The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is inviting proposals for Networks under a call entitled, Arts and Humanities Approaches to Researching Environmental Change.
The aim of the Networks is to establish distinctive, innovative and engaging arts and humanities research perspectives on environmental change through high quality networks of international significance.
The call builds on research activity already undertaken under the AHRC’s Landscape and Environment, and Science and Heritage strategic initiatives, and will contribute to the cross-Council Living with Environmental Change Programme. Each award can be up to a value of £30,000 (full Economic Cost).
The competition is structured around the following four wide-ranging themes which raise research questions that require an interdisciplinary response from the arts and humanities.
• Histories of environmental change
• Representing environmental change
• Knowledge and value
• Material culture and sustainability
Landscape and Environment Programme Director, Professor Stephen Daniels, is overseeing the current call. He says, “There is a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the arts and humanities that can be brought to bear upon the environmental change debate including, creativity, ethics, aesthetics, critical reflection, language and discourse, historical perspective and cultural values and imagination.”
Research Network members should offer a diversity of expertise and experience and could include representatives from different arts and humanities disciplines, heritage institutions, museums, galleries, libraries and archives, practitioner communities, commerce and industry. The Network may also include collaboration with people outside the UK.
For further information and details on how to apply, are available on the Research Environmental Change Funding Opportunity page.
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Notes to the editor
1.) About the Arts & Humanities Research Council: Each year the AHRC provides approximately £102 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 1,350 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 over 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.
2. 'Living With Environmental Change' (LWEC) is a ten year research programme with over 20 different funding partners. LWEC aims to meet the needs identified by the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the United Nations’ Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. LWEC aims to bring together researchers from across the different disciplines in the natural, engineering, economic, social, medical, cultural, arts and humanities. It involves working with businesses, government bodies, NGOs and the public to understand the research challenges and the social and economic implications of environmental change.