Research Spotlight

April 25, 2019 0

Manchester Voices: Documenting and celebrating the accents and dialects of Greater Manchester

Manchester Voices is a research project which explores the rich tapestry of accents, dialects, and identities that make up Greater Manchester. In this week’s blog, Dr Erin Carrie and Dr Rob Drummond discuss how the research will develop, and demonstrate why it really is a project about, with, and for the people of Greater Manchester. [...]

April 5, 2019 0

Reflecting on Women’s Rowing: Oral Histories and Sporting Lives

By Lisa Taylor The pace of change in women’s sport is quickening. More media airtime is being dedicated to [...]

March 21, 2019 0

Spring Nature Diary – Sir Mark Walport

We asked the nation to help mark the arrival of spring to create a crowd-sourced nature diary. Prof Sir Mark Walport, CEO of UK Research and Innovation, captured the wildlife that he saw on his morning commute. [...]

February 22, 2019 0

‘Mythical Florence’: Where Does the Lady with the Lamp Stand Today?

As the Bicentenary of Florence Nightingale's death approaches, an AHRC-funded project is looking to commemorate it by looking back at the regional representations of the lady with the lamp. In this week's blog Dr Jonathan Godshaw – describes Nightingale's uncomfortable relationship with public representations of herself. [...]

January 23, 2019 0

Performing Mountains

In this week’s blog, project lead Professor Jonathan Pitches describes how combining mountain culture with live performance has led him to a new way to translate mountain experience. [...]

December 7, 2018 0

From Stalingrad to Leningrad:Rebuilding Cities and Communities in Post-War Soviet Russia

Robert Dale – a historian and lecturer in Russian History at Newcastle University – discusses how the AHRC International Placement Scheme helped him bring to life the extraordinary story of six men who cycled to 2,000 km in the hope of uniting two of Soviet Russia’s largest cities. [...]

November 29, 2018 7

A New Kind of Laboratory: Researching Song and Identity in the Judaica Project

It is not easy to explain the project “Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork.” Funded by a Leadership Fellow award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2016-2018), the core of this project was six months of full-time embodied practice research involving three skilled practitioners working closely together, first in a studio and later in a variety of other places. [...]

November 21, 2018 0

The next steps after a Research in Film Award

In this week's blog, documentary Film Producer and PhD candidate Anna Sowa discusses how her film Kanraxël- The Confluence of Agnack’ came to win an AHRC Research in Film Award, among others, and where her project has gone from there. [...]

October 31, 2018 0

The Many Lives of Edward Lear

Today's blog entry by Professor Matthew Bevis discusses discusses the many facets of Edward Lear – from poetry to travel writing and natural history drawing – and how viewing these varied disciplines together can reveal new facets of Lear’s life. [...]

October 26, 2018 1

A question of class: how do social inequality metrics work in cultural organisations?

In this blogpost, Dr Susan Oman argues that context is key to understanding how measuring class and social mobility works in practice [...]

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