UKRI Translation: AHRC Proof of Concept
Arts and Humanities Research Council
What it funds
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Who can apply
Individual project lead eligibility To be a project lead, you must meet one or more of the following criteria: you are the original project lead of the research the application builds upon you are a member of the original research team, and it is more appropriate for you to lead the proposed activity you are working at an eligible research organisation and wish to exploit a piece of research in the absence of the original project lead Where the original project lead or team is not leading the application you must seek their permission. Please consider appropriate involvement for them in the new project and how best to reflect this in the narrative of the application . Your organisation must address any continuity issues including Intellectual Property or copyright and you must detail this in the relevant section within your application. Project Eligibility To be eligible for this scheme, you must be building upon an existing project that meets one or more of the following criteria: currently or previously directly funded by AHRC building on previous or current research directly funded by AHRC (excluding masters, doctoral, collaborative doctoral) currently or previously supported by
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