Three research projects involving the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Antonia Thomas have been awarded funding from the British Academy and Royal Irish Academy.
Eight SHAPE projects secured seed funding as part of the academies’ joint Knowledge Frontiers Symposium.
Funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the symposium aimed to support the development of international collaborations between early career researchers.
Across two days, it invited participants to think of “the Future” across different times and contexts to explore and address the need for creative interventions in social and environmental crises, how communities of the past managed rapid social and technological change, and whether we can humanise the digital future.
The successful projects are:
- The Apocalyptic Quotidian: The Everyday Crises of Environments – Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla, University of Liverpool; Dr Sarah Bezan, University College Cork; Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin; Dr Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge, Dr Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London; Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Jade French, Loughborough University.
- The Lifecycle of Cardboard, the Most Quotidian, Ubiquitous of Materials, and its Implications for Environmental Histories and Futures – Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge; Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin.
- Thinking Through Lichen – Dr Jade French, Loughborough University; Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Sarah Bezan, University College Cork.
- Compare and Contrast How Nationalist-separatist Parties Today in Quebec, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Nothern Ireland Engage with Nation-state Parliaments in Canada, the UK, Republic of Ireland and Spain – Dr Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University; Dr Matthew Barnfield, University of Essex; Dr Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University.
- Land-use Futures in Farming Communities in the UK and Ireland – Dr Stuart Henderson, Ulster University; Dr Brenda McNally, Dublin City University; Dr Rosie Everett, Northumbria University; Dr Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rothamsted Research.
- Joint Comparative Study of the Political Economy of Emission Reductions of the Livestock Industry in the United Kingdon and Ireland – Dr Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rothamsted Research; Dr Danny Marks, Dublin City University.
- Vocabularies of Time – Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla, University of Liverpool; Dr Ailbhe McDaid, University College Cork; Dr Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London.
- A Study of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities within Ireland and the United Kingdom Law, Policy and Practise – Dr Elizabeth A Faulkner Keele University; Dr Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University; Dr Mary Robinson, Newcastle University; Dr Ailbhe McDaid, University College Cork.
