UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions – Partnership Development Grants

Grant Name: UK-US Collaboration for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions – Partnership Development Grants
Deadline for submissions: 10 December 2019
Panel meeting date: w/c 6 January 2020
Funding decisions to be issued: w/c 13 January 2020
Start date of awards: Earliest 1 February 2020, Latest 14 February 2020

Sponsor
United Kingdom Government
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Amount: Upper £100,000GBP Lower £50,000GBP
Up to ten awards, worth between 50,000 and 100,000 each, are available over six to 12 months at 80 per cent of full economic costs. Some level of matched resource, either cash or in-kind, must be demonstrated to support the US component of projects.

Applicant Type:
Academic Institution
Commercial
Government
Nonprofit
Small Business

Citizenship or Residency: United States, United Kingdom
Activity location: United States, United Kingdom

Abstract
The Arts and Humanities Research Council invites applications for its partnership development grants under the UK-US collaboration for digital scholarship in cultural institutions program. These support innovative research development activities between teams in the UK and US that have the potential to deliver a transformational impact on digital methods and research in museums and cognate cultural institutions such as libraries, galleries and archives. Applications should demonstrate how the activity proposed will provide a foundation for larger, longer-term UK-US research collaboration in digital scholarship in cultural institutions, and which might be submitted to potential future funding calls delivered by the partners. Funding will support a broad range of research and partnership development activities including: pilot, developmental and exploratory research; new cross-disciplinary engagements; scoping and proof of concept activity; feasibility studies; workshops, conferences and networking; outreach, engagement and knowledge exchange activity.
Proposals should be framed around research development activity in one or more of the following thematic areas:
– machine learning and artificial intelligence;
– digitally enable participation;
– developing enhanced information on museum and cultural institution visitors;
– the automatic creation and interrogation of all document types and unlocking of new data.

Eligibility
Projects must involve an appropriate combination of research organizations and cultural institutions in the UK and US.

Keywords
Cultural or Population Studies
Digital Humanities
Information Science or Systems
Library Science
Museums

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