ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Associate Investigator Scheme – Call For Applications

The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100 – 1800 (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. The call for applications for AIs for 2015 is now open.

AI Scheme Key Principles

  1. Projects must investigate an aspect of the History of Emotions, Europe 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 AUD3000 per year to support project expenses. All budgets must be fully costed and evidenced in the pro forma 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 six-monthly 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.).

Eligible applicants will:

  1. Be resident in Australia
  2. Applicants are normally expected to hold a PhD in a relevant discipline, but cases may be made for equivalent scholarly standing based on a strong research track record. Currently enrolled postgraduate students may not apply.

AI Application Process

  1. A project pro forma must be completed in all aspects and provide the committee with the information to assess relevance, originality and viability of the proposed research project.
  2. Candidates must also supply a CV no longer than three A4 pages, and a statement that indicates track record relative to experience;
  3. Current AIs applying for a further year’s extension of their AI status must also provide a progress report, no longer than two A4 pages, on their current AI project, detailing outcomes achieved and progress made towards anticipated outcomes;
  4. Former AIs (for instance, those holding AI status in 2012 or 2013) are welcome to apply, but must have submitted a final report on their original project.

Final submission date for applications:  31 August 2014.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/get-involved/associate-investigators.aspx