The first awards as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) new Research Networking scheme have just been made.

The AHRC Research Networking scheme is designed to encourage and enable discussion and development of ideas on a specified thematic area, issue or problem through, for example, new research networks or running a short-term series of workshops, seminars or similar events.
 
Seven projects have just been funded including one from Anglia Ruskin University that will look at the political implications of Twitter and Facebook.
 
Other projects include one looking at the intersections between culture and economics in nineteenth-century America, a period that offers many insightful parallels to the current moment of crisis in global financial capitalism and a project looking at the development of cultural links between New England and Britain.
 
The awards are as follows:
Professor RW Bradley £37,166.00
Department of Philosophy,Logic & Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science
Choice Theory Network
 
Dr JN Hands £36,542.00
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics
 
Dr P Knight £37,355.00
Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
Culture of the Market Network
 
Dr R Peel £29,353.00
Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
Separateness and Kinship : Transatlantic Exchanges 1600-1900
 
Professor A Rowland £26,479.00
Institute of Social, Cultural and Policy Research, University of Salford
The Future of Testimony
 
Dr V Scheid £37,421.00
School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster
Traditional East Asian Medicines Research Network (TEAMsRN): Making Medical Humanities Relevant to the Globalisation of East Asian Medicine
 
Dr JM Webber £27,527.00
School of English, Communications and Philosophy, Cardiff University
Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism
 
To learn more about the scheme go to http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/ResearchNetworking.aspx
 
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About Arts and 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.