Cuts in Culture conference live blog - 3 of 3

by Miriam Frankel

Welcome to Research Fortnight's Cuts in Culture live blog from Bafta. Our third session today is The Future of Research and Collaboration.

The chairman is Martin McQuillan, dean of arts and social sciences of Kingston University. Our speakers are the Kerstin Mey, director of research and enterprise at the University for the Creative Arts, Rowena Goldman, strategic partnerships executive at BBC R&D, Jocelyn Cunningham, director of arts at the RSA, and James Hunt, channel director for Sky Arts.

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AHRC will not remove Big Society from its delivery plan

by Miriam Frankel

Peer reviewers actively considering quitting

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has no plans to remove references to Big Society from its delivery plan.

Asked whether AHRC would consider removing Big Society, AHRC chief executive Rick Rylance said: “No we are not. The delivery plan sets out to make the best possible case—in difficult economic times—for the importance of arts and humanities research, its relevance to wider social, political, economic and cultural questions.”

In an email exchange with Research Fortnight, Rylance added that there is no Big Society funding stream and that the Haldane Principle is intact.