AHRC IAA Funded Projects

The University of Birmingham holds an AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) which aims to enhance the non-academic impact from Arts and Humanities research at the University of Birmingham. The projects funded from the AHRC IAA are listed below. The activities supported include enabling a range of events to take place, resources to be developed and shared with public audiences and user communities, and partnerships with external non-academic organisations to be established or extended.

User Engagement Fund

The User Engagement Fund fosters non-academic impact by supporting early-stage engagement with research user communities.

Project Lead	College	School	Title
Rebecca Mitchell	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Pre-Raphaelite Revisions
Norma Schifano	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Hablemos de cómo hablamos (HdcH) ("Let’s talk about how we talk")
Alexander Cannon	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Sounding by Heritage: SinoVietnamese Musical Collaboration in the UK
Jon Oldfield	Life and Environmental Sciences	School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences	Geoengineering the climate
Lisa Bortolotti	Arts & Law	School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion	A Birmingham Philosophy Museum: The First Steps
Toria Johnson	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	The Local/Global Birnam Oak
Dorothy Butchard	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	From Mosaics to Pixels: Eduardo Paolozzi in the Midlands Project website Details of Heritage Open Day 2023 event
Claire French	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Representing British Muslim multilingualism in Birmingham: Soul City Arts and the national stage
Charlotte Bendall	Arts & Law	Birmingham Law School	Fragmented Families: Grandparent Experiences of Seeking Child Contact
Mónica Jato	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Memory as Transgenerational Caring: The Basque Refugee Children in the UK
Luis Manuel Garcia	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	From the Bottoms Up: Grassroots Organising and Nightlife Activism among Intersectional Queer Nightlife Collectives (Community Consultation Events)
Kate Nichols	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites: Best Practice for ‘decolonising’ Victorian Art and Design in museums and galleries
Lucy O'Sullivan	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Encarnación de Díaz: Memorias Visuales de la Cristiada (Encarnación de Díaz: Visual Memories of the Cristero War)
Sophie Hatchwell	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Transforming Co-production Practices in Public Galleries using Art-historical Research

Follow-on Fund

The Follow-on Fund supports the development of innovative and experimental forms of impact and knowledge exchange informed by existing or on-going research.

Project Lead	College	School	Title
Faye Sayer	Arts & Law	School of History and Cultures	Heritage Sites, Wellbeing and Transformative Community Partnerships
Emma Wagstaff	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Creative Translation in Schools
Michaela Mahlberg	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	CLiC Creative
Andrew Kirkman	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Reconstructing and recording Jacob Obrecht’s Mass Scaramella
Sara Jones	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Antisemitism and Holocaust Education in Transnational Perspective: CrossCountry Learning between the UK and Ukraine
Rebecca Mitchell	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Pre-Raphaelite Revisions Part 2
Katharina Karcher	Arts & Law	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Young people and knives a creative approach to violence prevention
Nathan Cardon	Arts & Law	School of History and Cultures	Birmingham, Cycling City: Past, Present, Future
Christopher Nunn	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Children of The Wicker Man Trailer for film output
Lisa Bortolotti	Arts & Law	School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion	Towards a more cohesive digital society
Victoria Flood	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Invisible Alderley: Community Responsive Augmented Reality app
Aleksandra Cavoski	Arts & Law	Birmingham Law School	Social Barriers to Non-animal Testing
Matt Houlbrook	Arts & Law	School of History and Cultures	When We Build Again: Reimagining Utopia in a Time of Crisis

Secondment fund

The Secondment Fund supports the development of sustainable partnerships between academic and non-academic organisations.

Project Lead	College	School	Title
Sabine Lee	Arts & Law	School of History and Cultures	Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and Children Born of War (CBOW): Impact Enhancement Hub Lira [IEHL]
Andrew Davies	Arts & Law	School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion	Dreaming into Doing: Assessing the Impact of Women’s Professional Development Programmes

Interdisciplinary Activities

Impact activity that is supported by underpinning research from more than one research council's remit is funded via the Interdisciplinary Activities Fund.

Project Lead	College	School	Title
Apurav Yash Bhatiya	Social Sciences	Birmingham Business School	Improving Effectiveness of Vocational Training Programs in India
Sameen Andaleeb Mohsin Ali	Social Sciences	School fo Government	Hashiya on Tour
Sophie King-Hill	Social Sciences	School of Social Policy	We're in this Together: the Voice of Boys in Sexual Harassment
Steph Haydon	Social Sciences	School of Social Policy	Engaging with Past, Present, and Imagined Futures of Charitable Support for the NHS
Kirsty Edgar	Life and Environmental Sciences	School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences	Devising a sustainable site management plan for the UK’s smallest national nature reserve, Horn Park Quarry in Dorset
John Holmes	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Interdisciplinary Forest Education for Schools: The Role of Literature Output: A Virtual Tour of Ruskin Land
Sophie King-Hill	Social Sciences	School of Social Policy	We're in this Together Resource: the Voice of Boys in Sexual Harassment

Urgency Fund

The Urgency Fund enables rapid responses to urgent, rare, or unforeseen events (or the consequences from such events), or to take advantage of time-limited opportunities with the potential for all types of non-academic impact

Project Lead	College	School	Title
Sabine Lee	Arts & Law	School of History and Cultures	Film Screening At UN Launch Of CBOW Report By UNSRSG
Irina Kuznetsova	Life and Environmental Sciences	School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences	Promoting protection of the Ukrainian refugees in Poland and IDPs in Ukraine from genderbased violence, trafficking and exploitation Link to SEREDA CEE Campaign
Christopher Nunn	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Untold Histories of "The Wicker Man" Watch trailer for film output
Jagbir Jhutti-Johal	Arts & Law	School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion	UN Expert Panel on the protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
Sabine Lee	Arts & Law	School of History and Cultures	Atomic City
Jagbir Jhutti-Johal	Arts & Law	School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion	Sikh Representation and Engagement
Jonathan Reinarz	Medical & Dental Sciences	Institute of Applied Health Research	Forged by Fire: British Identity and Burns Injury, c. 1800-2000
Ruth Gilligan	Arts & Law	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Brixton Stories

Mentoring Fund

Supporting researchers to develop and plan effective impact and knowledge exchange activity by pairing them with a mentor experienced in developing impact from their research.

Project Lead	College	School	Title
Yan Yenny	CAL	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music	Mentoring Impact Project
Toria Johnson	CAL	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Mentoring Impact Project
Isabel Galleymore	CAL	School of English, Drama and Creative Studies	Mentoring Impact Project