Research Clusters at LeedsFaculty of Arts

Stuart Taberner

Context

• Significant energy put into to developing interdisciplinary research groupings

• Pumppriming from the Faculty and the University

• Dedicated support from the LHRI, particularly in administration and grant-capture

• Buy-outs for staff time

Results

• Some excellent initiatives

• Some significant grant capture

• Some more active than others

• Some ‘pure’ research, some with strong interests in teaching and KT

• Our ‘Impact’ agenda often emerging around these clusters

• Not enough collaboration outside Leeds

Large Clusters

• White Rose East Asia Centre (society, literature, but also politics and economics)

• Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies – 40-50 members.

• Popular Cultures Network – 100 members across faculties and institutions

• The Mixed Cinema Network – across three universities, 30 members

Clusters with large grant capture

• White Rose Centre for East Asia – £4m, with second continuation funding going in

• ICPS – significant AHRC networks and AHRC KT grants, as well as Leverhulme

• Institute for Religion in Public Life – Major awards under AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society programme

• The Centre for History of Science and Philosophy of Science – ‘Owning and Disowning Invention’ (360k from AHRC)

• The Centre for Aesthetics - £650k from ahrc, ‘Method in Philsophical Aesthetics: The Challenge from The Sciences’

• The Centre for Translation Studies – major EU awards in computer-assisted translation

• The Mixed Cinema Network – White Rose and Leverhulme awards

Clusters with a Teaching/KT Dimension

• Dante Centre – public lectures (100+); podcasts (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/cdspodcast.htm); and student conferences (as well as significant research collaborations, e.g. Notre Dame)

• Institute for Religion in Public Life – public lectures, interactions with local community groups, museums and galleries

• The Centre for History of Science and Philosophy of Science – collaborations with museums, including Royal Armouries

New Developments

• Print, Culture and Society – University Transformation Bid (£5m), with 50 members across the University

• From Honour to Respect: Violence and Identity (with significant KT dimensions)

• Medicine and the Everyday – 50 members across faculties; Wellcome Trust MH

Contacts

• All clusters actively looking for collobations, particularly on grant-capture

• Contacts in the handout