This should be the title of the programme you would like to make for BBC Radio 3.

Application name

Focusing on one aspect of your research, give a clear outline of your idea including the format your programme would take.
Keep in mind this will be for a non-academic audience. The assessors are looking for ideas that:
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<li>are based on a strong and innovative programme concept</li>
<li>will engage and excite the public</li>
<li>explain the relevance of your research and what the findings mean in an accessible way</li>
<li>demonstrate creative and original thinking with personality and flair.</li>
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Provide a brief pitch for an engaging Radio 3 programme of up to 45 minutes.

Summary

Decide which of the three categories below describes you best. Enter &lsquo;A&rsquo;, &lsquo;B&rsquo; or &lsquo;C&rsquo; in the space provided and add a brief description of your current situation and how this meets your selected eligibility.
A. Current PhD student who has made considerable progress on your research, for example within one year of submission.
B. Within eight years of the award of your PhD, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave, caring responsibilities, health reasons, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic.
C. Within six years of your first academic appointment, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave, caring responsibilities, health reasons, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic. This must be a paid contract of employment, either full time or part time, which lists research or teaching as the primary function, including research assistantships.

You need to be a UK resident, aged 18 or over and must choose one of the eligibility criteria listed below.

Personal eligibility

Your research could involve bringing together arts and humanities research with other non-AHRC funded disciplines. We welcome interdisciplinary research, but your current work must have the arts and humanities at its heart.
Choose the subject discipline that best describes your research from the list of <a class="govuk-link" href="https://ahrc.ukri.org/funding/research/subjectcoverage/ahrc-disciplines/" target="_self">AHRC Level 2 subject disciplines</a>.
In the space provided, state your subject discipline.

Choose the primary focus of your current research activity from the list of AHRC Level 2 subject disciplines.

Topic eligibility

Provide a brief explanation of the current arts and humanities research you are undertaking.
The assessors are looking for research that is:
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<li>new, unique, interesting or challenges current thinking</li>
<li>evidenced, scholarly and well written.</li>
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Briefly describe what you are researching and its broader relevance to a non-academic audience.

Your current research activity

Include all the academic institutions for whom you have carried out research. Start with the most recent; describe what you did and how you did it, providing any interesting outcomes. You should set this out in the same way you might set out a CV.
The assessors are particularly looking for:
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<li>a breadth of research interest</li>
<li>high standards of scholarship.</li>
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List the academic institutions where you have been based, the years you were there and the research you undertook.

Your research history

Review a new film, play, novel, book of poetry, exhibition or any other cultural event of which you have personal and recent experience. This should be of interest to and written for a non-academic audience, and must be on a topic and discipline separate from your research.
Write the review as if you were going to read it on air as a short essay for BBC Radio 3. You can listen to examples online. Remember that the &lsquo;Free Thinking&rsquo; programme makes a link between arts and ideas, so your review will need to explore ideas within or prompted by the work and not simply discuss its apparent quality.
The assessors are particularly looking for:
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<li>links between arts and ideas, where you explore ideas within or prompted by the work</li>
<li>comfort with communicating ideas outside of your research area in an interesting, well written and engaging manner</li>
<li>editorial and stylistic suitability for a Radio 3 audience.</li>
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This Opportunity closed on Thursday 23 September 2021

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