Welcome to the AHRC Science in Culture Theme Website
Science in Culture is one of four themes identified by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as a focus for research funding.
The AHRC Themes are identified as emerging areas of interest to arts and humanities researchers and are likely to shape or change aspects of multiple research fields in future years.
The Science in Culture Theme aims to encourage mutual exchange between researchers working across the Sciences and the Arts and Humanities.
Science in Culture will foster interdisciplinary working between researchers in the sciences and the arts and humanities in order to pursue topics that cannot be successfully addressed by either side alone.
News
Professor Colin Blakemore discusses AHRC grant ‘Rethinking the Senses’ on Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 10/02/14
Professor Colin Blakemore appeared on BBC Radio 4, Start the Week, on Monday 10th February to discuss his AHRC Large Grant ‘Rethinking the Senses’ awarded as part of the Science in Culture Theme. Colin Blakemore described the project, which brings together...
Blog
Big Data in the Humanities: The Need for Big Questions
This blog post is by Professor Barry C Smith, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and the Leadership Fellow for the AHRC Science in Culture Theme. I’ve just returned from Silicon Valley and the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data at which there was a...