4th Mayflower lecture In search of the ancestors: Native American presences in British museums Wednesday 14 November | 18.00-20.30 | Sherwell Centre Jack Davy is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia on the AHRC funded project “Beyond the Spectacle: Native American presences in Britain”. He has a PhD in anthropology… Continue reading 14th November 2018: 4th Mayflower Lecture
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News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The latest newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) can be viewed via this link. The newsletter contains information about AHRC activities and funding calls. The October 2018 issue includes: Beyond: The R&D conference for the creative industries – 13 November 2018 – Beyond is a research and development conference for the creative industries.… Continue reading News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The latest newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) can be viewed via this link. The newsletter contains information about AHRC activities and funding calls. The July 2018 issue includes: Search starts for 2019 generation of great thinkers and broadcasters – The AHRC and BBC Radio 3 are on the lookout for a… Continue reading News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The latest newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) can be viewed via this link. The April 2018 issue includes: Launch of Research in Film Award 2018 – The Research in Film Awards are returning for a fourth year with two new categories focused on migration and social media. UK Research and Innovation… Continue reading News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The latest newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) can be viewed via this link. The newsletter contains information about AHRC activities and funding calls. The March 2018 issue includes: The launch of the Health Humanities Medal 2018 – The Arts and Humanities Research Council, in association with the Wellcome Trust, has launched… Continue reading News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Language, gender and Politics, University of Plymouth: ‘What Difference did the War Make’ project.
On Friday, 6th October, Plymouth University hosted the first event in the AHRC funded project ‘What Difference did the War Make?’ Working with project partners from the University of Lincoln and Parliament’s Vote 100 Project, ‘Language, Gender and Politics’ was the first of three public events commemorating the centenary of the Representation of the People… Continue reading Language, gender and Politics, University of Plymouth: ‘What Difference did the War Make’ project.
David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Congratulations to Dr David Sergeant who has recently been awarded a 2 year AHRC Research Leadership Grant. The award is a 2 year AHRC ECR Leadership Fellowship, titled Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel,1880-2015. The project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and… Continue reading David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Six Plymouth University Researchers become members of AHRC Peer Review College
Six researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University have recently been selected as members of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College. Professor Alessandro Aurigi, Dr Anya Lewin, Professor Daniel Maudlin, Professor Dafydd Moore, Dr Angela Smith and Dr Katharine Willis were chosen to join 1,500 existing members… Continue reading Six Plymouth University Researchers become members of AHRC Peer Review College
Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
Two doctoral researchers in the arts at Plymouth University have been awarded prestigious placements to complement their programmes of study. Coral Manton has been awarded a placement by the British Library to investigate possibilities for the PhD thesis in multimedia and non-text forms, and how a national database of UK doctoral theses can record and make accessible… Continue reading Arts PhD researchers win prestigious placements
Feature: “The Challenge of Connecting Communities”
BY ALAN BUTLER In retrospect, one of the more surprising things that characterised my PhD project was the need to continuously negotiate and renegotiate a variety roles, along with their associated labels. Some of these, I must admit, did not always automatically sit comfortably with me. My thesis, “Performing LGBT Pride in Plymouth, 1950 to 2012,” considered how… Continue reading Feature: “The Challenge of Connecting Communities”