ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact scheme

More than ?4 million has been provided to 21 projects under the DEDEFI scheme, which funds work by arts and humanities researchers that is aimed at enhancing access to leading-edge digital technologies and facilities. The projects will also seek to increase the impact from digital-research outputs and drive the uptake of new technologies. Listed below are six of the winners; the other grants awarded were published last week.

Award winner: J.D. Richards

Institution: University of York

Value: ?140,250

ADS+: enhancing and sustaining the Archaeology Data Service digital repository

Award winner: T.P. Schofield

Institution: University College London

Value: ?262,673

The Bentham papers transcription initiative

Award winner: D. Tudhope

Institution: University of Glamorgan

Value: ?109,802

Semantic technologies enhancing links and linked data for archaeological resources (STELLAR)

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Award winner: C. Watts

Institution: Birkbeck, University of London

Value: ?136,498

Voiceworks digital song/text project: a collaboration between the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, Wigmore Hall and Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Award winner: K. Woolford

Institution: University of Sussex

Value: ?434,345

Motion in place platform

Award winner: A. Yarrington

Institution: University of Glasgow

Value: ?61,462

Mobilising "mapping sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 1851-1951"

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Award winner: Usha Goswami

Institution: University of Cambridge

Value: ?148,954

Rhythmic perception, music and language: a new theoretical framework for understanding and remediating specific language impairment

Award winner: Jemma Samuels

Institution: BrightsideUNIAID

Value: ?124,858

Further education to higher education - supporting student parents' transition

Award winner: Ros Herman

Institution: City University London

Value: ?142,157

Reading dyslexia in deaf children: the need for normative data

Award winner: Barry Mitchell

Institution: Coventry University

Value: ?57,871

Sentencing in cases of murder: an analysis of public opinion

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Award winner: Rachel Ormston

Institution: Scottish Centre for Social Research

Value: ?99,266

Scotland's constitutional future

Award winner: Susan E. Harkness

Institution: University of Bath

Value: ?95,835

Lone parents' mental health and employment

Award winner: Tony Dolphin

Institution: Institute for Public Policy Research

Value: ?64,625

Modelling taxes on wealth

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Award winner: Michael Shiner

Institution: London School of Economics

Value: ?57,062

Black and minority ethnic access to higher education: a reassessment

Building on research that suggests that black and ethnic-minority applicants tend to be filtered into new universities, this project will investigate apparent biases in the student-recruitment process. Using data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, Dr Shiner aims to identify factors driving differential patterns of entry, with a view to making recommendations to promote a more balanced representation of groups across the whole sector.