• Research Portfolio
• Research Activities
• Research Collaboration Fund
• Postgraduate Funding Opportunities
• Related Institutions and Associations
• HEFCE and the Research Excellence Framework
• HEA – An tÚdaráis um Ard-Oideachas
• Research Councils and Funding Bodies
• Research Networks
• Recently Published Documents on Research in the Humanities and in Modern Languages
• Florence hotel with special rates for SIS members

Research Portfolio

The holder of the research portfolio brings to the meetings of the Executive of the SIS any specific issues related to research activity in the subject area and makes suggestions about how the SIS might support or nurture research. S/he also takes on an advisory role in the organization of the Interim Conference and in the academic planning of the Biennial Conference.

The current holder of the Research Portfolio is Dr Abigail Brundin (Cambridge): asb17@cam.ac.uk.

Research Activities

Research Collaboration Fund

This fund is designed to promote and support collaboration between researchers in Italian Studies in different institutions, predominantly within the UK and ROI, and to support collaboration between Italianists and researchers from other disciplines, and where appropriate, with international researchers. Applicants are invited to bid of an award of up to £500 to cover travel and other reasonable expenses incurred in holding initial meetings amongst the researchers involved. Applications should be sent to Dr Charles Burdett c.f.burdett@bristol.ac.uk by one of two deadlines each year: 15 December and 15 June. See this page for further details.

Postgraduate Funding Opportunities

A list of postgraduate funding opportunities in various British and Irish universities can be downloaded in PDF format. The list is incomplete, but will be updated and extended on an annual basis.

Related Institutions and Associations

• ASMI – The Association for the Study of Modern Italy
• The British School at Rome
• Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS)
• UCML – University Council for Modern Languages

HEFCE and the Research Excellence Framework

• Home page of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
  
• The Research Excellence Framework
  • Update on the bibliometrics pilot exercise
  • Bibliometrics and the Research Excellence Framework (Adobe PDF 548KB)
  • Bibliometrics and the Research Excellence Framework (MS Word 68KB)

HEA – An tÚdaráis um Ard-Oideachas

• Home page of the Higher Education Authority (Ireland)

Research Councils and Funding Bodies

• AHRC – The Arts and Humanities Research Council
• The British Academy
  • British Academy Newton International Fellowships
• Delmas Foundation
• ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council
• EU Framework Programme 7
• HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area
• IRCHSS – The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• The Leverhulme Trust

Research Networks

• Italian Studies Library Group
• Research Information Network
• Vitae

Recently Published Documents on Research in the Humanities and in Modern Languages

Members of the SIS will be interested in the following documents concerning research that have recently been published::

• 'Research Review in Modern Languages', presented by a review team led by the LLAS Subject Centre, University of Southampton, in partnership with UCML
  • Appendices
• 'Punching Our Weight: the Humanities and Social Sciences in Public Policy Making', A British Academy Report

Florence hotel with special rates for SIS members

The SIS has been offered special rates by the Hotel Albion in Florence. Nobody on the SIS Executive Committee has been to the hotel so we can offer no guarantees or endorsement, but it has been regularly used over the years by one of our recently retired colleagues (Dr Roberto Bruni, formerly of Exeter University): information is included on the Research page only insofar as it may be useful to members planning a research trip to Florence. See this page for the special rates for SIS members.