Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is celebrating ‘25 Years of Excellence and Impact’, with a snapshot of some of the incredible work it has enabled since 1998.
… We have invested over £2.5bn in arts and humanities across the UK…
United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) writes:
For 25 years, our research has been uncovering what it is to be human, and the conditions that allow us to flourish or falter. All human history is in our scope, but so are the challenges of the present and the possibilities for the future.
In that time we have become a more inclusive and flexible funder through targeted action on broadening our research base, investing at a scale unmatched by any other public arts and humanities funder in the UK.? We have invested over £2.5bn in arts and humanities across the UK, supporting jobs, improving skills and focusing support in key strategic areas for the UK’s prosperity.? These include major interventions to promote growth in creative industries, to design a more sustainable future, to embed ethics, inclusion and societal need in AI innovation, and to increase equitable access to culture that supports our health and wellbeing.
A testament to its power and impact, our funded work had an extraordinary presence and measurable impact in the last independent evaluation of the UK’s research, REF2021.
We are committed to growing people and talent, to ensuring that curiosity and the new ideas of researchers are at the heart of all that we fund. We are international in outlook and equitable in our partnering. We’re working with more communities across the UK and around the world than ever before.
We are protecting and learning from our heritage, empowering communities and putting research at the heart of the UK’s world-leading cultural institutions.
We champion cultural and creative industries for all of us and safeguard the future by understanding the past, to build fairer and better technologies.
We are open, innovative and people-centred and we create jobs, products and services driving growth, equality and prosperity all across the UK’s regions and nations.?
