ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) Associate Investigator Scheme – Call For Applications

Applications are invited for the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions (CHE) Associate Investigator (AI) Scheme for 2014.

Our Associate Investigators are Australian humanities researchers working on research projects that correlate with the Centre’s research aims and goals.

Closing Date: 30 September 2013.

The ARC CHE has a core goal to provide small grant support to scholars as Associate Investigators (AIs) conducting research that focuses on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-­‐1800, or explores the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia. Topics should fit within our project areas: Meanings, Change, Performance and Shaping the Modern. Applicants from any relevant discipline are welcome.

AI Scheme Key Principles

  1. Projects must investigate an aspect of the History of Emotions, 1100‐1800, or the extension of that history in subsequent periods in Australia, and can be for any length of time up to one year (with a possibility to renew or extend for another year on evidence of achievement of first-­year project outcomes). However, any successful applicant who, during the period of their AI status, wins national competitive grant funding for a project focusing on the study of emotions in Europe 1100-­1800, will be automatically offered AI status for the duration of that project;
  2. Applicants must propose demonstrable outcomes appropriate to the nature of the project and the aims of CHE; 
  3. Applicants can seek up to a maximum of $3000 per year to support project expenses. All budgets must be fully costed and evidenced in the proforma application; 
  4. Successful applicants will be known for the length of their funding period as “Associate Investigators” of the Centre;
  5. Successful applicants must complete a 6 month progress report and a final report one month after completion of the funding period;
  6. Successful applicants must acknowledge the support of CHE in all public presentations of project materials (written, oral etc.).

Eligibility

Eligible applicants will:

  1. Be resident in Australia;
  2. Hold a PhD in a relevant discipline.

Current and former AIs are welcome to apply.

For further details and the application process, click here.