New Academy Research Projects adopted in 2012
The Academy issued a call for proposals for the adoption of new Academy Research Projects in 2011 and adopted five new projects as a result. (The call for proposals is only issued periodically, and it is not expected that there will be a new call in 2013.)
The scheme offers the kitemarking of academic excellence to major infrastructural projects or research facilities, intended to produce fundamental works of scholarship, in most cases for the use of a variety of disciplines, rather than to produce interpretative works or monographs. Further details of existing Academy Research Projects are given below.
Academy Research Projects
The Academy grants the title of Academy Research Project to about 50 long-term enterprises, each organised and run by its own Project Committee. These projects aim to make available fundamental research tools of benefit to a wide range of scholars. The following projects are currently supported through this scheme, which offers recognition and limited funding:
- Acquisition and Loss of Nationality
- Acta of the Plantagenets
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
- An Archive for China
- Bentham Project
- Carlyle Letters
- Cassiano dal Pozzo: Museo Cartaceo
- Catalogue of British Town Maps
- Commodities of Empire, 1800-2000
- Conflict and Priority in Early Modern Astronomy
- Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
- Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues
- Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum and Beazley Archive Pottery Database
- Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
- Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814)
- Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler
- Development of the Welsh Language/Datblygiad yr Iaith Gymraeg
- Dictionary of Old English
- Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic
- Early English Church Music
- Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey
- English Episcopal Acta
- English Place-Name Survey
- Evergetis Project
- Fontes Historiae Africanae (Sources of African History)
- Francis Bacon Project
- Hearth Tax of England and Wales Project
- Iconographical Lexicon of Classical Mythology (LIMC)
- The John Foxe Project
- Law and Empire AD193-455: The Projet Volterra
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
- Location Register/WATCH Project
- Mapping Sculpture, 1851-1951
- Medieval European Coinage
- Medieval Latin Dictionary
- Medieval Texts and Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle
- Occupational Structure of Britain, 1379-1911
- Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri
- Poets of the Nobility - Medieval Welsh Poetry/Beirdd yr Uchelwyr
- Prosopography of the Byzantine World
- Records of Early English Drama
- Records of Social and Economic History
- Romano-British Writing-Tablets
- Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
- Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
- Thesaurus Linguae Latina
Academy Centenary Research Project
After a rigorous process intended to identify major new and innovative strands of long term research in the humanities and social sciences, which will make a significant impact on the development of scholarship in the first part of the twenty-first century, the Academy adopted the following project in 2003 as an Academy Centenary Research Project.
From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain
Project Director: Professor R I M Dunbar, FBA
Project Director: Professor C S Gamble, FBA
Project Director: Professor J A J Gowlett
contact: robin.dunbar@anthro.ox.ac.uk
website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/lucy2003/index.html