scholarly journals Fishing, Fishing Boats and Traditional Lore Based on Maritime Memorates Collected in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Ireland and Scotland

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Séamus Mac Mathúna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Scottish Gaelic ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Uk

This paper will analyse and assess material contained in a corpus of maritime memorates, or stories of the sea, collected in Ireland and Scotland, in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is based on the Ulster University research project ‘Stories of the Sea: A Typological Study of Maritime Memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and aims to add to previous published studies on this subject, including Fomin and Mac Mathúna 2010, 2015, 2016. The focus of this paper is on matters relating to fishing, fishermen and their boats, in Ireland, especially on the Gaelic-speaking western seaboard, and to a lesser extent in Scotland, during the period under consideration. Most of the narrators and some of the collectors themselves were fishermen, and the close bond and shared beliefs and taboos between informant and collector serves to emphasise the personal nature of the accounts. The information gained from these stories is supplemented here by works of other writers and scholars on Irish vernacular boats and on the practice of fishing and the legends, taboos and other matters associated with it.

scholarly journals Maritime Memorates and Contemporary Legends of Storm Apparitions and Storm Making in Folklore Traditions of Ireland and Scotland*

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 154-162
Author(s):  
Maxim Fomin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Scottish Gaelic ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

The present article examines the folklore genre of maritime memorates of Irish and Scottish origin. It describes the maritime traditions of Gauls when various supernatural creatures and inanimate objects appeared from the sea, as well as the spells and magic tricks producing winds. The article studies contemporary legends which tell about omens and visions bewitching a storm. * This contribution is based upon the findings of the research project ‘Stories of the Sea: A Typological Study of Maritime Memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’ supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK).

Archives of the Dance (21): Siobhan Davies Dance Online

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH WHATLEY
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Uk

In 2006, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant was awarded to researchers at Coventry University to create a digital archive of the work of Siobhan Davies Dance. The award is significant in acknowledging the limited resources readily available to dance scholars as well as to dance audiences in general. The archive, Siobhan Davies Dance Online, 1 will be the first digital dance archive in the UK. Mid-way through the project, Sarah Whatley, who is leading the project, reflects on some of the challenges in bringing together the collection, the range of materials that is going to be available within the archive and what benefits the archive should bring to the research community, the company itself and to dance in general.

Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Community Evaluation ◽  
The Uk

This book articulates what it is to do collaborative interdisciplinary research drawing on projects from the UK based Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Connected Communities programme. This book tells stories of the value of collaborative research between universities and communities. It offers a set of resources for people who are interested in doing interdisciplinary research across universities and communities. It provides a lexicon of key ideas that researchers might find useful when approaching this kind of work. The book aims to enhance ways of doing collaborative research in order to improve the ways in which that kind of research is practiced and understood. Nine chapters, based on particular projects, articulate this value in different ways drawing on different research paradigms. Chapters include discussions of tangible and intangible value, an articulation of performing and animation as forms of knowing, explorations of such initiatives as community evaluation, a project on the role of artists in collaborative projects and ways in which tools such as community evaluation, mapping and co-inquiry can aid communities and universities to work together. Chapters also focus on the translation of such research across borders and the legacy of such research within universities and communities. The book ends by mapping the future directions of such research.

scholarly journals The rationale for the DREaM: Developing Research Excellence and Methods Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (110) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel Hall ◽  
Stephanie Kenna ◽  
Charles Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Excellence ◽  
The Uk

The article describes the background to the development of the DREaM project, which is aimed at expanding the range of skills of UK-based researchers in the LIS field, and at developing a network of active researchers, both in academia and amongst LIS practitioners. The project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council involves two major conferences and a number of workshops throughout the UK starting in July 2011. Details of the events, and how the project will be evaluated, are provided.

Resistance

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

This chapter discusses the antagonism and resistance directed against the ARHB. When the Dearing Report first appeared, the University of Oxford stood against the establishment of a separate Research Council for humanities. It expressed doubts about the new public funding of such a new organization and on the transfer of control of expenditure away from the universities to a council envisaged as the instrument of a national policy for research in arts and humanities. Cambridge University also expressed, albeit not as adamantly as Oxford, their disapproval of a Humanities Research Council. Adding to these disapprovals were the conflicts it had caused in the contemporary UK political life, particularly with devolution. In the devolution process of the UK government, one of the devolved powers was education, which created adverse effects on the formulation of Humanities Research Council. The AHRB also met with criticism from other councils including the journals and newspapers of the UK.

