Partners issue £2m e-Science call in arts and humanities
Jisc, the Arts and
Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) have announced a major new call for bids
for research grants in the area of e-Science for the Arts and Humanities.
Grants will be awarded up to a total value of £2m, plus up to six 4-year
postgraduate studentships.
This is the main part of a joint initiative of the three
funders which extends the national e-Science programme to arts and
humanities research. A scoping survey, nine workshops and demonstrators,
and an Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre have already been
funded.
e-Science stands for a specific set of advanced
technologies for collaboration and sharing resources across the Internet:
so-called grid technologies, and technologies integrated with them, for
instance for authentication, data-mining and visualization.
'This is an important new initiative by the three
key players in the field,' says David Robey, Director of the
AHRC's ICT Programme. 'e-Science has already had a transforming
impact on U.K. science, technology, and medicine. It is increasingly
important for the social sciences, and its impact on the arts and
humanities is potentially just as great.'
For further information please go to:
e-Science call