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The Arts and Humanities Research Council Annual Report and Accounts 2005-2006 2005/06 AHRC Annual AHRC Report and Accounts Arts and Humanities Research Council Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006 The Arts and Humanities Research Council Annual Report and Accounts 2005-2006 Presented to the House of Commons Pursuant to Section 4 of the Higher Education Act 2004 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 24 July 2006 HC 1426 LONDON: The Stationery Office £20.50 The 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 Office of Science and Innovation (OSI), which is part of the Department for Trade and Industry, along with the other seven research councils. It is governed by its Council, which is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the organisation. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) aims to: • Support and promote high quality and innovative research in the arts and humanities • Support, through programmes in the arts and humanities, the development of skilled people for academic, professional and other employment • Promote awareness of the importance of arts and humanities research and its role in understanding ourselves, our society, our past and future, and the world in which we live • Ensure that the knowledge and understanding generated by arts and humanities research is widely disseminated for the economic, social and cultural benefit of the UK and beyond • Contribute to the shaping of national policy in relation to the arts and humanities. These aims reflect the objectives which are enshrined in our charter – see www.ahrc.ac.uk/ahrb/website/images/4_96187.pdf 1 Contents Chairman's Statement 3 Chief Executive's Statement 4 Management Commentary 5 Activities 6 Research 10 Postgraduate Programmes 16 Knowledge Transfer 22 Science in Society 28 International Affairs 34 AHR Corporate Activities 36 AHRC Structure 41 C AHRC Organisational Plan and Structure 42 Co Council Members 43 n te AHRC's Committees 44 n Research Peer Review Panels 46 ts Postgraduate Peer Review Panels 48 Remuneration Report 49 Accounts 53 Statement of Council's and Chief Executive's Responsibilities 54 Accounting Officer's Statement on Internal Control 54 The Certificate and Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General to the House of Commons 56 Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Recognised Gains and Losses 57 Balance Sheet 58 Cash Flow Statement 59 Notes to the Accounts 60 2 Appendices 69 Appendix 1 Research programme: applications and awards 2005 - 2006 by subject area 70 Appendix 2 Research Programme: applications and awards 2005 - 2006 — England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 71 Appendix 3 Research programme: location of applicants and awardholders 2005 - 2006 Responsive Mode 73 Appendix 3 Research programme: location of applicants and awardholders 2005 - 2006 Strategic Initiatives 77 Appendix 4 Postgraduate programme: applications and awards 2005 - 2006 by subject area 81 Appendix 5 Postgraduate Competition 2005 – Distribution of Applicants and Awards by Institution 82 Appendix 6 Collaborative Postgraduate Schemes 87 Appendix 7 Results of the 2005 doctoral submission rate survey 88 Appendix 8 Collaborative Doctoral Awards 2006 91 Appendix 9 Support for Higher Education Museums, Galleries and Collections 92 Appendix 10 Project Funding for Museums, Galleries and Collections 2005 93 Appendix 11 What our awards deliver 94 3 Chairman’s Statement n this occasion may I employ of the most enduring human problems, the prerogative of being a cultural differences. Chairman and thank all those O To return to offering thanks for the who have helped the AHRB evolve from creation of the AHRC. Our particular a Board into the current fully fledged thanks must go to Presidents of the Research Council. The prize of ensuring British Academy who have vigorously that the Research Council system supported our creation, to the ESRC now includes the humanities and the who in the early days were powerful creative arts is not to be underrated: advocates for our existence and to Ron it constitutes a clear acceptance by Dearing who in his Inquiry into Higher Government that “Research and Education argued cogently – from a Development” encompasses more than paper produced by John Laver – for the natural sciences and technology, an AHRC and had the inspired idea of and the social sciences. There are bringing together the creative arts and many reasons why the Government the humanities. It is to the Funding was persuaded but one relates to the Councils, however, that much practical significant economic changes which credit is due – and notably to Brian have taken place in the UK over the last Fender at HEFCE - because they actually two decades. These days the nation is created and funded the AHRB. The last committed to a very major part of its few years have involved a three stage economic life lying outside traditional process to create an AHRC and embed manufacturing – in the service industries, it within the Office of Science and in the creative industries and in tourism. Innovation. Great credit must go to our Chief Executives - Paul Langford, David The next step surely is to use the Eastwood, Geoff Crossick and now Philip Esler – along with the staff at Bristol. But modern research council system moving from one Ministry to another in Whitehall is a particular challenge and to cut across the disciplines. without the support of the DfES and the DTI (Office of Science and Innovation) The next step surely is to use the – both ministers and officials – then it modern research council system not would not have occurred. The final step only to support our particular disciplines required primary legislation and this was – whether they are the humanities or enshrined in the Higher Education Act of biology – but also to cut across the 2004 (along with variable undergraduate disciplines. Baroness Onora O’Neill fees). It also required passing legislation (the new President of the British through the Scottish Parliament since Academy) observed to me recently Research Councils operate as UK bodies that interdisciplinary approaches lie at and for this I should finally thank our the root of much innovative research colleagues in the Scottish Executive and scholarship and, whilst this is who steered with skill and aplomb indeed accurate, the opportunity now the necessary changes through the exists to cut across whole disciplines Edinburgh parliament. and so tackle some profoundly important and interesting problems. This must be the century when we can understand the human brain and see a fusion of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience; or the full force of research Professor Sir Brian K. Follett and scholarship might be applied to one Chairman 4 Chief Executive’s Statement to apply to us under any of exemplars of how the fruits of world- our programmes. class research can have powerful impacts in new settings. The UK is deeply fortunate to have in its midst so many people dedicated to Yet we are not alone in fostering a cutting-edge, world-class research and vibrant and sustainable population scholarship in the arts and humanities. of researchers and postgraduate You can easily see this if you conduct the students engaged in research, training mental experiment of asking what our and knowledge transfer. We are national life would be like if we had no one of eight Research Councils who philosophy, no studies in English or the form the stimulating environment of classics or modern languages, no work Research Councils UK and who work on religion, no disciplined knowledge together across an increasing range of of British history, no research in the programmes and administrative services. visual or performing arts and so on. Personnel at all levels from the eight Without such research we would be Councils meet regularly and work on woefully impoverished across a whole joint projects. Several of the groups are n 1 April 2006 the Arts and range of issues vital to our identity: chaired by AHRC staff. our knowledge of the past (including Humanities Research Council We are also forming partnerships with our collective memory), our capacity Ocelebrated its first birthday. many other bodies, in the UK and abroad. for disciplined thought, our dynamic While its prior life as a Board was In the last year we have greatly expanded engagement with our literary traditions, singularly successful and well-received, our international activities. This effort, our understanding of the visual, musical its inaugural year with this new status initially directed to Europe (where we and imaginative dimensions of human and organisation has brought home to are easily the largest national funding experience, our creativity and so on. AHRC staff and stakeholders the exciting agency in the arts and humanities) and The research our arts and humanities new challenges facing it as a Council. the USA, will grow considerably in the academics conduct in these areas assists Readers of this Report will gain a rich year ahead to embrace other nations. sense of the wide variety of ways in the nation to flourish socially, culturally which we are rising to those challenges, and economically. In particular, our I hope that this Annual Report reveals while continuing the good work the researchers are central to the success of the quality of work we support and the Board was doing previously. the UK as a knowledge economy through excitement that we feel along with all their strong links with the creative our stakeholders in fostering it. Arts Our Royal Charter identifies the industries, which are responsible for and humanities research preserves and four main tasks in which we must 8% of the UK’s GDP and are growing at transforms the scholarship, intellectual engage as research (pure and applied), about 6% per annum, way above the life and energy, creativity and innovation postgraduate training, knowledge national average.
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