ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact scheme
More than £4 million has been provided to 21 projects under the DEDEFI scheme, which funds work by arts and humanities researchers that is aimed at enhancing access to leading-edge digital technologies and facilities. The projects will also seek to increase the impact from digital-research outputs and drive the uptake of new technologies. Listed below are six of the winners; the other grants awarded were published last week.
Award winner: J.D. Richards
Institution: University of York
Value: £140,250
ADS+: enhancing and sustaining the Archaeology Data Service digital repository
Award winner: T.P. Schofield
Institution: University College London
Value: £262,673
The Bentham papers transcription initiative
Award winner: D. Tudhope
Institution: University of Glamorgan
Value: £109,802
Semantic technologies enhancing links and linked data for archaeological resources (STELLAR)
Award winner: C. Watts
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Value: £136,498
Voiceworks digital song/text project: a collaboration between the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, Wigmore Hall and Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Award winner: K. Woolford
Institution: University of Sussex
Value: £434,345
Motion in place platform
Award winner: A. Yarrington
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £61,462
Mobilising "mapping sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 1851-1951"
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Award winner: Usha Goswami
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £148,954
Rhythmic perception, music and language: a new theoretical framework for understanding and remediating specific language impairment
Award winner: Jemma Samuels
Institution: BrightsideUNIAID
Value: £124,858
Further education to higher education - supporting student parents' transition
Award winner: Ros Herman
Institution: City University London
Value: £142,157
Reading dyslexia in deaf children: the need for normative data
Award winner: Barry Mitchell
Institution: Coventry University
Value: £57,871
Sentencing in cases of murder: an analysis of public opinion
Award winner: Rachel Ormston
Institution: Scottish Centre for Social Research
Value: £99,266
Scotland's constitutional future
Award winner: Susan E. Harkness
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £95,835
Lone parents' mental health and employment
Award winner: Tony Dolphin
Institution: Institute for Public Policy Research
Value: £64,625
Modelling taxes on wealth
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Award winner: Michael Shiner
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £57,062
Black and minority ethnic access to higher education: a reassessment
Building on research that suggests that black and ethnic-minority applicants tend to be filtered into new universities, this project will investigate apparent biases in the student-recruitment process. Using data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, Dr Shiner aims to identify factors driving differential patterns of entry, with a view to making recommendations to promote a more balanced representation of groups across the whole sector.