ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Thirteen projects have been awarded more than £300,000 of financial support under the Science and Heritage Research Clusters Scheme, which is jointly funded by the AHRC and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The programme aims to support innovative interdisciplinary activities.
Award winner: N. Bell
Collaborating institutions: The National Archives, University College London, Tate
Value: £24,368
EGOR: Environmental guidelines: opportunities and risks
Award winner: T. Fisher
Collaborating institutions: Nottingham Trent University, Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum
Value: £23,171
Understanding complex structures: the conservation, display and interpretation of lace and natural objects
Award winner: D. Hicks
Collaborating institutions: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, The Open University, English Heritage, Bletchley Park Trust
Value: £24,505
Ecologies of modern heritage: studying the cultural and material environments of recent historical change
Award winner: J.J. Hughes
Collaborating institutions: University of the West of Scotland, Queen's University Belfast, University of Glasgow, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, UHI Millennium Institute (Orkney College)
Value: £24,291
Transformation and resilience of our landscapes, archaeology and built heritage: defining responses to societal and environmental pressures
Award winner: L.M. Hurcombe
Collaborating institutions: University of Exeter, University of Glasgow
Value: £24,206
Touching the untouchable: increasing access to archaeological artefacts by virtual handling
Award winner: R. Janaway
Institution: University of Bradford
Value: £24,530
An integrated approach to the management, scientific study and conservation of battlefield artefact assemblages
Award winner: P.J. Lane
Collaborating institutions: University of York, University of Bradford, National Museums Liverpool, Horniman Museum
Value: £24,390
Researching ivory
Award winner: A. Mazel
Institution: University of Newcastle
Value: £24,4
Decay of ancient stone monuments
Award winner: D.T. Murphy
Collaborating institutions: University of York, Ove Arup & Partners, The British Library
Value: £24,538
I-HE(AR)2 (I Hear Too) - improving heritage experience through acoustic reality and audio research
The rest of the award winners will appear in next week's Times Higher Education magazine
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winners: Paul Whiteley and David Sanders
Institution: University of Essex
Value: £1.5 million
The ESRC has awarded funding to the University of Essex to carry out the latest British Election Study, the UK's leading analysis of political science research. Directed by Professor Whiteley and Professor Sanders alongside colleagues at the University of Texas at Dallas, the study will look into what leads people to vote and what determines their allegiance to a party. Conducting surveys before, during and after the next general election, the research will also look at which factors determine the outcome, including issues such as terrorism, immigration and the global financial crisis. The findings will help to further our understanding of how elections affect public attitudes and British democracy more generally.