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Record art funding for University
Posted on 30/05/09
University of Leicester
Three departments in the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester have between them won five highly competitive Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA).
This is a record for the University, which has won at least one award every year since the competition began in 2005 and it shows the Universitys continuing success in working with partners outside the university sector and a commitment to continue to develop these relationships.
Professor Douglas Tallack, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College, commented: My congratulations go to the Departments involved. These prestigious and much sought-after PhD studentships reflect an AHRC commitment to collaboration between higher education and non-academic organisations and businesses.
Involving joint-supervision across Higher Education and the non-academic world, the AHRC funded studentships scheme also promotes collaboration between institutions. It increases knowledge-transfer and impact, criteria which, Professor Tallack says, have not always fitted easily with traditional Humanities research but which more and more academics and their postgraduate students are adjusting to in imaginative ways.
Doctoral students with CDAs gain work-experience, as well as access to a wide range of research source-materials and contacts.
These five prestigious CDA awards add to the 44 postgraduate scholarships over five years recently won by the College through another of the AHRC postgraduate funding schemes, and four scholarships for research into urban poverty, conservation, human rights, and migration in the EU, generously funded by gifts from University of Leicester alumni. Matched funding by academic departments in the College and the University have funded a further 20 postgraduate scholarships.
Dr Sally Horrocks, Department of Historical Studies, said: The studentship for which I am Principal Advisor is in collaboration with the Media Archive for Central England (MACE) and builds on previous collaborations at the level of undergraduate teaching and research.
A key intention of this project is to make the film resources held by MACE more widely accessible by cataloguing the material used and developing a programme of film for public performance.
James Patterson, Director of MACE, added: We are really pleased to have had this success in what is an increasingly competitive field. Applications were up 59 per cent this year, I understand. We look forward to having two PhD students working with us soon.
Professor Colin Haselgrove, Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, said: The partnership with the British Museum will give archaeology students invaluable experience of working in a national museum environment and of its public outreach activities, such as the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
Dr Matthew Potter, Department of History of Art and Film, commented: This award will be of huge benefit in not only allowing a student to undertake the study of an under-explored and important aspect of Turners work, but also giving them access to the curatorial expertise of a top institution and the chance to witness how research feeds back to the British public through museum work.
Catherine Malcolmson, AHRC Studentship: 'Constructing Charles Dickens: 1900-1940', said: I am in my first year of a PhD examining Charles Dickenss influence on early twentieth-century culture. The PhD is funded by a Collaborative Doctoral Award from the AHRC, and is a collaboration between the University of Leicester and the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
The collaborative nature of the project has been a huge benefit to my studies. I have access to the Museums wealth of archival material, much of which relates directly to my research interests, and having both an academic supervisor and a supervisor at the Museum has helpfully provided different perspectives on the work Ive been doing.
The winning five projects are:
Department of History of Art and Film and Tate Britain
Principal Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Potter
Title: JMW Turner and German Romanticism: The influence of German thought on the work and reception of Turner
Department of History of Art and Film and the Media Archive for Central England (MACE)
Principal Supervisor: Professor James Chapman
Title: A history of ITV regional programming in the Midlands based on the ATV/Central Television Regional Programme Collection held at MACE
School of Historical Studies and the Media Archive for Central England (MACE)
Principal Supervisor: Dr. Sally Horrocks
Title: Women and Change in the Workplace: Perspectives from the English Midlands 1950s- 1980s
School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the British Museum (Dr Jody Joy)
Principal Supervisor: Professor Colin Haselgrove
Title: A study of late Hallstatt and early-middle La Tne brooches in Britain
School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the British Museum (Dr Derek Welsby)
Principal Supervisor: Dr Dave Edwards
Title: The Kingdom of Kush: the archaeology of its development
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