New DFG-AHRC funded research project »Networked through Sound«
Congratulations to Professor Dr Sandra Jasper, starting in 2025 as Chair in Cultural Geography and Society-Environment Research, who has been awarded a major new €650k research grant from UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) for her collaborative project titled: Networked through Sound: Listening to 20th Century Wildlife Sound Archives.
Together with Co-PI Dr Jonathan Prior of Cardiff University, the team will study the history of European wildlife sound recording through seven archives located in Europe and South Africa. They will examine how this network of wildlife sound archives, and the recordings they contain, have been produced and consumed in a variety of social and cultural contexts, including their colonial and geopolitical roles and histories.
UK-German collaboration
The bilateral annual funding brings together arts and humanities researchers in the UK and Germany to conduct outstanding joint research projects. The successful projects were selected through a competitive process, leading to a joint peer review panel meeting in autumn 2024. The project is expected to begin in February 2025 and will run for three years until 2028.
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