Programme Introduction & Contact details
AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Research Programme
Diasporas, Migration and Identities, a £6.3 million, trans-disciplinary programme, was launched in April 2005 and will run for five years. It is the first autonomous research programme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, aiming to involve scholars from a wide range of disciplines in research, reflection, discussion and public dissemination. Several different funding schemes have been initiated: small and large research projects, workshops and networks, conferences and seminars. The programme fosters interdisciplinary engagement and partnerships with the public sector, the cultural sector and the wider community.
In August 2006 the AHRC funded 15 large research projects (of 157 applications) including Tuning In: Diasporic Contact Zones at BBC World Service. Principal Investigator Prof Marie Gillespie and research team (The Open University/CRESC) were awarded £496,476.00. The final application was graded A+ by peer reviewers. Running from January 2007 to December 2009
Principal Investigator
Prof Marie Gillespie (The Open University/CRESC)
Co-applicants
Dr Jason Toynbee (The Open University)
Prof Kath Woodward (The Open University)
Prof Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS)
Senior research consultants
Dr Gerd Baumann (Amsterdam)
Dr Andrew Skuse (Adelaide)
Research Fellows
Ms Matilda Andersson
Dr Fatima Assawi
Dr Andrew Hill
Dr Farida Vis
Alban Webb
Research Associates
Prof Arnd Nohl
Dr Alasdair Pinkerton
Dr Emma Robertson
Contact Us
For further information please contact:
Project Administrator
Karen Ho
Tel +44 1908 654458
k.d.ho@open.ac.uk
Principal Investigator
Prof Marie Gillespie - Professor of Sociology
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Tel +44 1908 654458
Mob +44 7932 115535
m.gillespie@open.ac.uk
Convenor of Transformations in Media, Culture and Economy at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change.
Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded research project Diasporas and the BBC World Service