HUMANITIES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA NETWORK
The Hera Network has awarded more than €16 million (£14 million) to 19 transnational collaborative research projects across Europe. Co-funded by the European Commission and 13 humanities research councils in mainland Europe and the UK, the network's first joint research programme seeks insight from the humanities into current challenges facing the Continent. The Hera funding has been allocated in two key areas. Listed below are the five grant winners that were not printed in last week's issue.
HUMANITIES AS A SOURCE OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Project leader: Joanna Sofaer
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: €973,582
Creativity and craft production in middle and late Bronze Age Europe
Project leader: Maruska Svasek
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: €807,455
Creativity and innovation in a world of movement
Project leader: Jeremy Till
Institution: University of Westminster
Value: €980,489
Scarcity and creativity in the built environment
Project leader: Evelyn Welch
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: €999,769
Fashioning the early modern: innovation and creativity in Europe, 1500-1800
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL/ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
£4 million has been awarded to seven research projects by the EPSRC and the ESRC as part of Research Councils UK's ongoing Energy Programme. The projects have been developed through workshops and after extensive dialogue with stakeholders including interest groups, social enterprises and policymakers. The project teams will work in concert with local communities in order to find appropriate ways to reduce energy demand, delivering environmental dividends for the UK and helping to meet European Union policy.
Award winner: G. Smith
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £945,833
The role of community-based initiatives in energy saving
Award winner: R. Gupta
Institution: Oxford Brookes University
Value: £1,373,831
Evaluating the impact, effectiveness and success of Department of Energy and Climate Change-funded low-carbon communities on localised energy behaviours
Award winner: J. Webb
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £998,469
Heat and the city: comparing the trajectory of sustainable heat and energy conservation in the municipal communities of Glasgow and Edinburgh
Award winner: K. Henwood
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £574,539
Energy biographies: understanding the dynamics of energy use for energy- demand reduction
Award winner: A. Dobson
Institution: Keele University
Value: £452,928
Reducing energy consumption through community knowledge networks
Award winner: M. Michael
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Value: £974,133
Sustainability invention and energy-demand reduction: co-designing communities and practice
Award winner: R. Rettie
Institution: Kingston University
Value: £699,6
Smart communities: shaping new low-carbon communities' norms and practices
IN DETAIL
Project leader: Mireille van Eechoud
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Value: €985,390
Authorship and originality: reclaiming copyright in support of creative collaboration in the digital environment
With the digitisation of materials and the expansion of the internet giving rise to increased copying, borrowing and reworking of existing materials, this project will look to investigate how copyright laws can effectively govern these new forms of working and collaboration. Identifying and exploring theories of authorship from disciplines including film and audiovisual studies, Dr van Eechoud and her team will attempt to determine how they can be used to help develop a European copyright policy that is better placed to serve creative practice in today's digital environment.