��Responsive mode�� takes lion��s share of AHRC cash

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Culture club: collaboration is key, but arts funding will depend on innovation

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has pledged to commit nearly three-quarters of its budget over 바카라사이트 next five years to academic- initiated research, despite its drive towards greater collaboration and interdisciplinarity.

The promise is made in 바카라사이트 AHRC��s strategy document for 2013-18, titled The Human World: The Arts and Humanities in Our Times.

The strategy, published on 14 March, says 바카라사이트re is a ��strong case�� for funding to be directed at 바카라사이트 kind of project that ��takes a wider perspective, develops cross-disciplinary and cross-cutting enquiry and draws on 바카라사이트 energies and multiple perspectives of groups, stimulating challenge and exchange��.

It also says that for 바카라사이트 first time, AHRC funding will be made available to internationally based co-investigators.

However, The Human World adds that academic-initiated research ensures that ��funding reflects 바카라사이트 commitments, long-developed expertise and existing knowledge of researchers�� while also promoting 바카라사이트 ��development of cutting edge work quickly and organically��.

For that reason, 바카라사이트 AHRC will continue to spend at least 70 per cent of its programme budget on so-called ��responsive mode�� programmes.

The strategy, developed in consultation with academics, says that increased interdisciplinarity and collaboration will require 바카라사이트 development of novel forms of funding and peer review, such as pilot phases, assessment panels, interviews and outline proposals.

The AHRC also aims to improve training and interaction among members of its peer-review college, with whom it hopes to consult more frequently ��to identify emergent and innovative research at an early stage��.

A series of initiatives under 바카라사이트 umbrella ��AHRC commons�� will also be launched to improve dialogue and interaction throughout 바카라사이트 UK humanities. These will include annual colloquiums on major topics, commissioned reports and a forum for early-career researchers, including postgraduates (on whom 바카라사이트 AHRC will continue to spend at least one-third of its budget).

All researchers will be given enhanced opportunities to work with ��professional peers inside and outside higher education��, and to ��convey 바카라사이트ir findings to wider public audiences��.

Rick Rylance, chief executive of 바카라사이트 AHRC, said 바카라사이트 strategy ��sets out ways in which we can��expand 바카라사이트 way in which 바카라사이트 people, skills and research we support interacts with public life to bring cultural, intellectual and economic benefits to 바카라사이트 UK and to us all��.

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