Applications are made through an online application form. From 5 November 2020 select the ‘Start application’ button.
You can then start answering the questions. By starting an application, you are not committed to submitting it. Equally, you can save changes as you go along and come back to it later.
Your answers must be entered directly into the text fields provided – documents cannot be uploaded. Once completed, click on the ‘Finish Survey’ button to submit your form.
Make sure you gain any required approval from your organisation and ensure you submit before the deadline at 16:00 UK time on 15 December 2020. Your application will not be sent to your research office – it will go directly to AHRC.
Guidance for applicants
You will need to answer the following questions when you apply.
1. Name of primary contact
If you belong to a research team, either a PI, CoI or research assistant in the team, can be nominated as the project’s primary contact
2. Email address
3. Research organisation
4. Project title (max 20 words)
5. Project summary (max 300 words)
Give an outline of your project, explaining how your research is explored through this project and including a summary of the project’s aims, activities, target audience, project partners (if any), and intended outcomes and potential impact.
The assessors are looking for projects that can achieve one or more of the following:
- inspire and engage the public in the census
- demonstrate creative and innovative approaches to public engagement.
6. Personal eligibility (max 150 words)
Briefly describe your current employment or education situation, whether you belong to a project team (if so, please outline team-members), and which partner(s) (if any) you intend to work with on your project.
7. Topic eligibility
Select the primary focus of your current research activity within the list of AHRC disciplines and/or ESRC disciplines.
Your research could involve bringing together arts and humanities research with other non-AHRC funded disciplines, for example, economic and social science research. Choose the subject discipline(s) that best describe(s) your research.
8. Input the total expenditure for your project (up to £10,000)
Provide an itemised budget breakdown in the text box.
9. Describe your outputs (public engagement activity) (max 250 words)
Describe your public engagement activity, listing costs against activity.
The assessors are particularly looking for:
- creative and innovative public engagement methods
- well-planned and achievable activities, that represent good value for money.
10. Describe the public audience(s) you intend to engage (max 250 words)
Who is your target public audience(s)? Explain how you have identified them, why you want to engage with them and how this project will benefit them. Tell us how you plan to make this activity accessible and how you will overcome potential difficulties in engaging this group during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The assessors are particularly looking for:
- evidence of specific and well-targeted audience(s)
- demonstration of relevance and benefit of activity to chosen audience(s)
- understanding of potential barriers to access for audience(s) and plan of how to remove barriers.
11. Describe your project outcomes and methods for evaluation (max 250 words)
Tell us how your project will make a change to the public audience(s) it engages with, and how you will evaluate its effectiveness.
The assessors are particularly looking for:
- clear outcomes
- appropriate evaluation methods.
