcher to complete a significant research project by the end of the award period. The employing institution is expected to offer relief from teaching and other duties both in this period and an equivalent period in the term or semester immediately preceding.
The full list of award holders are as follows:
- Professor MM Adams
£30,371.00
Theology Faculty, University of Oxford
Sanctifying Matter: Some Medieval Theories of the Eucharist
Panel(s): 8
- Dr JN Ahearne
£21,647.00
Department of French Studies, University of Warwick
Intellectuals and Public Policy in France: Studies in the Government of Culture
Panel(s): 5
- Professor P Bailey
£29,107.00
School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh
The Sino-French Connection: A Sociocultural History of Chinese Indentured Labour in World War One France
Panel(s): 4
- Dr G Baker
£19,242.00
Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London
Buena Vista in the Club: The Rise and Fall of Cuban Hip Hop
Panel(s): 7
- Dr D J Beard
£22,917.00
School of Music, Cardiff University
Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre
Panel(s): 7, 2
- Professor R Bickers
£34,707.00
Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol
Treaty port China and its legacies, 1842-1999
Panel(s): 4
- Dr D Burrows
£25,877.00
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester
Completion of the third and final volume of a critical edition of the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman 'Vie de seint Clement'
Panel(s): 5, 4
- Dr S Calderini
£26,645.00
School of Arts, Roehampton University
Female imams: the contexts and discourses of arguments in favour and against female ritual leadership and religious authority in Islam
Panel(s): 8, 4
- Professor EA Carter
£25,481.00
Department of German Studies, University of Warwick
Béla Balàzs: early film theory in transnational context
Panel(s): 5, 2
- Dr P Ceccarelli
£26,823.00
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
Epistolary writing in ancient Greece: the formation, the evolution and the ideological connotations of a genre
Panel(s): 1
- Professor BH Cheyette
£25,413.00
School of English and American Literature, University of Reading
Diasporas of the Mind: Literature and Race after the Holocaust
Panel(s): 3
- Professor M Crinson
£34,771.00
Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
James Stirling and Architecture in Postwar Britain
Panel(s): 2
- Professor F Cullen
£32,497.00
Department of Art History, University of Nottingham
Access and Display: viewing art in Ireland c.1790-c.1920
Panel(s): 2, 4
- Dr EA Frood
£18,392.00
Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Second bodies: Elite self-presentation and landscapes of display in late New Kingdom Egypt
Panel(s): 1
- Professor DJ George
£32,234.00
School of Arts, University of Wales, Swansea
The Theatre of Sergi Belbel: Drama, National Identity and the Catalan Stage
Panel(s): 5, 7
- Dr MC Giles
£24,778.00
Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
'A forged glamour': landscape, material culture and identity in the Iron Age
Panel(s): 1
- Dr S Gilmartin
£28,301.00
Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Letters from the Sea: literature, navigation and identity in the writings of nineteenth-century maritime women
Panel(s): 3
- Dr S Goode
£19,441.00
Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Winchester
Re-submission: Constructing Paedophile Identities: culturally-mediated identity-construction of and among adults sexually attracted to children
Panel(s): 2, 3
- Dr D M Grimley
£26,540.00
Department of Music, University of Nottingham
Nielsen, Modernism, and Danish Musical Imagination
Panel(s): 7
- Dr KL Harvey
£26,749.00
Department of History, University of Sheffield
Men and the Home: Authority and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century England
Panel(s): 4
- Dr CP Hoerl
£25,265.00
Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
The nature and significance of temporal-causal reasoning
Panel(s): 8
- Professor J Jennings
£37,466.00
Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London
Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since 1789
Panel(s): 4, 8
- Dr SV Keene
£24,061.00
Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Collections for people: the stored collections of museums as a public resource
Panel(s): 6
- Dr SM Knight
£24,602.00
Department of English, University of Leicester
A new edition and translation of John Milton's 'Prolusions'
Panel(s): 3
- Dr KER Lacey
£29,969.00
Department of Media and Film Studies, University of Sussex
Listening Publics: The Politics and Experience of Mediated Sound
Panel(s): 2
- Dr DR Law
£29,692.00
Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
Kierkegaard's Kenotic Christology
Panel(s): 8
- Dr FJ Mackintosh
£23,689.00
School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh
The working methods of Alejandra Pizarnik as reviser, self-censor and translator: a detailed examination of her unpublished manuscripts.
Panel(s): 5
- Dr CM McManus
£24,898.00
School of Arts, Roehampton University
A critical edition of John Fletcher's 'The Island Princess' for Arden Early Modern Drama.
Panel(s): 3
- Professor PL Middleton
£34,122.00
School of Humanities, University of Southampton
American Poetry and Science in the Cold War
Panel(s): 3
- Dr PJR Millican
£24,546.00
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Hume on Induction and Causation
Panel(s): 8
- Professor A Milton
£29,319.00
Department of History, University of Sheffield
The Battle for the Church of England 1636-43
Panel(s): 4, 8
- Professor M Moriarty
£36,687.00
School of Modern Languages, Queen Mary, University of London
Virtue and Freedom in Early Modern French Thought
Panel(s): 5
- Dr JC Muldrew
£25,306.00
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
The Diet, Material Culture and Earnings of the Labouring Poor in England 1550-1780
Panel(s): 4
- Dr H Nehring
£23,179.00
Department of History, University of Sheffield
The last battle of the Cold War. Peace movements and German politics, 1979-1989/90.
Panel(s): 4
- Dr P Oakes
£20,214.00
Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
From Pompeii to Rome: Paul's Letter and its Hearers
Panel(s): 8
- Professor TP O'Sullivan
£30,762.00
School of Media and Cultural Production, De Montfort University
The Cinema of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph
Panel(s): 2
- Professor S Partridge
£37,317.00
Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee
REWIND | Artists' Video in the 70's & 80's
Panel(s): 2
- Dr SE Parvis
£23,689.00
Divinity, University of Edinburgh
An edition with translation and notes of the extant works of the Nicene theologian Marcellus of Ancyra
Panel(s): 1, 8
- Dr A Preston
£17,659.00
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
The Religious Influence on American Foreign Relations
Panel(s): 4, 8
- Dr S Radstone
£27,264.00
School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London
Getting Over Trauma: New Paradigms in Trauma Theory
Panel(s): 2
- Dr MC Rubery
£22,523.00
School of English, University of Leeds
The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Panel(s): 3
- Dr L Ryazanova-Clarke
£28,095.00
European Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
Russian Language and Identity: Discursive Practices in Post-soviet Russia
Panel(s): 5
- Dr SM Shilton
£23,738.00
School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol
Diasporic Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art
Panel(s): 5
- Professor J Smaczny
£41,224.00
School of Music, The Queen’s University of Belfast
A critical edition with introduction of Dvorak's last opera, Armida, and associated outputs (one article, one seminar paper).
Panel(s): 7
- Dr MO Townend
£20,380.00
Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
The Vikings and Victorian Lakeland: the Norse medievalism of W.G. Collingwood and his contemporaries
Panel(s): 3
- Dr V Voruz
£24,588.00
Faculty of Law, University of Leicester
The reception and influence of Michel Foucault's work in contemporary criminology.
Panel(s): 8
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Arts & Humanities Research Council: Each year the AHRC provides approximately £100 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,000 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. Arts and humanities researchers constitute nearly a quarter of all research-active staff in the higher education sector. 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.