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BBC contributors database -  50/50 project 

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BBC contributors database -  50/50 project 

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Finding diverse voices to reflect our audience

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MENTION your location, availability, links and key words. 

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MENTION your location, availability, links and key words. 

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AHTV - free (apply to AHRC for tickets and possibly travel) in person and online, Autumn 2024 in London (TBC)

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AHTV - free (apply to AHRC for tickets and possibly travel) in person and online, Autumn 2024 in London (TBC)

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The TV Festival - Bringing the TV Industry Together

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Exploring Research in TV Are you an academic interested in how you could work with or in the TV industry? Or are you looking for access to the latest academic research for your TV production? This is the event where we bring you all together.Created in partnership between The TV Foundation and the AHRC, AHTV

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"The whole program is firmly rooted in both historical & contemporary actuality & closely interwoven into the conflicts & contradictions that we are faced with now, thus manifesting cinema both as consolation & a radical platform for change."

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Sheffield DocFest is an international film and arts festival and marketplace, with a mission to spark imaginations and empower our capacity for change by celebrating, championing and debating documentary film and art as a collective form of engagement.

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New Generation Thinkers  - this is last year’s but it gives an idea and timescales

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New Generation Thinkers  - this is last year’s but it gives an idea and timescales

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We are running this funding opportunity on the new UKRI Funding Service. You cannot apply on the Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S) system.

The project lead is responsible for completing the application process on the UKRI Funding Service.

To apply:

1. Select 'Start application' near the beginning of this page.

2. Confirm you are the project lead.

3. Sign in or create a UKRI Funding Service account. To create an account, select your organisation, verify your email address, and set a password. If your organisation is not listed, email support@funding-service.ukri.org.

4. Answer questions directly in the text boxes. You can save your answers and come back to them, or work offline and return to copy and paste your answers. All questions and assessment criteria are listed in the 'How to apply' section on this Funding finder page.

5. Send the completed application to your research office for checking. They will return it to you if it needs editing.

6. Your research office will submit the completed and checked application to UKRI.

Watch our research office webinars about the new UKRI Funding Service.

Submitting your application

To apply:

1. Select the 'Start application' button at the start of this page.

2. This will open the 'Sign in' page of UKRI's Funding Service. If you do not already have an account, you'll be able to create one. This is a two minute process requiring you to verify your email address and set a password.

3. Start answering the questions detailed in this section of 'How to apply'. You can save your work and come back to it later. You can also work 'offline', copying and pasting into the text boxes provided for your answers.

4. Once complete, use the service to send your application to your research office for review. They'll check it and return it to you if it needs editing.

5. Once happy, your research office will submit it to UKRI for assessment. Only they can do this.

Deadline

The AHRC must receive your application by 3 October 2023 4:00 pm UK time. You will not be able to apply after this time.

Make sure you are aware of and follow any internal institutional deadlines.

Personal data

Processing personal data

We will need to collect some personal information to manage your funding service account and the registration of your funding applications.

We will handle personal data in line with UK data protection legislation and manage it securely. For more information, including how to exercise your rights, read our privacy notice.

We will need to share the application and any personal information that it contains with the BBC so that they can participate in the assessment process. For more information on how BBC uses personal information, visit BBC policies and guidelines.

Publication of outcomes

We will publish the outcomes of this funding opportunity in April 2024. If your application is successful, some personal information will be published via the UKRI Gateway to Research.

UKRI Funding Service: section guidance

Summary

Focusing on one aspect of your research, give a clear outline of your idea including the format your programme would take

Keep in mind this will be for a non-academic audience. The assessors are looking for ideas that:

Word count: 250

Applicants

Assign yourself as project lead.

You should only have one project lead.

Find out more about UKRI's new grant roles and eligibility.

Word count: 250

Section: Personal eligibility

Question: You must be a UK resident, aged 18 or over and select one of the eligibility criteria listed.

Please select which of the three categories describes you best, then enter 'A', 'B' or 'C' in the space provided:

A: you are currently studying for your first PhD and have made considerable progress on your research, for example being within one year of submitting your thesis.

B: you are within eight years of the award of your first PhD, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave, caring responsibilities, health reasons, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic.

