The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and BBC Radio 3 seek applications for the New Generation Thinkers of 2014, where up to 60 successful applicants can develop programme-making ideas with experienced BBC producers, and up to ten will become Radio 3’s resident New Generation Thinkers, having a unique opportunity to develop their own programmes with topic options to include architecture and design, and with a closing date of 6 February 2014.
The AHRC writes:
BBC Radio 3 and its programmes Free Thinking (previously known as Night Waves), the Verb, the Essay and the Sunday Feature have provided a platform for debate and commentary from scholars across the world. You could now join them on air.
The New Generation Thinkers scheme also works with BBC TV Arts who will be looking to develop New Generation Thinkers and their ideas into arts television.
Applicants do not have to be funded by the AHRC to apply; the scheme is open to all early career researchers based in a UK Research Organisation (either Higher Education Institution or Independent Research Organisation [IRO]). We also encourage those people who have previously applied unsuccessfully to the scheme, even if they made it to the workshop.
We welcome applications from researchers working in all areas of the arts and humanities. This year we are extending the call for researchers who work in areas of social sciences and medical science whose work intersects with the arts and humanities. There are a series of interfaces, and many areas of common ground between. This can be seen in both cross-council programmes, Connected Communities and Life Long Health and Wellbeing.
The subject coverage for this year’s schemes covers all disciplines covered by the AHRC detailed below, including additional subjects that intersect with the work of our sister councils the ESRC and MRC. These are:
- Archaeology Architecture
- Art history
- Community arts
- Conservation of art and textiles
- Cultural geography
- Cultural policy
- Cultural studies and popular culture
- Design
- Gender and sexuality
- History
- Life writing
- Literary and cultural theory
- Media
- Museum studies
- Visual arts
- Psychology of Art
- Human Geography
- Cultural Geography.
Please note that no one research area will get preferential treatment over another. All applications will be assessed on their own merits against the application criteria.
AHRC article: LINK
