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Arts & Humanities Research Council Annual Report & Accounts 2013-14 Arts & Humanities Research Council Annual Report & Accounts 2013-14 Arts & Humanities Research Council Annual Report & Accounts 2013-14 Presented to Parliament Pursuant to Section 4 of the Higher Education Act 2004 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 July 2014 HC 184 © Arts and Humanities Research Council copyright 2014 The text of this document (this excludes, where present, the Royal Arms and all departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided that it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Arts and Humanities Research Council copyright and the document title specified. Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. Any enquiries related to this publication should be sent to us at Arts and Humanities Research Council Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1FL This publication is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications Print ISBN 9781474103336 Web ISBN 9781474103343 Printed in the UK by the Williams Lea Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office PO ID 080501401 07/14 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum CONTENTS Chairman’s Foreword 2 Notes to the Accounts 56 Chief Executive’s statement 3 Appendices 75 Appendix 1 Management Commentary 4 Research Programme: Applications and awards World-Class Research and its Impact 6 2013–14 for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 76 Connected Communities 14 Appendix 2 Priority Areas 16 Research Programme: Location of applicants Creative Economy 18 and award holders 2013–14 – Responsive Mode 79 Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers 20 Research Programme: Location of applicants and International 22 award holders 2013–14 – Thematic Mode 84 Public Policy 24 Appendix 3: Block Grant Partnership (BGP) Studentships Public Engagement 25 2013–14 96 Corporate Activities 26 Appendix 4: Block Grant Partnership: Capacity Building AHRC Structure 30 Studentships 2013–14 97 AHRC Structure 32 Appendix 5: AHRC Council Members 34 Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDA) Studentships 2013–14 98 AHRC Committee Members 35 Appendix 6: Accounts 36 Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentships 2013–14 101 Remuneration Report 38 Appendix 7: AHRC Governance Statement 2013–14 43 Collaborative Skills Development 103 The Certificate and Report of the Comptroller and Appendix 8: Auditor General to the Houses Of Parliament 50 Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure 52 Economy 2012–16 105 Statement of Financial Position 53 Appendix 9: Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Statement of Cash Flows 54 Projects 2012–16 106 Statement of Changes in Taxpayers’ Equity 55 The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is incorporated by Royal Charter and came into existence on 1 April 2005 under the terms of the Higher Education Act 2004. It took over the responsibilities of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. On that date all of the AHRB’s activities, assets and liabilities transferred to the AHRC. The AHRC is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, along with the other six Research Councils. It is governed by its Council, which is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the organisation. Arts and Humanities Research Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1FL Chairman’s FOREWORD As ever, this is an Annual Report that records a very effective year with major new initiatives on several fronts. These include a refocusing of the fellowship programme; the further development of the strategic themes; consolidation and new work in the priority areas of language, heritage and design; the creative economy hubs at their halfway point; BGP 2 for postgraduate funding with advances in research training; and European success through HERA alongside new international projects. This is a formidable list to For all the Council’s current success, which we should add, last but far from least, the ongoing the ongoing challenge is to look commissioning of new research projects. These are all signs of a maturing organisation which is approaching the tenth forward. A significant step is the anniversary of its existence in 2015. focusing of the fellowship programme It gives me a lot of pleasure to have been a minor contributor on intellectual leadership. to this success as I step down after six years as Chair of the Council. The major contributors, of course are the Council itself – a formidable body, the Chief Executive, senior officers and staff of the Council, and the academic community and its many partners from the wider creative The challenge is to find the rough water, and he adds: world. I warmly thank all of these, especially those with ‘forgive yourself for wasting time’. If you are being whom I have had the opportunity to work with very closely. ambitious, you’ll have to explore territory which sometimes The Council has been terrific and the staff, under Rick’s turns out to be unfruitful. Some of the challenges are leadership, have been a pleasure to work with. already clear: making the best of the digital age and ‘big data’. Interdisciplinarity still has to be properly For all the Council’s current success, the ongoing challenge articulated. Suppose we looked at ‘empire’ through the is to look forward. A significant step is the focusing of the contemporary lens of ‘complexity science’: what would be fellowship programme on intellectual leadership. While we the contributions of anthropology, archaeology, history, all share the responsibilities for charting future priorities, it is geography, sociology, economics and politics? What does good to have a cadre with that particular role – a stimulant this mean for the historians of empire? This quickly leads us for the rest of us. It is sometimes argued that particular into ‘rough water’ and big challenges. Research leadership attention should be paid to ‘the young’ in charting these should be about tackling these kinds of challenge. The waters, and it is perhaps significant that out of 49 fellowships Council, and academic researchers and their partners, will, awarded in 2013-14, 32 have gone to early career researchers. I am sure, rise to these challenges. I wish all concerned well The big questions for a researcher are first, what to do, and in these endeavours. second, how to do it? As a theoretical physicist of many decades ago, I have always warmed to Steven Weinberg’s Professor Sir Alan Wilson advice to a young researcher. ‘No one knows everything and Chair, AHRC, until December 2013 you don’t have to. Jump in, sink or swim,… pick up what you need as you go along. While you are swimming and not sinking, aim for the rough water … go for the messes.’ CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD AHRC Annual Report & Accounts 2013–14 Accounts & Report Annual AHRC 2 Chief Executive’s STATEMENT One of the rewards of working in the AHRC has been the 1960s Indonesia and to the extraordinary psychology of its large number of individuals and organisations whom I meet perpetrators. The human world can be joyous, but it brings from different parts of the research world. That world is horrors too. The mission of the arts and humanities is to increasingly characterised not just by its sustained historic reveal and understand both. Its media are many. excellence, but also by the diversity of the agencies involved. The research supported by the AHRC this year In the arts and humanities there are not only funders like brought much to admire and from which to learn. the AHRC, and the universities who produce outstanding We have funding challenges and, like other public bodies, the achievement and train the next generation of researchers. AHRC has had to think hard about adapting its structures There are also museums, galleries and libraries; there are the and ways of working in austere times. We are still on that multiple agencies that support the arts and performing arts; journey. Nevertheless there is cause to celebrate. The there are the private and public bodies from the various AHRC’s Creative Economy Showcase in March of this year parts of the creative economy; and there are the policy spotlighted this, especially the maturing work of the four agencies, which reflect on the sector’s development and Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy now encourage it to expand to become the UK’s fastest-growing well into their second year. Drawing nearly 400 participants, economic area. Then there is the international reach of with many more linked by live-stream and social media, British culture, and its formidable research achievements the Showcase demonstrated the dynamism and fertility acclaimed the world over. In many ways it is a good time to of research as it engages creatively with the human world be involved in arts and humanities research. about us. We need to voice this energy and breadth of During 2013, the AHRC published its new engagement more loudly and frequently. strategic plan: The Human World: AHRC Strategy 2013-18. Few will be surprised by its key elements. We commit to support excellent research of scale and quality, The strategy stresses the importance of the training of postgraduates and the encouragement collaborative and partnership working, of early career researchers. But the strategy also stresses and the need for arts and humanities the importance of collaborative and partnership working, and the need for arts and humanities research to connect research to connect between between institutions and reach out to other agencies in the institutions and reach out to other creative sector. Thus, for example, new initiatives in design are a priority. There are also new approaches to postgraduate agencies in the creative sector.
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