Research Clusters at Leeds Faculty of Arts Stuart Taberner

Context Significant energy put into to developing interdisciplinary research groupings Pumppriming from the Faculty and the University Dedicated support from the LHRI, particularly in administration and grant- capture Buy-outs for staff time

Results Some excellent initiatives Some significant grant capture Some more active than others Some ‘pure’ research, some with strong interests in teaching and KT Our ‘Impact’ agenda often emerging around these clusters Not enough collaboration outside Leeds

Large Clusters White Rose East Asia Centre (society, literature, but also politics and economics) Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies – members. Popular Cultures Network – 100 members across faculties and institutions The Mixed Cinema Network – across three universities, 30 members

Clusters with large grant capture White Rose Centre for East Asia – £4m, with second continuation funding going in ICPS – significant AHRC networks and AHRC KT grants, as well as Leverhulme Institute for Religion in Public Life – Major awards under AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society programme The Centre for History of Science and Philosophy of Science – ‘Owning and Disowning Invention’ (360k from AHRC) The Centre for Aesthetics - £650k from ahrc, ‘Method in Philsophical Aesthetics: The Challenge from The Sciences’ The Centre for Translation Studies – major EU awards in computer- assisted translation The Mixed Cinema Network – White Rose and Leverhulme awards

Clusters with a Teaching/KT Dimension Dante Centre – public lectures (100+); podcasts ( and student conferences (as well as significant research collaborations, e.g. Notre Dame) Institute for Religion in Public Life – public lectures, interactions with local community groups, museums and galleries The Centre for History of Science and Philosophy of Science – collaborations with museums, including Royal Armouries

New Developments Print, Culture and Society – University Transformation Bid (£5m), with 50 members across the University From Honour to Respect: Violence and Identity (with significant KT dimensions) Medicine and the Everyday – 50 members across faculties; Wellcome Trust MH

Contacts All clusters actively looking for collobations, particularly on grant-capture Contacts in the handout