The AHRC subject coverage is included in the Research Funding Guide, section 7, velow some notions:

"AHRC supports research that is concerned with the culture, history, language and religion of specific regions. ESRC supports research that is concerned with the society, economy, politics and human geography of specific regions."

• Communications, cultural and media studies: through the study of the 'phenomena'. Interface between AHRC, ESRC and EPSRC is important.
• Cultural policy and management: historical, comparative and empirical research.
• Education: where the imperative for the research questions resides in the arts and humanities, with educational element.
• Gender studies: related to the creative and performing arts, language, law, literature, religion and history of all periods.
• Human geography: cultural geography.
• History (but not social and economical arrangements over time or research focusing on contemporary or near-contemporary social, political, economic or geographical themes which should normally be directed to the ESRC).
• International relationships: primary funding body.
• Librarianship and information science. Note that there is also an important interface between AHRC, ESRC and EPSRC; e.g. ESRC supports research into the broader socio-economic context of information use and policy, information flows within and between organisations, and the shaping, use and potential of information and communication technologies. The ESRC also supports research on knowledge management and on forms and structures of knowledge, as they relate to the wider socio-economic context.
• Linguistics. (ESRC supports research in areas of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and interdisciplinary social science research involving linguistics. Both Councils also fund research into phonetics and applied linguistics relating to the areas for which they are responsible).
• Law: research into the content, procedures, theory, philosophy and history of the law. This includes studies of legal systems and legislation in all periods of history and in all parts of the world. ESRC supports socio-legal studies, which are concerned with the social, political and economic influences on and impact of the law and the legal system.
• Philosophy: research in philosophy, covering all topics, methods and periods. ESRC supports research into the social political and economic influences on and effects of ethical positions of institutions and individuals.
• Religious studies (ESRC supports research that is concerned with the social and economic influences on and the impacts of religious beliefs and groups).
• Science and technology studides. (ESRC is the primary funding body)
• Social anthropology: ESRC is the primary funding body for social anthropology, but the AHRC also supports anthropological research where the research questions and methods are significantly concerned with arts and humanities phenomena and critical, historical and practice-led approaches. This includes studies of archaeology, history, language, law, literature, the creative and performing arts and religion.

• UKRI's Strategy 2022-2027 transforming tomorrrow together is available online.
• The latest UKRI Corporate Plan 2022-2025 (August 2022): "UKRI’s corporate plan demonstrates how the world-class research and innovation UKRI supports will drive economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits for all."
• AHRC Strategic Delivery Plan 2022-25 (02/09/2022):

Strategic objectives

Budget

* Infrastructure projects are detailed separately below. Note that further infrastructure allocations to Councils may be made during the Spending Review period from the Infrastructure Fund, Digital Research Infrastructure Programme and Carbon Zero Fund Programme.

Notes

i. The figures provided in this document are in line with the 2022–23 – 2024–25 budget allocations for UK Research  and Innovation. These are broken down by our budgeting and reporting categories, and exclude funding for ODA, Financial Transactions, and BEIS Managed Programmes. Figures are indicative and may vary over the course of the three-year period due to budget adjustments made as a part of on-going financial management and planning processes to maximise the use of our total funding.
ii. From 2022–23 UKRI talent investments are managed collectively across the Research Councils. The funding for collective talent activities outlined in this delivery plan are accounted for in the broader collective talent funding line included in our Corporate Plan.

* Further allocations may be made during the Spending Review period. Excludes wave 1 preliminary activities where spend was in 21/22 only. Allocations include contingency, which may be returned if unused.

• Contemporary challenges: analysing the present, and learning lessons from the past to shape a better future
• Creative economy: research supporting the recovery and growth of the cultural and creative economy
• Cultural assets: conserving, curating and maximising the impact of our museums, galleries, libraries and archives so our national collections are accessible to all
• Discovering ourselves: supporting cutting-edge rigorous enquiry-led research with international impact that leads to new discoveries and helps us understand ourselves and the world.

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Submission of proposals any time, open thematic areas within the AHRC remit.

During 2023 schemes are changing and also the Funding system to a Funding Service including a new submission tool replacing the Je-S. During this transitional time open calls are calling for deadlines for submission of proposals. Information available on the UKRI website:

• Improving your funding experience
• Simpler and Better Funding (SBF) programme 
• Council transition to the new Funding Service

Calls and changes will be followed and updates available on this website highlights and the UKRI funding finder website.

UKRI have announced a return to an open basis submission from early 2024 when the new Funding Service will be officially launched.

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• Standard Research Grant
• Curiosity Award
• Catalyst Award
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• The Global Challenges Research Fund
• Newton Fund
• International co-investigator policy
• Humanities in the Research Area HERA JPR
• JPI Cultural Heritage JPICH, Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage
• Bi-lateral agreements: Brazil-FAPESP | USA-NSF (current expiry date: 18 June 2018)

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