The key thing you need to know is that the AHRC only funds research (which can include practice based work) undertaken by permanent employees of recognised research institutions (Universities, other HEI's and some national museums and research institutes). Artists cannot apply. For art projects you go to your regional arts council.
What artists can do is develop something like a Fellowship proposal with somebody who is employed in a University. These can be for up to 9 months. They require the proposed fellow, who will be hosted by the institution, has a PhD or experience equivalent to that (this is undefined but usually means something like 6 years professional experience with a track record of exhibitions, publications and conference presentations). An early career fellowship allows those with less experience (but still of post-doc standing) to apply for similar funds - but then these fellows have a mentor. There use to be a Creative Arts Fellowship programme but that was discontinued last year. Bummer. It was a brilliant programme and probably the one you have been told about. Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: dave miller <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:01:22 +0000 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] funding opportunities > > The other day someone told me about the AHRC and that they have grants > for digital art. It struck me that this could be a solution to my > problem of doing part-time jobs to make ends meet, which leaves me > tired and without enough time for creative work. > > To get funding to concentrate on creative work sounds perfect. Or is > it? Seems to me the funding gives you credibility as well as money. > > Here's the AHRC website: > http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/default.aspx > > Does anyone on this list have experience of doing this? > Is it very difficult to get funding? Do you have to be very established? > > cheers, dave > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
