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Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Images, Objects

The ideas informing the development of the Beyond Text programme were submitted in response to the AHRC's 2005 consultation regarding its strategic areas. The programme recognises that today's digital culture means that communication is more rapid and often more transitory than ever before; performances, sounds, images and objects circulate swiftly on a global scale only to be replaced by even newer versions. Who controls and manages this material and its dissemination is now a key political, economic and legal question. Yet these are not new problems but ones with long historical roots. Beyond Text will create a collaborative, multi-disciplinary research community to work with those outside Higher Education on these issues. The programme will help inform and inflect public policy and foster public understanding of the many oral/aural, material and visual forms in which creativity has been generated and used. Finally, in bringing together those who create works and those who preserve, display and study them, the programme will break down traditional boundaries between practice-led or practice-based research and other forms of investigation. The £5.5 million programme will run for 5 years until May 2012. 

The Programme Specification is available at http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/apply/research/sfi/ahrcsi/beyond_text_sounds_voices_images_objects.asp. 

Applications are now being invited for the following funding opportunites: 

Collaborative Research Studentships will encourage and develop collaboration between Higher Education Institution (HEI) departments and non-academic bodies under the Beyond Text Programme. The closing date for this call is 17 January 2008.

Research Networks and Workshops aims to encourage and enable the discussion and development of ideas by researchers across and between disciplines, either through establishing new research networks or by running a series of workshops, seminars or similar events. The closing date for this call is 24 January 2008. 

Large Research Grants (for between £100,000 and £600,000 fEC) will support projects with a duration of between one and three years. The competition will be conducted in two stages, an outline phase, followed by a request for full applications from short-listed candidates. The closing date for outline applications is 14 February 2008 with the subsequent closing date for full applications on 26 June 2008.

For the Research Networks and Workshops, and Large Research Grants you must submit an application through the cross-council Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) System, the forms for the Networks and Workshops will be available on 16 October 2007, and the forms for the Large Research Grants will be available on 20 November 2007. For the Collaborative Research Studentships you can submit through paper form only, which is available through the web link above.

Applicants should note that the arrangements outlined in the AHRC's Memoranda of Understanding with the National Science Council of Taiwan National Science Council of Taiwan Korean Research Foundation (KRF) apply for applications under this programme.


Future Funding Opportunites

Small Research Grants (for between £20,000 and £150,000 fEC) will support projects from less established as well as established senior scholars, and from those wishing to undertake small scale innovative or short projects of up to 18 months. The closing date for this call will be announced in late 2008.


Enquiries about the scholarly content of the Beyond Text Programme, its aims, objectives and themes should be directed to Evelyn Welch at the contact address below:

Professor Evelyn Welch
Beyond Text Programme Director

Tel: 020 7882 7486
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Enquiries about the application procedures, competitions and timetables, application forms and application process should be directed to one of the AHRC officers as detailed below:

Research Awards Officer
Patrick Lansley
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Tel: 0117 987 6663

Julie Warrington
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Tel: 0117 987 6677

Dylan Law
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Tel: 0117 987 6682

Katie Baldock
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Tel: 0117 987 6578

 Senior Awards Officer
Katherine Barkwith 
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Tel: 0117 987 6679

Programme Manager
Anne Sofield
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Tel: 0117 987 6674
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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