To mark Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday, Joanna Marschner, Senior Curator at Historic Royal Palaces tells us about an exciting AHRC-funded project which explores how Victoria played a vital role in the fashioning of her own image
Stacey Kennedy’s AHRC-funded doctoral research explores the depth and vibrancy of the African contemporary art scene. It looks specifically at the women who work in this field, as curators, art fair directors, gallery owners or managers, art practitioners, art historians and scholars.
As part of the AHRC’s ‘Doctoral Week’ we meet Jenny Bulstrode an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral student who has been awarded the 2018 Sarton Prize for History of Science by the American Academy of Art.
Equipping the next generation of academics with skills that go beyond the academy is critical, whether they go on to become university researchers, or take their post-doctoral-level thinking to other organisations, according to Anne Sofield at AHRC duing Doctoral Week.
One of the winners of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research in Film Awards (RIFA) 2018 has been put forward for a BAFTA Television Award.
The arts have a vital role to play in helping marginalised communities cope with the impacts of climate change, according to Dr Katie McQuaid, an anthropologist and research fellow at the University of Leeds.
Dr Nicolas Pillai talks about the BBC's one-night-only revival of its landmark 1960s programme, Jazz 625, and why it comes at a great time for the genre.
Niall Geraghty completed his AHRC doctoral award in 2015, from the University of Cambridge, here he talks about the benefit of doing a PhD and why AHRC funding was key to being able to complete his PhD
As we celebrate 300 years since the publication of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe - arguably the first English novel, Emma Nuttall, talks to us about what could be next for the novel - and literature - in the years ahead.
To celebrate World Heritage Day, we spoke to some of the Principal Investigators on a range of AHRC-funded heritage research projects, to get their take on the five key insights from the heritage sector.
To mark the first ever Creative Industries Day, we asked four professionals from across the sector to tell us about their experiences getting in to the sector
The Creative Industries Clusters Programme is the right way to boost the sector, according to Lord Finsbury, the man who led the 1998 Government taskforce that first identified the economic value of the creative industries.
As summer approaches and we begin to look forward to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Dr. Stacey Pope, Associate Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University, reflects on the public and media profile of women in football.
A new sci-fi thriller podcast from BBC Radio 4 is offering a fascinating additional dimension to an AHRC-funded project looking at the world of wildlife filmmaking
Be effective and fine tune your message and focus on talking the language of government, says Emily Commander, Strategic Lead, Public Policy at AHRC.
How will we remember the present in the future? What should we preserve? And what should we let go? In this feature, AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow, Professor Rodney Harrison talks us through the AHRC-funded research programme, Heritage Futures and their latest collaboration with Manchester Museum.
Malcolm explains AHRC made it possible for him to consider doctoral research. He added: “I wouldn’t have been able to take on the doctorate without their support. It was financially not viable for me to do that, so that made all the difference”.
Today (20 March 2019) we’re asked people across the UK to submit up to 150 words about the official arrival of spring. All entrants up until noon Friday, 22 March 2019, will go forward to be chosen for the eBook which will be available this summer. Submission for entries at www.ahrc.ukri.org/spring-diary has now closed.
Argentina’s Billiken is the world’s longest-running children’s magazine. Named after the Billiken doll that was designed in the early 20th century and became enormously popular in the United States, the magazine has been published by Editorial Atlántida, in Buenos Aires, since November 1919.
