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FYI
Subject: Message from AHRC Research Review team
Announcement and (at the end) how to sign up for information
From
Chris Rust, Judith Mottram and Jeremy Till
We are very pleased to tell you that UK Arts and Humanities Research Council
has awarded the contract to carry out their first
research review to our consortium of 9 Universities
The aim of the work is to map research activity and research capacity in these
three subject areas. The purpose is to inform
research policy and funding in the United Kingdom but we hope that it will be
of value to the wider research community as well and
we will welcome contributions in the form of knowledge and data from any country
where there is useful experience.
"Practice Led Research" has been used to describe a wide range of
research practices and has generated many debates. Our task is
not to continue or to resolve those debates but it will be necessary to
identify and describe them in order to carry out the
mapping work.
We need help from the research community and will have a number of ways for
that to happen. In the UK we will have Town meetings in Jan/Feb 2006 and also
in June/July 2006 to gather in ideas, experiences and case examples and to get
feedback on our work as it develops. We will also hold an online conference,
probably in April 2006, which will provide the opportunity for a much wider
range of researchers to share knowledge. We also expect to use a questionnaire
to check our assumptions and gather data on specific issues that we identify.
In addition we will be very grateful to hear about any resources in the form of
literature or data that could inform our work and we would welcome short review
or position papers relevant to the work. If you would like to offer such a
paper please contact Chris Rust ([log in to unmask]).
We will make our report to AHRC in September 2006 and we expect to share our
materials and findings with the research community through a project website
which will be set up in the next month.
We are currently advertising for a researcher to support this project, you can
find details at http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HRD/Vacancies/vacresearchmenu.asp The job is listed as "Researcher,
Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering & Sciences".
If you would like to receive information about the project you can subscribe to
our email list. This will only be used for messages from the project group to
you so, if you subscribe, we don't expect that you will be swamped by email
Send an email to:
[log in to unmask]
the message should say:
SUBSCRIBE AHRC-PL-REVIEW firstname lastname
(for example - SUBSCRIBE AHRC-PL-REVIEW Albert Einstein)
You will receive a welcome message with a bit more information about the
project
Best regards
Prof Chris Rust
(Head of Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University) [log in to unmask]
Prof Judith Mottram
(Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, Nottingham Trent
University)
Prof Jeremy Till
(Director of Architecture, University of Sheffield)
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