The Arts and Humanities Research Council is discontinuing its distinct knowledge exchange team as part of a reduction in the number of teams in its Programmes Directorate from eight to five.
The change means that the AHRC’s head of knowledge exchange, Susan Amor, is to leave the council. However, the three other members of the knowledge exchange team will be reassigned. The council’s international team will also be merged into one of the remaining five teams.
Philip Graham, business alliance manager at Queen’s University Belfast, worries that having no dedicated person to oversee knowledge exchange could mean that the people working on it in different programmes get stuck in silos. “We want coordination, not duplication,” he says. An AHRC spokesman says this will not be a problem: “With the new structure, oversight across the piece is, if anything, easier. They’re all in the same directorate so the lines are much clearer now.” He adds that Emma Wakelin, associate director of programmes, will continue to oversee knowledge exchange.
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