The AHRC has secured £4m of capital funding to enhance access to leading-edge digital technologies and facilities by arts and humanities researchers and enhance impact from digital research outputs, such as databases, established with current or past AHRC or AHRB support.  

The call is designed to enhance the UK’s research strengths in the arts and humanities, including the outputs from AHRC’s ICT Programme, and to complement existing activities, such as those supported through the RCUK Digital Economy Programme.

The call has two strands, the first relating to access to leading-edge digital equipment, resources ands facilities, the second the development of AHRB/C digital research outputs to ensure long-term sustainability and accessibility of those resources.

AHRC Associate Director of Research, Gary Grubb said: “UK arts and humanities research community leads the world in the excellence and the innovativeness of its research and this call will further enhance and develop the support and resources it needs to maintain its global leadership. We hope that researchers and institutions will take advantage of this additional funding opportunity.” 

Proposals can be submitted with a minimum full economic cost of £50,000 and a maximum full economic cost of £1,000,000. Projects will be expected to start on 1 March 2010 and run for periods of up to one year. The closing date for the receipt of applications is 4pm on Thursday 5 November 2009.

For further information, please go to the Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact funding opportunity page.