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Written question asked by Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 November 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 25 November 2010. It was answered by Lord Willetts (Conservative) on Monday, 29 November 2010 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Goldsmiths College

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what research grants has his Department given to Goldsmiths College in each of the last five years; and for what projects.
Answer

This Department does not directly provide research grants to Goldsmiths College. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council provided 38 grants for a range of research at a value of £8,368,310 in the period 2005-10.A full breakdown is as follows.

AHRC awards made at Goldsmiths College 2005 to 2010
Start date Principal investigator Department Project title Amount awarded (£)
1 April 2005 Professor Nicholas Thomas Department of Anthropology Melanesian art: objects, narratives and indigenous owners 530,221.00
1 April 2006 Professor Vikki Bell Department of Sociology 'Justice Demands' and the negotiated process of art-work production in Argentina and Northern Ireland 31,901.00
1 January 2007 Dr Andrea Phillips Department of Visual Arts Curating Architecture: researching the influence of architectural ideas in contemporary curatorial practice 153,730.00
1 March 2007 Professor Janis Jefferies Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles E-Static Shadows 146,873.00
1 September 2007 Dr Nirmal Puwar Department of Sociology Noise of the Past 165,938.00
12 January 2009 Professor Robert Gordon Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial Era 402,998.05
1 April 2009 Dr Gavin Butt Visual Cultures Performance Matters 349,665.00
Total 1,781,326.05

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
26762; 519 c600W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Goldsmiths' College
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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