Applicants are missing out a vital ingredient in their bids to become Arts and Humanities Research Council leadership fellows. The council’s Christie Walker and Ian Broadbridge tell Adam Smith exactly what it is.
It must be frustrating to write what you think is a clear call document for a research fellowship, for one of the central requirements to then be missed out by most applicants. This is what has happened to portfolio managers at the AHRC.
Applicants have been failing to build academic leadership into their bids, even though this was requested when the council relaunched AHRC Fellowships in January 2012. The idea was to complement the British Academy’s early-career and mid-career fellowships by providing fewer but larger awards and concentrating on one of the AHRC’s strategic objectives: leadership.
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