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The Arts and Humanities Research Council has announced funding of £80 million for projects that promote collaborations between universities and the creative industries.
The AHRC said that the Creative Industries Clusters Programme would support a policy and evidence centre for the creative industries and eight academic-industry research partnerships.
The programme, announced by the council on 1 August, will be framed around a set of needs identified jointly by industry and the AHRC and is expected to run between October 2018 and March 2023.