C: you are within six years of your first academic appointment at an organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UK Research and Innovation, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave, caring responsibilities, health reasons, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic. This must be a paid contract of employment, either full-time or part-time, which lists research or teaching as the primary function, including research assistantships.

You only need to meet one of the criteria above, though you may meet more.

Please also add a description of your current situation and how this meets your selected criteria.

Word count: 100

Section: Topic eligibility

Question: Identify the primary focus of your current research.

Your research could involve bringing together arts and humanities research with other non-AHRC-funded disciplines. We welcome interdisciplinary research, but your current work must have one of these main arts and humanities topics at its heart:

archaeology

classics

cultural and museum studies

development studies

history

information and communication technologies

law and legal studies

library and information studies

philosophy

political science and international studies

theology, divinity and religion

dance

design

drama and theatre studies

media

music

languages and literature

linguistics

visual arts

In the space provided, state your main subject discipline. This needs to be one of the disciplines listed in pages 88 to 95 of the level two list in the AHRC research funding guide.

Word count: 100

Section: Your current research activity

Question: Briefly describe what you are researching and its broader relevance to a non-academic audience.

Provide a brief explanation of the current arts and humanities research you are undertaking.

The assessors are looking for research that is:

new, unique, interesting or challenges current thinking

evidenced, scholarly and well written

Word count: 250

Section: Your research history

Question: List the academic institutions where you have been based, the years you were there and the research you undertook.

Include all the academic institutions for whom you have carried out research. Start with the most recent; describe what you did and how you did it, providing any interesting outcomes. You should set this out in the same way you might set out a CV.

The assessors are particularly looking for:

a breadth of research interest

high standards of scholarship

Word count: 250

Section: Write a review

Question: Review a new film, play, novel, book of poetry, exhibition, or any other cultural event of which you have personal and recent experience.

This should be of interest to, and written for, a non-academic audience and must be on a topic and discipline separate from your research.

Write the review as if you were going to read it on air as a short essay for BBC Radio 3. You can listen to examples online on the BBC website.

Remember that the 'Free Thinking' programme makes a link between arts and ideas, so your review will need to explore ideas within or prompted by the work and not simply discuss its apparent quality.

The assessors are particularly looking for:

links between arts and ideas, where you explore ideas within or prompted by the work

comfort with communicating ideas outside of your research area in an interesting, well written and engaging manner

editorial and stylistic suitability for a Radio 3 audience

Word count: 250

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Develop research for BBC platforms: New Generation Thinkers 2024

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This prestigious scheme offers early career researchers the opportunity to develop programmes for the BBC.

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Smart Talkers - The Academic Ideas Lab emails out occasional opportunities for onscreen/on air roles and paid behind-the-scenes consultancy roles. Just email and ask to be put on the ‘Smart Talkers’ email list, it is free.

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Smart Talkers - The Academic Ideas Lab emails out occasional opportunities for onscreen/on air roles and paid behind-the-scenes consultancy roles. Just email and ask to be put on the ‘Smart Talkers’ email list, it is free.

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X e.g @broadcastnow – and  follow commissioners and production companies  

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X e.g @broadcastnow – and  follow commissioners and production companies  

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Most channels have some kind of commissioning page but it may not be very detailed, or very up to date! Eg -

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Most channels have some kind of commissioning page but it may not be very detailed, or very up to date! Eg -

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning Gateway for both BBC TV and BBC radio. http://www.itv.com/commissioning

https://www.channel4.com/4producers

Radio 4 (main round in spring)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/radio/speech-opportunities

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January 2018 ‘Research for All’ journal paper ‘Can the research impact of broadcast programming be determined?’ by Melissa Grant, Lucy Vernall and Kirsty Hill, Research for All Volume 2 Issue 1 

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January 2018 ‘Research for All’ journal paper ‘Can the research impact of broadcast programming be determined?’ by Melissa Grant, Lucy Vernall and Kirsty Hill, Research for All Volume 2 Issue 1 

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Archaeology International Architecture_MPS Europe and the World: A law review Film Education Journal History Education Research Journal International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning International Journal of Social Pedagogy Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry Journal of Bentham Studies London Review of Education Radical Americas Research for All The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society The London Journal of Canadian Studies

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Your research has been broadcast to millions – but how do you determine its impact? LSE blog 

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Your research has been broadcast to millions – but how do you determine its impact? LSE blog 

