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Welcome to the
AHRC Translating Cultures Development
Workshop
Museum of London
July 12th 2012
Timetable for the day Morning Session, 10:30 – 12:15: Background and Context
1) Welcome & introduction from the Chair: Professor Catherine Davies
2) Background & introduction to AHRC themes & Translating Cultures:
Dr Ian Lyne & Adam Walker (AHRC)
3) Keynote Address: ‘Ignorance is Darker than the Night’
Professor Graham Furniss
4) Welcome & thoughts from the Translating Cultures Leadership Fellow:
Professor Charles Forsdick
5) Translating Cultures: Policy & Partnerships Perspective,
Dr Abby Day
6) Questions
Timetable for the day Lunch & Networking, 12:15 – 13:15
Afternoon Session, 13:30 – 16:00: Exploring the theme
1) Welcome back & plans for the afternoon sessions
2) Breakout sessions
3) Feedback & panel session with Translating Cultures Advisory
Group
4) Next steps, summing up & final questions
5) End & networking
Background & Introduction to AHRC Themes &
Translating Cultures
Dr Ian Lyne (Associate Director, AHRC)
Adam Walker (Strategy and Development Manager, AHRC)
AHRC Themes: Background
• ‘Future Directions’ consultation with
researchers (Feb-May 2009)
• Further consultation with key partners
& Subject Associations & via HEI visits
• Themes shaped and refined by Theme
Advisory Groups (on-going process)
• Science in Culture
• Digital Transformations
• Care for the Future
• Translating Cultures
• Connected Communities(with other RCs)
AHRC Themes
Why Themes?
• Identifying high level issues that demand responses beyond individual disciplines
• Giving focus, but with flexibility, to enable research-generated connective concepts and ideas to emerge
• To foster research diversity, richness and coherence around important contemporary issues
• To help form collaborative partnerships beyond academia in a more coordinated way
• To strengthen research communities and capacity
What do we want Themes to achieve?
• To support the development of research capabilities in emerging research areas
• To support high quality cutting edge research, creativity, innovation and intellectual leadership
• To stimulate boundary-crossing collaborations and partnerships
• To develop new pathways and narratives for the impact of arts and humanities research
Ongoing support for Themes: 2012-15 and beyond
• Themes represent a long-term investment in the intellectual landscape - in this Delivery Plan and beyond
• Themes are diverse in nature - different funding and support patterns appropriate over future years
• Theme-relevant proposals are welcomed in all AHRC funding schemes – the Themes can help link up and build on proposals
• The Theme Leadership Fellow and Advisory Group will play a key role in helping to shape and unify the rich diversity of research questions encompassed by a Theme
Translating Cultures• Need for understanding & communication across diverse cultures
• Role of ‘translation’, in its broadest sense, in transmission & sharing of
languages, values, beliefs, histories & narratives
• Addressing issues including: cultural exchange & diplomacy,
multiculturalism, tolerance, identities & migration, youth / on-line
language & identity
• Promoting work across languages, disciplines & sectors
Strategic Question 1
How can research into languages and cultures anywhere
in the world and at any time:
Contribute effectively to key public policy concerns such as
security, economic growth, migration and the environment
by informing the work of policy makers and public, private &
third sector organisations?
Strategic Question 2
How can research into languages and cultures anywhere
in the world and at any time:
Develop our understanding of issues and interactions such
as youth culture, popular culture, inter-generational relations
and diasporic culture and of written, oral and performing
cultures, both from a historical perspective and in the more
contemporary context of digital media and communications?
Strategic Question 3
How can research into languages and cultures anywhere
in the world and at any time:
Help to develop knowledge and understanding of the process and nature of translation and interpretation across cultures, dialects and sectors?
Activity to Date • Appointment of Advisory Group
• Appointment of theme Fellow
• Highlight notices in Networking & Fellowships: 22 and 29 awards made
• Research Development call:
– 30k FEC, 6 months
– Networking / collaborative activity – 2 ROs, 1 non-RO
– Responding to 1 of the strategic questions
Theme Large Grants • £1m - £2m fec, up to 5 years, 2 – 4 awards
• Timetable:
– Autumn 2012: call for outline proposals
– Jan 2013: closing date for outline proposals
– Late March 2013: notification of outcomes
– May 2013: deadline for full proposals
– August 2013: outcomes announced
– Oct 2013 – April 2014: project commencement
• Nature of large grants
– Ambitious, transformative projects
– Collaborative: across institutions, disciplines, sectors & internationally
– Building research capabilities
Other Possible Activity
• Highlight notices
• Exploratory / Development awards
• Partnership activity
• International work
• Supplementary projects
Timetable for the day Morning Session, 10:30 – 12:15: Background and Context
1) Welcome & introduction: Professor Catherine Davies
2) Background & introduction to AHRC themes & Translating Cultures: Dr
Ian Lyne & Adam Walker
3) Keynote Address: ‘Ignorance is Darker than the Night’ Professor
Graham Furniss
4) Welcome & thoughts from the Translating Cultures Leadership Fellow:
Professor Charles Forsdick
5) Translating Cultures: Policy & Partnerships Perspective: Dr Abby Day
6) Questions