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The Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC] supports
world-class research that furthers our understanding of human culture and
creativity.
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Closing dates:
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Care for the Future Highlight notice for Research
Grants
New call
Applications for up to £1.5m (full economic cost) are invited under this
highlight notice in AHRC's standard and early career research grants
routes. The highlight notice addresses the 'Environmental Change and
Sustainability' area within the Care for the Future theme.
Find
out more about the call on our website.
Calling all
Subject Associations
Updating
details
The AHRC is keen to ensure that all Subject Associations within the arts
and humanities are invited to its annual meetings and other consultative
events. If you belong to a subject association and would like your
association to be on the AHRC's contact list, please email: communications@ahrc.ac.uk with
details.
Measuring the
value and role of design
Scoping study
to inform future design research direction and funding
Design Council and AHRC believe that design plays a key role in economic
and social value creation. We are currently conducting a scoping study and
we'd like to know more about your views on future design research needs,
and about the audiences and purposes of new academic design research.
For
more information on the consultation please go to the Design Council
website.
Research for
Community Heritage
Academics
supporting community reasearchers
The AHRC is collaborating with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to enable
community groups to work with academics in exploring their local heritage.
The HLF's 'All Our Stories' programme will make available grants to enable
community groups to research local historic landmarks, learn more about
customs and traditions, delve into archives and find out the origins of
street and place names, among many other activities.
For
more information please go to our website.
Invitation to
complete a researcher survey on open access publishing
Humanities
and social science researchers
OAPEN-UK is an AHRC-and JISC-funded project exploring the challenges and
steps required to move towards an open access publishing model for
scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences.
To complete the survey please go
to the OAPEN-UK website.
Collaborative
Skills Development
Future call
A new postgraduate call for 2012 will shortly be launched, largely based on
the 2011 Skills Development call, but also incorporating elements of the
Collaborative Research Training scheme. The new call will have two
categories covering Student Led Initiatives, for proposals originated by
Doctoral students with an award limit of £3000, and larger Research
Organisation led proposals for up to £60,000. Applications will be
encouraged in three main areas of Partnership working including public
engagement; Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy; and Research Skills
Enrichment. We will particularly welcome applications that support our
current themes and priority subject areas. Further details of the call will
be available on our website in May, with full guidance available in June.
The deadline for applications will be in September 2012.
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Religion
& Society - Faith Debates
18 April,
5.30-7pm, London
Debating the latest research on religion in public life. Organised by Linda
Woodhead, Charles Clarke and Rebecca Catto. Topics include What Limits to Religious
Freedom?
Further
information is available on the Religion & Society website.
Connected
Communities Research Development Workshop: Communities, Cultures,
Environments and Sustainability
22-24 May,
Bristol
The Programme's next research development workshop, organised in
collaboration with the Living with Environmental Change partnership. The
majority of places at the workshop will be allocated through an open call
for applications.
For
more information on the workshop and how to apply please go to our website.
Award holder
events
A selection
of events organised by our award holders
- Business
models, rights and ownership workshop
20 April, London
- Researching
Multilingually
25-26 April, Bristol
- Multimodality
and mixed methods
14 May, Newcastle
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Digital
Economy Research in the Wild 2012
Closing date:
18 April
'Research in the Wild' is about enabling researchers in the digital economy
to expose and test their research ideas with potential beneficiaries - for
example, the individual, business and/or society - in order to get closer
to achieving a viable proposition with potential for transformational
impact.
Find out more on our website.
Joint AHRC and Parliamentary Office of
Science and Technology Postgraduate Fellowship 2012
Closing date:
20 April
AHRC are working in partnership with the Parliamentary Office of Science
and Technology (POST) to offer a three-month fellowship based at the POST
offices in Westminster. This is as a chance for doctoral students to develop
experience of working within a policy environment and writing policy
briefings to inform parliamentarians about science and technology issues.
Find out more on our website.
HERA Joint Research Programme - Cultural
Encounters
Closing date:
4 May
The AHRC, 18 other European national funding organisations and the European
Commission have launched a new €18 Million research funding opportunity for
arts and humanities researchers. The call is intended to enable large
trans-national Collaborative Research Projects to increase understanding of
'Cultural Encounters.'
Find out more on our website.
Call for Research Grant - Environmental
Change and Sustainability: Thinking forward through the past proposals
Closing date:
30 October
Applications for up to £1.5m (full economic cost) are invited under this
highlight notice in AHRC's standard and early career research grants
routes. The highlight notice addresses the 'Environmental Change and
Sustainability' area within the Care for the Future theme.
Find out more on our website.
Non-AHRC News and Competitions
News from the
arts and humanities community
The following items are not AHRC news but may be of interest to our
community.
· Worlds Together: an international
conference exploring the value of the arts in young people's lives from
Shakespeare to the digital realm. September 6-8, 2012.
Worlds Together is a collaborative conference between Tate Modern, the
British Museum, the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company
(RSC). It draws together different disciplines in order to ask what is at
stake for children's cultural lives today.
More information can be found on the RSC website.
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