Examples of taxpayer-funded AHRC studies - Part 2

Part 5 of Woke Waste: £2,603,186 has spent on these studies. Austerity, ey!

Here are 10 more projects I thought taxpayers might like to see they are funding.

They amount to £2,603,186.

My last piece covered 10 other studies amounting to £4,531,869 in funding.

So that’s £7,135,055 together.

NB. I have only logged studies that make explicit their funding. Many do not (example below. *I had to do a double take but one has “Mating Snails” in its title - link here).

(De)colonial Ecologies in 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film

Funded Value: £205,543

“This study asks: what does an analysis of 21st-century Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican film contribute to our understanding of the relationship between coloniality and ecology; and to what extent, and in what ways, can film build decolonial ecologies?”

Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions

Funded Value: £35,285

“Right-wing agendas have consistently identified feminism, gender equality and anti-racism as a problem, and have used 'anti-gender', 'anti-feminist', and anti-migrant feeling as a way of garnering support for nationalist, cultural, religious or political agendas.”

Listening to the 85%: exploring how recording and listening to underwater sounds can increase environmental awareness on Isle of Man.

Funded Value: £81,635

“We will use underwater sound recording to increase understanding and engagement amongst the public and school pupils in relation to the Isle of Man (IoM)'s environmental challenges. We will also use and disseminate the relatively-unknown eco-poetic stories of Malcolm Lowry who wrote about the IoM as an environmental model.”

Comics and Race in Latin America

Funded Value: £759,293

“To achieve (b), we will work with six contemporary Latin American comics artists. During two retreats, we will hold interviews and discussions with these artists, before opening up those conversations for networking events with other local artists, publishing houses, archivists and festival organisers.”

Place-making Through Sound: Designing for Inclusivity and Wellbeing

Funded Value: £105,006

“Parallel to this have been increasingly urgent discussions around access and inclusivity in relation to a number of factors, including but not limited to 'race', class, age and disability. The proposed research and innovation project brings together these two imperatives in order to examine the role of sound as an agent of inclusion and wellbeing.”

Sports media and identity: a theory-practice network

Funded Value: £24,292

“Debates about the participation of trans women athletes in women's sports continue to be hotly contested. These factors are a reflection of, and further contextualised by, contemporary debates about minority rights and identity politics of which social movements and associated campaigns, for example #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter, are a visible part. Thus, as Cairns argues, it is vital that sports journalists are equipped to handle such complex and challenging issues.”

Decolonizing South East Asian Sound Archives

Funded Value: £123,470

“DeCoSEAS strives for the inclusion of voices, stances and interpretations that have hitherto remained unheard in existing discourses about heritage by attending to multiple, time-bound and intricately entangled voices simultaneously (those recorded from the past and those from SE Asian partners today). With these action plans, DeCoSEAS aims to provide new insights in and new practices of heritage curation and participation.”

Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet

Funded Value: £786,083

“we will develop workshops and materials (a) to train school teachers how to deal with the problem of conspiracy theories in the classroom, including creating educational materials for use with young people and (b) to help scientists and science communicators address conspiracy theories about e.g. climate change and vaccinations. Working with the think tank Demos, we will hold a high-profile end-of-project event and produce a report for stakeholders.”

MAUSI Net. Menopause Artivism in UK, Sweden and India

Funded Value: £29,956

“The workshop will result in a menopause-themed comic strip/graphic novel that will be translated into English and Hindi and produce artivist interventions such as paper biodegradable stickers.”

Screen Encounters with Britain: What do young Europeans make of Britain and its digital screen culture?

Funded Value: £452,623

“The country's departure from the EU lends additional urgency and makes Europe a particularly important site of investigation now.”