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Professor Lisa Jardine and the Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) are delighted to announce the winning projects for the first CHIRP Interdisciplinary Research Projects Scheme.
Proposals were invited from humanities departments for a research project involving a collaboration between two or more separate departments, and employing the specialist skills of a post-doctoral early career researcher.
The range and quality of applications to the scheme was very impressive, and demonstrated the strength of and enthusiasm for collaboration across humanities faculties, and beyond. Some of the proposals were wonderfully ingenious in the use they made of expertise drawn from what are usually quite separate academic disciplines. Professor Jardine wishes to thank all the applicants for their wonderful submissions, which made the competition extremely lively and interesting to chair.
In the end, however, choices had to be made, and the panel was in full agreement that the following projects really exemplified what CHIRP is all about, encouraging and fostering inspiring interdisciplinary work:
- 100 Hours - Margot Finn (History), Simon Werrett (History and Philosophy of Science) and Ludovic Coupaye (Anthropology)
- Pain: Speaking the Threshold - Sharon Morris (Slade) and Joanna Zakrzewska (Eastman Dental Hospital UCLH)
- The Human Right to Health and Priority Setting in Health Care - Albert Weale (Political Science) and James Wilson (Philosophy)
The winning projects will now go about recruiting their Early Career Researchers, and updates will be available via the CHIRP website as the projects evolve.
Well done again to all those who participated. We look forward to repeating the competition next year.
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