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ECR Engaging with Government programme

ECR Engaging with Government programme

AHRC and Institute for Government are accepting applications for their joint ‘Engaging with Government’ programme in February 2015. Applicants must be ECRs and must have received an AHRC award at some point in their career (further details on site): http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Engaging-with-Government.aspx

The course is designed to provide an insight into the policy making process, and help participants develop the skills needed to pursue the policy implications of their research. It also aims to build links between policy makers and new research in the arts and humanities. Past participants have found the course interesting and useful.

What: ECR Engaging with Government programme
When: 24, 25, and 26 February (must attend all 3 days)
Closing date for applications : 5pm on Monday 20 October 2014

For any queries or further info, please use contact details provided on the AHRC website.

Three Large Grants announced!

Three Large Grants announced!

The Care for the Future: Thinking Forward Through the Past theme is pleased to introduce the newest members of its research family! The theme aims to generate new understandings of the relationship between the past and the future, and the challenges and opportunities of the present. The successful grants are innovative and collaborative research projects involving over 50 different UK and international partner organisations – we expect they will make a large contribution to the development of the theme. Welcome aboard!

Postdoctoral opportunities

3 Postdoctoral opportunities with French (labex) Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory programme

The Cluster of Excellence (labex) Pasts in the Present: history, heritage, memory is concerned with the presence of the past in contemporary society. More specifically, the cluster seeks to understand mediations of history in the digital age, politics of memory, social appropriations of the past up- and downstream from heritage policies. It is coordinated by the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (UPO), in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and networks with a wide range of national and international institutions and universities.

Three projects are seeking one-year full-time postdoctoral researchers, who will conduct project research as well as developing their related own project. They are:

  1. “Ordinary” conceptions and “vernacular” vocabulary in the mediation of history
  2. Reception, use and appropriation of historical exhibitions in a commemorative context
  3. The impact of archives digitization on social sciences and humanities research

More information can be found at http://www.passes-present.eu/en/three-open-postdoctoral-positions-2014-cluster-pasts-present-2936, and the application form is also available here. The application deadline is Monday, 12th May 2014, at 12:00.

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

18th and 19th February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society, more information on the event page on the AHRC website

Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past organised an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop on 18-19 February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society. ECRs are defined as being within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training or within six years of first academic appointment.

The aim of this facilitated workshop was to bring together early career researchers from a range of arts and humanities disciplines to identify key future research opportunities under the theme. Designed to give ECRs the opportunity to network outside of their own universities, sectors and disciplines, the workshop was quite successful in this respect. The workshop was highly participative, interactive and open to innovative ideas from participants about future research opportunities and priorities – and our 45 participants certainly delivered! We look forward to working with this cohort of ECRs interested in the Care for the Future theme further.

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

Care for the Future Early Career Researcher Workshop

18th and 19th February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society, more information on the event page on the AHRC website

Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past organised an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop on 18-19 February 2014 at the Royal Geographical Society. ECRs are defined as being within eight years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional training or within six years of first academic appointment.

The aim of this facilitated workshop was to bring together early career researchers from a range of arts and humanities disciplines to identify key future research opportunities under the theme. Designed to give ECRs the opportunity to network outside of their own universities, sectors and disciplines, the workshop was quite successful in this respect. The workshop was highly participative, interactive and open to innovative ideas from participants about future research opportunities and priorities – and our 45 participants certainly delivered! We look forward to working with this cohort of ECRs interested in the Care for the Future theme further.

Leadership Fellow Prof Andrew Thompson’s article in Red Cross Life magazine

Leadership Fellow Prof Andrew Thompson’s article in Red Cross Life magazine

Joan Whittington with prisoner of war food parcels at national headquarters in 1956. Image: British Red Cross

Prof Andrew Thompson writes about Joan Whittington, post-war pioneer of the British Red Cross.

Read the article here, courtesy of the British Red Cross and Red Cross Life Magazine Oct 2013. You can now also read the article online at the AHRC website, which includes an additional image.