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Humanities and Social Sciences Research and KE Newsletter
Contact us about the newsletter We would like to share news that is of interest to you so please let us know if you, or your colleagues, have success stories to share, or
upcoming events. Any suggestions for the future of the newsletter are welcomed and much appreciated. Please get in touch with Maeva ([email protected]) or Jenny ([email protected]).
Introducing Dr Daniel Whistler – Philosopher of Religion and Humboldt Fellow
Dan researches on the history of philosophy, particularly 18th and 19th century French and German philosophies, as well as contemporary philosophy of religion.
He has recently been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship to carry out his research in Germany. Until August 2016, he will be working at Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität in Münster, on a monograph on “the Münster Circle”, a group of mystically-inclined thinkers writing at the end of the 18th century. Dan is particularly interested in a philosopher called François Hemsterhuis, and how his understanding of philosophical mysticism impacts on the way philosophy should be presented and written out.
“I am really excited about this chance given me by the Humboldt Foundation to expand my scholarship and expertise into some thrilling areas of intellectual history. This is a great opportunity for me to do some proper archival work in the history of philosophy and hopefully emerge again into the light of day in Summer 2016 with something really, really interesting.”
Over the last couple of years, Dan has been trying to further the contribution philosophy of religion might make to the UK impact agenda through an AHRC Connected Communities grant, working with Daniel Hill on law and religion, and an AHRC networking grant in collaboration with the University of Chester, Liverpool Hope University and a number of faith groups, that has tried to identify the ways in which philosophy of religion can and should impact on religious practice.
Dan has also been working closely with the University’s Centre for Health, Arts and Sciences, currently collaborating with the VG&M to bring together an exhibition for the 2016 Biennial to celebrate and promote medical humanities research across the University.
Dan is currently preparing the Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Theology for publication. Find out more about his publications on his website.
The Faculty is now reflecting on REF outcomes and making plans with each discipline to further enhance areas of strength and address areas for improvement, embedding actions into plans within Departments and Schools. In almost every respect, the Faculty has improved its research performance, with several Units of Assessment performing strongly. In particular, Architecture, Archaeology and Egyptology, and English were ranked in the top 10 for overall 3*/4* research activity and Law and the Management School were ranked highly by the same measure. In addition, many of our submissions including Communication and Media, Music, Philosophy, Modern Languages and Cultures, and Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology enhanced their position within the sector from RAE 2008. We would like to thank everyone for their hard work in preparing for the submission and
congratulate the Faculty on these achievements.
January 2015
Embarking on a new project? What about Ethics?
Ethics is a continuous reflective process, embedded throughout the lifespan of research. Nearly every study raises questions about ethics that need to be considered and addressed. All research involving human participants, their tissues or data requires ethical approval from one of the University Research Ethics Committees.
Most funders have specific requirements regarding ethics, and publishers will often request evidence of ethical approval. The ethics review process is designed to strengthen research by embedding consideration of those who partake in research into the development of the research design.
In order to maintain a flexible and responsive ethical review process, two types of review exist: expedited review and full committee review. More details can be found on the research ethics webpages. If you have any questions regarding research ethics, please contact Matthew Billington ([email protected]).
Professor Barry Godfrey and Dr Jenny Rivers
Humanities and Social Sciences Research and KE Newsletter
New University Repository to store and manage research outputs
The University Repository has replaced TULIP's function as the database for research publication details. It also allows for the full text of outputs to be made available online, an important requirement of the next REF. This new system makes academic publications available in a structured database that can be publicly searched both through its own interface and through general and academic-specific search engines (e.g. Google Scholar or OAIster).
To deliver the most robust and correct data, meeting required standards for HEFCE and Open Access which will be vital for the next REF, the Repository should now be used to enter all publication details.
To ensure that there is no need to enter information twice, the Repository and TULIP have been linked in such a way that publication details entered into the Repository (ensuring better quality data and allowing the full text to be uploaded) are then pulled into TULIP, which continues to feed data into portfolios of activity, staff web pages etc.
More detail is available on the Repository Blog, and a guide to depositing items is available from the Repository home page. More information and useful links about Open Access policy are available on the Library website. For help with specific problems, email [email protected].
Funding Opportunities
“Uses of the Past” – Joint research programme from the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), 9 April 2015, £1.2m.
This call aims to shed a new light on how European, non-European or global pasts are actively and instrumentally used, and to what ends, always taking into account an explicit connection to past or present debates or transformations in Europe.
AHRC Collaborative research grants – São Paulo Research Foundation. These grants enable transnational British and Brazilian teams to apply for funding for collaborative research projects (up to £2m).
Look out for more Funding Opportunities every week in the Faculty Bulletin and on Twitter @livuniHSS
Congratulations to…
Dr Sofia Lampropoulou (English) is one of the Co-Investigators of an ESRC grant (£1.4m) that has been awarded to Professor Caroline Rowland (Psychology) in collaboration with colleagues from the University’s Institute of Psychology Health and Society, the Universities of Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds. The project ‘Promoting language development via shared reading’ brings together a multi-disciplinary team in psychology, linguistics, education, English and speech and language therapy, and aims to determine how shared reading promotes child language development, and use this knowledge to make it an effective language boosting tool for children from all social and economic backgrounds.
Dr Pippa Hunter-Jones and Dr Lynn Sudbury-Riley (Management School) have received funding from the East Cheshire Hospice to conduct research to understand more fully the impact East Cheshire Hospice has on the patients, carers and families which use the Hospice service. The main objective is to develop a systematic tool capable of examining and reporting the factors which contribute to the service experience of each community in a systematic and robust manner.
Dr Anna Bocking-Welch (History) was awarded a Grants-in-Aid worth £2.2k by the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York to conduct research in the Center's archival collections. Her project, ‘Friends in Foreign Places: International Understanding in Post-War Civil Society’, aims to understand the changing practices and discourses of internationalism within post-war British and American civic society.
Prof Simeon Yates (Institute of Culture Capital) has been awarded £6k by the Society for Lybian Studies to conduct research on the cultures of everyday Internet use in Arab societies. The project develops the work of his PhD student and colleague Mohamed Gharssalla. It will extend Mohamed's survey work drawing in lessons from OXIS and OFCOM surveys to consider the everyday use of the internet by citizens of Arab nations.
Dr Alex Balch (Politics) has been awarded £8k by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to organise a seminar series on ‘The new agenda on Modern Slavery and Labour Exploitation in the UK’. Participants will include academics, government and policy experts, as well as key NGOs and campaigning groups, aiming to seek concrete improvements in policy and practice. The first seminar will take place in Spring 2015 and there will be three further events over the following 12 months. For more information please contact Alex ([email protected]), visit www.forcedlabour.org or follow @FLMGuk on Twitter for updates about the events.
Dr Christina Malathouni (Architecture) was part of the team which won this year’s Heritage Alliance Heroes Award for its ‘Save Preston Bus Station’ campaign. The campaign concluded a 15-year battle to save the celebrated 1960s landmark from demolition. The award, announced last month, is made annually and celebrates the outstanding contribution to society made by heritage volunteers in England.