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The potential of broadcast programming to reach millions of people holds obvious appeal to researchers looking to maximise the dissemination of their work. But when it comes to impact, having vast reach is just one part of the equation - how can the significance of broadcast research be determined? Melissa Grant, Lucy Vernall and Kirsty Hill developed a mixed-methods approach, using questionnaires and focus groups, that sought to measure the impact of health-related research broadcast in two programmes on prime time television. Follow-up work conducted after the broadcasts showed that participants' understanding of the issues had subsequently been enhanced, with a number revealing that they had changed their behaviours as a result of the research.
When the media calls to say "we're interested in your research", it's certainly a rather flattering moment. There may have been a bit of run-up and brokering for this to happen, and it may be just the first step on a long road, with quite a while passing before the research is broadcast. But at some point beyond this, the REF-aware researcher will begin to think about what impact this might produce and how exactly to measure that. The media has a pervasive role in the communication of research; whether a short announcement or a feature-length documentary, the content can be broadcast to millions of people in a very short space of time. So reach, one aspect of REF impact assessment, may be high - but what about significance? That short space of time might not be long enough to leave a lasting impression.

We have been collaborating on an evaluation of this type of significance. In January we published an article in Research for All exploring the evaluation of research presented on television. By using a pragmatic mixed-methods approach, we attempted to measure the impact of research broadcast in two one-hour factual health-related programmes on prime time television. The reach of engaging with TV programming did not disappoint, with an average of 2.5million viewers (11 per cent of the total evening's viewers) across the two programmes, the majority of whom watched on the night of the broadcast (data obtained from the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board) in the UK. To determine the significance of these broadcasts, our approach required participants for questionnaires (to be completed before and after the broadcasts) and focus groups, and Twitter data mining, as a specific hashtag was associated with the programmes.

There were many hurdles along the way, such as recruitment and retention of participants, and the effect of participants being aware they were taking part in research. These are well known and can be countered by using professional recruitment companies and through reimbursement of time and expenses. For our focus groups we employed a professional recruitment agency to target particular demographics. The targeting is important to ensure the evaluation is addressing the views of that programme's likely audience in terms of age, gender, socioeconomic group, etc. If participants do not mirror the audience the evaluation may underestimate the impact. For instance our self-selecting participants were recruited through our own networks and had a slightly higher educational level compared to those of the focus groups and the likely viewers.

We were particularly interested in discovering if the broadcasts increased the knowledge of the participants and, in the case of the focus groups, if this translated into behaviour changes that could alter their health. Indeed we saw quite a leap in knowledge in some cases, as demonstrated by some participants correctly answering certain questions after the viewing compared to before. However we also found that in response to some questions the audience certainly initially knew more than we were expecting. The focus groups in particular allowed for new topics to come out that could be useful for expanding or targeting research in the future. In addition, focus group participants were contacted nine weeks later and asked if they had changed any habits to the benefit of their health: 30 per cent revealed that they had. This indicates that the impact did indeed have significance in addition to its documented reach.

Image credit: TVintage by Ajeet Mestry, via Unsplash (licensed under a CC0 1.0 license).

Mining Twitter elicited nearly 1,300 tweets but only one per cent were relevant to our research themes and it was impossible to say if there was lasting change in knowledge or habits, as the majority were made during the hours of broadcast and responded directly to what was shown on screen. So, fascinating as it was to see the response to the programmes without any kind of intervention, this route did not necessarily provide information about impact but rather on different audiences and topics to engage with in the future.

Overall we found an indication that broadcast programming did indeed have a significant impact, coupled with a wide reach. The evaluation went beyond what might be the norm for the assessment of a media broadcast - particularly in the eyes of the broadcasters, where this is largely just a numbers game. The evaluation required investment of both time and money but we feel this kind of engaged investigation is important not only to find out about the value of the initial broadcast, but also to help connect with the audience to find new ways forward, potentially in partnership in the future.
This blog post is based on the authors' article, "Note: This article gives the views of the authors, and not the position of the LSE Impact Blog, nor of the London School of Economics. Please review our About the authors Melissa Grant Lucy Vernall Kirsty Hill is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham's School of Dentistry using quantitative and qualitative methods to study oral health and its impact on the general population. , Academic Ideas Lab, works at the interface of broadcast and research, helping to simulate new TV and radio programmes based on research, and to capture evidence of resulting impact. is a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham's School of Dentistry using quantitative methods, such as mass spectrometry of saliva, to study oral health, particularly associated with gum disease (periodontitis). comments policy if you have any concerns on posting a comment below. Can the research impact of broadcast programming be determined?", published in Research For All (DOI: 10.18546/RFA.02.1.11).

