News from the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme

Dear all

Small Grants and Networks and Workshops Grants under the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme have been awarded, and since January most award holders have begun work on their projects. You can find out more about the projects from the relevant links in the Research page on the website (www.diasporas.ac.uk/research).

The call for large Research Grant outline proposals went out last autumn, with a closing date of 20 January 2006. The Commissioning Panel considered 157 applications at a meeting in early March, of which 25 have now been invited to proceed to full application stage. The principal investigators will now be preparing full applications to be submitted in early May. We would like to thank everyone, whether successful or not, for their interest in the Programme. We appreciate the considerable amount of work that colleagues put into preparing outline proposals and that many will have been disappointed. Do keep us informed if you obtain funding from another source to take your project forward.

We hope to engage a wider range of people in our forthcoming events, which will include a series of open seminars in 2008. An event for Postgraduates is being held in December 2006, details of which will be circulated on our postgraduate mailing list.

We will keep you informed of further news updates via this email list and the website.

Katie Roche
AHRC Programme Administrator
Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Address: Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 113 3437838
Fax: +44 113 3433654
email: k.a.roche @ leeds.ac.uk
http://www.diasporas.ac.uk