1. Connected Communities Programme
Communities, Cultures, Health & Well-Being
Research Development Workshop
Next Steps:
Development & Follow-up Funding
Gary Grubb,
Associate Director of Programmes AHRC

2. Possible Headline Success Criteria
Identified by the Group on Day 1
• Sustainable after the project end
• Fun and exciting
• Impact on well being defined by community
• Big ideas
• Strong knowledge exchange element
• Inter-disciplinary – user engagement – international
• Benefits on different levels – micro, theoretical –
including unintended impacts
• Exploratory research

3. Possible Headline Success Criteria
Identified by the Group on Day 1 (2)
• Co-productive enterprise
• Contagious –catalytic – generative
• Dialogical – restorative
• Deeply interfacing: local – national – global
• Scalable – potential policy impact
• Challenge the term ‘connectedness’
• Demonstrable links community / academe and learn
from past programmes
• Critically demonstrate our claims of participation

4. Funding Available
• We want to support the development of promising creative and
innovative research ideas that emerge from the workshop and
encourage new collaborations
• Two types of funding available immediately after the workshop
through streamlined process:
– 1. Project Development Proposals to support the
development of project ideas identified during the workshop
as having the potential to be worked up into large full
research consortia proposals
– 2. Follow-up Funding – to pursue other ideas and
opportunities emerging from the workshop but which are not
about preparing a large consortia application
• Deadline for both is 1700 Wednesday 23rd November 2011
• Workshop participants can be involved in more than one
application (but can be PI on no more than 2 applications)

5. Funding Routes
Connected Communities Programme Other Routes
At any time or Research Council
in line with responsive Mode or
Other Funders
other funding schemes
other calls
e.g. Follow-on Funding
Closed call
Summer 2012 Research
closing date Consortia up
to £1.5m
Research
23 November Follow-up
Development
funding up to
Closing Date funding up to
£40k
£15k
Other proposals
Proposals agreed for emerging directly
development as Other ideas not
Workshop from directly from the
consortia proposals the workshop
Sept 2011 workshop
at workshop

6. Project Development Funding
• To support the development ideas specifically identified
during the workshop as having strong potential to be
developed into full large consortia proposals.
• Funding for activities directly linked to developing a full
proposal e.g.
- networking amongst teams
- building or extending partnerships / collaborations (both
other researchers in UK or overseas and outside academia)
- consultation with communities and business, policy,
practice, voluntary etc organisations about research plans
- conducting fuller reviews of previous research of
relevance
- short term testing / piloting of ideas or methods

7. Project Development Funding
• Limited number of awards of up to £15,000 (FEC) available to
workshop participants, to start to start between 1 Feb and 28 Feb
2012 and run for up to 4 months
• Expected to be cross-disciplinary and cut across Research Council
boundaries but must involve arts and humanities researchers
• Novel stakeholder & community engagement activities expected
• PI plus at least two Co-Is or collaborators must have attended the
workshop
• Must involve 2 or more Research Organisations
• Can involve any number of other collaborators (academic/ non-
academic, international etc...), including people not at the
workshop
• Applications via Je-S form available after 18 October
• Light touch review process

8. Project Development Funding:
Future Funding Opportunity
• Holders of Project Development Projects will have an
opportunity to submit proposals for large research
consortia projects under a closed ring-fenced call.
• Expected limit on applications expected to be £1.5m
(FEC) over periods of up to 5 years
• Deadline expected to be summer 2012
• Number funded will depend on quality & innovation (full
peer review), size of proposals, potential co-funding, etc,
but likely to be 1-3 consortia.
• Further details will be provided to those awarded
Project Development Funding

9. Follow-Up Funding
• Aim to pursue ideas emerging from the workshop but not
leading to directly to large full consortia proposals for
submission in summer 2012 but to other forms of output /
outcome.
• Activities could include:
- networking events (e.g. seminars, workshops, on-line fora);
- knowledge exchange and dissemination activities
(conferences, joint publications, policy briefings);
- people exchanges / secondments;
- joint scoping studies / pilot projects;
- joint reviews / synthesis of research;
- innovative community engagement activities;
- collaborative training activities

10. Follow-Up Funding
• Funding for a range of projects up to £40,000 (FEC) available to
workshop participants, to start to start between 1 Feb and 28 Feb
2012 and run for up to a year.
• Expected to be cross-disciplinary and may cut across Research
Council boundaries but must involve arts and humanities
perspectives
• Novel stakeholder & community engagement activities strongly
encouraged
• PI plus at least one Co-I or collaborator must have attended the
workshop
• Must involve 2 or more Research Organisations
• Can involve any number of other collaborators (academic/ non-
academic, international etc...), including people not at the
workshop
• Applications via Je-S form available after 18 October
• Light touch review process

11. Other Opportunities
• Funded projects will become a part of the Connected
Communities Programme and will be invited to future Summits or
Programme events
• Follow-up proposals could lead to applications to other research
council schemes – applications to responsive mode grants
schemes can cut across Council boundaries and be handled
collaboratively under the cross-Council Funding Agreement
• Funded projects will be eligible to apply to Research Council
follow-on funding schemes to exploit new pathways to impact
that emerge.
• Highlight for cross-disciplinary networks with arts and humanities
at their core under AHRC’s networking scheme
• AHRC fellowship scheme highlight notice for collaborative arts
and humanities research embedded in communities

12. Future Plans
• Just announced! Joint AHRC/ESRC call for outline proposals for two
large consortia on Community Engagement and Mobilisation call
closing 14 December 2011.
• Just announced! Arts and Humanities perspectives on communities
- research reviews and scoping studies: call closing on 23
November 2011
• Planned initiative on community heritage
• Possible research development workshop on Communities, Culture
& Sustainability (2012)
• Summit 2012 involving representatives from community groups /
organisations
• Developing partnership activities
• Programme web-pages:
www.connectedcommunities.ac.uk
and e.mail contact list will provide further information

13. Research Council Contacts
• AHRC
• Queries about the Connected Communities health and well-being
theme:
Adam Walker A.Walker@ahrc.ac.uk
• Queries about the application process, eligibility criteria etc:
Gemma Broadhurst G.Broadhurst@ahrc.ac.uk
• Queries about Connected Communities Programme generally:
Gail Lambourne (G.Lambourne@ahrc.ac.uk); Gary Grubb
(G.Grubb@ahrc.ac.uk)
• ESRC
Dawn Woodgate (Dawn.Woodgate@esrc.ac.uk)
• MRC / RCUK Lifelong Health &Well-Being Programme
Katie Finch (katie.finch@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk)
• EPSRC / Digital Economy Programme
John Baird (John.Baird@epsrc.ac.uk )

14. Questions?

15. Lessons Learnt from Previous Events
• Important that in clustering ideas that the exciting original ideas do not get lost
or ideas lose focus.
• Getting a clear research question or set of questions can help.
• Importance of identifying a leader with skills in bringing the components
together.
• Remember the large consortia proposals are not the only game in town - Don’t
forget the follow-up opportunity and other funding opportunities (Research
Councils / other funders) and the potential value of networking and identifying
collaboration opportunities etc.
• Not everyone can be involved leading a large consortia but people can
contribute in many different ways – ideas, critiques, advisory groups etc. In
large groups developing consortia it is important to recognise that not everyone
can be a Co-investigator and that people can contribute in different ways.
• Don’t narrow down too early and don’t forget you can move between groups at
any point.