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Your research has been broadcast to millions - but how do you determine its impact?

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The potential of broadcast programming to reach millions of people holds obvious appeal to researchers looking to maximise the dissemination of their work. But when it comes to impact, having vast ...

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BritDoc Impact Field Guide and Toolkit, useful for planning broadcast impact and for evaluation, you need to sign up to download but it is free

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BritDoc Impact Field Guide and Toolkit, useful for planning broadcast impact and for evaluation, you need to sign up to download but it is free

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A set of tools and guides designed to help all of us who are working with film make even greater impact than we do already.

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Art and Design, Goldsmiths, Springwatch 

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Impact case study : Results and submissions : REF 2021

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The impact case study database allows you to browse and search for impact case studies submitted to the REF 2021. Use the search and filters below to find the impact case studies you are looking for.

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Art and Design, Portsmouth, A House Through Time

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Art and Design, Portsmouth, A House Through Time

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Impact case study : Results and submissions : REF 2021

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Contributing to the broadcasting success and global reputation of a UK based TV company

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Impact case study : Results and submissions : REF 2021

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UCL’s research has led to impacts in three key areas: algorithms, modelling disease outbreaks, and non-Newtonian fluids. Through research, its application and public engagement, Dr Hannah Fry and Professor Helen Wilson have cultivated a greater awareness of the use of mathematics applied to real-world scenarios. Engagement via broadcast and press media as well as social media have increased the appreciation of mathematics in a global audience of millions. Outreach engagements with schools have had a strong and positive impact on encouraging further studies in mathematics among GCSE and A-level students. By presenting female mathematicians as role models, they demonstrated that mathematics is not a purely male pursuit.

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1DigitTV makes documentaries and current affairs films and programmes on largely social issues, or stories involving social issues, including investigative journalism. Our first feature is about land grabs and human-rights abuses in Uganda. We are developing a documentary about housing issues in London as a feature.

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In One Night, three friends discover the past is never really gone. In the present day, the pressure is on for Ronnie O'Sullivan, while hundreds of people are trying to win the real-life adaptation of Squid Game. Meanwhile, the Doctor is back and whizzing about all time.

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In One Night, three friends discover the past is never really gone. In the present day, the pressure is on for Ronnie O'Sullivan, while hundreds of people are trying to win the real-life adaptation of Squid Game. Meanwhile, the Doctor is back and whizzing about all time.

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Sign up to any free newsletters and find the free events, you don’t always have to be a member to attend

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Sign up to any free newsletters and find the free events, you don’t always have to be a member to attend

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An independent British charity that supports, develops & promotes the art forms of the moving image

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Creative UK usually big festival end of Feb, specific to creative industries

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Creative UK usually big festival end of Feb, specific to creative industries

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We are here for those who dare to imagine: imagine a fairer, more prosperous world, achieved through the power of creativity.

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WFTV often allow members to bring guests to events, so make friends with a member! Lots of online events too.                                                          

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WFTV often allow members to bring guests to events, so make friends with a member! Lots of online events too.                                                          

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lucy.vernall@academicideaslab.co.uk

+44(0)121 603 3980

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What the Academic Ideas Lab can help with:

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What the Academic Ideas Lab can help with:

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Quick feedback on media opportunities for your research

Matchmaking with production companies

Supporting funding applications, applications for New Generation Thinkers etc

Impact planning, impact evaluation, impact case study support

Training/workshops on working with the media and on evaluating your impact

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Got a little bit of budget that needs spending before your financial end of year?! Happy to chat about what can be done for what you have got. Costs start at £200 with a free initial assessment – if your project/research/idea is not suitable to take on, for whatever reason, it will be turned down with feedback and without charge.

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Got a little bit of budget that needs spending before your financial end of year?! Happy to chat about what can be done for what you have got. Costs start at £200 with a free initial assessment – if your project/research/idea is not suitable to take on, for whatever reason, it will be turned down with feedback and without charge.