Back on to the Agenda

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Financing Higher Education ◽  
Research Facilities

This chapter discusses the reintegration of the need for Humanities Research Council back onto the public agenda and into the policy stream of the UK government. The issue of the Research Council for the humanities came into public and governmental attention when it was fastened to the dilemmas of financing higher education, which itself was tied to the uncertainty of the UK economy. In May 1996, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment together with Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland appointed Chairman Ron Dearing to create a body that would inquire into the higher education system of the UK. In 1997, the committee produced a report, Higher Education in a Learning Society, or the Dearing Report. The report charted a course for higher education in the UK for the next twenty years. This so-called intellectual capital called for a higher quality of teaching and the need for researchers and research facilities. It offered 93 specific recommendations, among which was a recommendation advocating the immediate establishment of a new Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In 1998, the government recognized the need for the establishment of a research council for humanities and announced the provision of £8M in 1998–1999 for arts and humanities research, albeit after lengthy considerations.

“A Sound Track of Your Life”: Music in Contemporary Uk Funerals

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Adamson ◽  
Margaret Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Sound Track ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Funeral Music ◽  
The Uk

This article considers the role that music plays in contemporary UK funerals and the meaning that the funeral music has for bereaved families. It is based on findings from a recently completed study of 46 funerals funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Music contributes to the public ceremony and the personal existential quest of the bereaved. It is important to both the content and process of the contemporary funeral, an event of deep cultural significance in our response as individuals and communities to death and the loss of a significant relationship. There is evidence that for many people, the music chosen and used also evokes and conveys their spirituality. Spirituality may not be intrinsic to the music but spiritual experience may result from the meaning that the music has for that particular person.

Missioners on the Margins? The Territorial Headquarters of the Welsh Jesuit College of St Francis Xavier at The Cwm, c.1600–1679

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Jesuit College ◽  
The Uk

This paper will discuss the history of the College of St Francis Xavier, the Welsh territorial district of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, and the history of Jesuit association with its headquarters, the Cwm farms at Llanrothal, near Hereford. One of 12 territorial divisions created by the Society of Jesus upon the creation of the English Province by 1623, the College of St Francis Xavier and its extensive surviving library, now housed at Hereford Cathedral, is being analysed as part of a three-year project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council [AHRC]. The article argues for a re-evaluation of the Welsh District and its importance to the successes of the English Jesuit Province, concluding that, far from being a small, local missionary outpost of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, the College of St Francis Xavier, or the Welsh District, was in fact a diverse, vibrant and crucially important lynchpin in the successes of the Jesuits in England and Wales.

scholarly journals What have we learnt? A year on from the first UK Community Partner Summit

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Aumann ◽  
Angie Hart ◽  
Sophie Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
To Come ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk

Following an observed need to build community partner infrastructure and support to enhance community-university partnerships, a successful bid was made to the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. This funding provided an opportunity for community partners to come together with engaged academics at the first ever UK Community Partner Summit. They resolved to set up a community partner network to help build capacity for effective community-university partnerships, and to influence the policy environment which supports this work. This article reflects on the activity of the working group in seeking to establish the network, and introduces some of the concepts that have proved critical to its development. Drawing on a wealth of perspectives from a range of sources including academic and grey literature, community partner experiences, and international work, we open up some of the challenges that we have faced, and explore some of the implications of our first year’s work together. We reflect on the time it takes to establish any form of network, the need to be clear about definitions and boundaries, and the challenge of changing cultures. We conclude that the progress with the network to date is encouraging, and we look forward to building on our learning thus far, to develop stronger community-university partnerships of the future.Keywords: community partner infrastructure and networks, partnership resilience, community-university partnership

scholarly journals Mapping cinema memories: Emotional geographies of cinemagoing in Rome in the 1950s

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Ercole ◽  
Daniela Treveri Gennari ◽  
Catherine O’Rawe
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Italian Cinema ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Film Distribution ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
The Uk

This article, based on the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded project ‘In Search of Italian Cinema Audiences in the 1940s and 1950s: Gender, Genre and National Identity’, explores the power of geovisualization for capturing the affective geographies of cinema audiences. This mapping technique, used in our project to interrogate the Italian exhibition sector as well as to map film distribution, is used to illustrate the affective and emotional dimensions of cartographic practices related to memory. The article first examines the imbrication of memory and space, before moving on to a discussion of our mapping of the memories of one single respondent and the questions this mapping raises about geographical and remembered space, mobility and the relation between mapping and life-cycles.

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