AHRC-TORCH Graduate Fund

The AHRC-TORCH Graduate Fund was founded in 2014 and offers funding support for interdisciplinary, student-led projects in the Humanities.

Each year we offer a range of funding streams. In 2017, these were:

  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
  • Public Engagement with Research Project
  • Podcast or podcast series

Awards vary between £500 and £1500. We promote interdisciplinarity, so projects must be led by at least two graduate students from different faculties. Proposed projects in the Public Engagement with Research funding stream must involve collaboration with a non-academic organisation.

Successful projects receive additional support and resources, including guidance on managing a budget; access to University communication channels for promotion of their project; working space and event management support; and access to AV, recording and editing equipment.

Applications are accepted in Michaelmas term each year, and projects should be completed by 31st July in the following year. If you'd like to receive information and notifications about the next call for applications to the Graduate Fund, please email gradprojects@humanities.ox.ac.uk.

Graduate Fund highlights

'The World's Music at Oxford' was awarded £1,000 from the AHRC-TORCH Graduate Fund in 2016. The aim of this series of three concerts was to provide a platform for musical styles that are under-represented in Oxford, and indeed outside of London in general. Ensembles from Senegal, Brazil and Egypt performed traditional music and discussed their work, its significance and meanings, with the audience. The concerts were free, open to all members of the public, and were all fully booked. The combination of performance and engagement helped bridge the distances between the academic study of ethnomusicology, performers, and the public.

Graduate Fund highlight: The World's Music at Oxford

Photo courtesy of Rosie McMahon

 

This interdisciplinary conference 

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