The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced the latest round of award holders for the Research Leave scheme which supports individual researchers. One hundred and nineteen awards have been made to academics across the UK, investing over £3.2m 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.

These awards cover the full spread of arts and humanities areas. In this round of awards the research topics include, amongst many others:

• Morality and law in the Medieval English Marketplace
• New perspectives on the Algerian war 1954 - 1962
• History of English Law c.880-1220
• and contemporary travel writing in Latin America 

The full list of awards can be in the Browse Funded Research section of the website.

Editors Notes:

Media Contact: Jake Gilmore, Communications Manager, j.gilmore@ahrc.ac.uk. Tel: 0797 099 4586

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.