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New International Highlight notice

New funding
Interested in establishing or expanding networks to China, Brazil, India or Taiwan? The AHRC has just announced a new highlight notice in the research networking scheme that covers all these countries.
Find out more on our website

Cultural Value Project

Research Initiative
The AHRC’s two-year Cultural Value Project is intended to make a major contribution to how we understand and evidence the value of arts and culture both to individuals and to society.
To find out more about this initiative, please visit our website.

New Public Policy Highlight notice

New funding
A new highlight notice is now in place to support public policy engagement, fostering partnership and collaboration between researchers, policy makers, and policy intermediary bodies.
Find out more on our website

New opportunitity for international collaboration

New policy
The AHRC has introduced a new policy that allows applicants to include Co-investigators based overseas on Research Grants and Research Networking proposals.
Further information is available on our website.

International Placement Scheme

Closing date: 15 January

The annual AHRC/ESRC International Placement Scheme (IPS) is open for applications it provides 3 – 6 month, funded research fellowships for AHRC/ESRC-funded PhD students and Early Career Researchers, including those at an LBAS Centre, to: The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA; The Huntington Library, California, USA; National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan; Sarai Research Programme, Delhi, India.

For information on the scheme please see the AHRC IPS webpages.

Theme Large Grants Call

Closing date: January
Large Grants under the Science in Culture, Digital Transformations and Translating Cultures themes are now available. Successful proposals under the Large Grants call are expected to support research activities of a scale and ambition beyond that normally required for a standard AHRC grant. 
Further information can be found on the website.