Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

The memorandum of understanding with UKRI includes the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) that supports world-class research that furthers the understanding of human culture and creativity.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Research grants

Ongoing (most recent)

Abstract
Translating Ferro/Transforming Knowledges is a 3.5 year research project bringing together UK and Brazil based academics and producers of the built environment to study, raise awareness and foster just, responsible and alternatives to the worsening and increasingly dispersed conditions of contemporary building construction across the globe. Working together with affiliated researchers and…
Translating Ferro/transforming knowledges of architecture, design and labour for the new field of production studies [TF/TK], AP.R
Abstract
One of the major research problems of South American Archeology is to explain the unequal process of emergence of social hierarchies, political centralization, and state along the continent. Throughout the twentieth century, archaeologists have proposed that the Central Andres would have been a kind of nuclear area where elements such as urbanism, sedentary life and agriculture would have…
Human-environment relationships in Pre-Columbian Amazonia, AP.TEM

Completed (most recent)

Abstract
This project will bring together academic expertise on Brazilian cinema, intermediality and the history and theory of film, based at the University of Reading and at the Federal University of São Carlos, in order to produce the first, groundbreaking, intermedial history of Brazilian cinema. It will also explore the uses of intermediality as a historiographic method applicable to cinema as…
Towards an intermedial history of Brazilian cinema, AP.R
Abstract
This project will: 1) examine the role of the architect in the production of contemporary public space in Sao Paulo and London from the perspective of the architects very different role during the period of High Modernism (1960s-70s) in both cities; 2) investigate the relationship between traditional top-down design in both countries, and the growing interest in the UK and Brazil in botto…
Public spaces and the role of the architect: a comparative study of influential modernist and contemporary examples in London and São Paulo, AP.R
Abstract
The study of the economic, social and ideological roles associated with the arrival of burial monuments and the creation of sacred built landscapes is a core theme in researching Early Formative societies of the Americas. The Southern Jê of Brazil provide an exceptional opportunity to understand the synergy of ecology, history and power in the creation and transformation of landscapes in …
Jê landscapes of Southern Brazil, AP.TEM

Scholarships in Brazil

Ongoing (most recent)

Translating Ferro / transforming knowledges of Architecture, design and labour for the new field of production studies (TF/TK), BP.TT
Abstract
After the 1990s, with increasing scientific evidence of widespread human interference in Amazonian landscapes, a new paradigm was developed for the Amazon. Before seen as a pure and untouched ecosystem, the Amazon is now considered to be home to ancient urban processes, cultural activities, among which stand out a long history of domesticating plants in sync with significant changes in th…
Indigenous Populations and Environment in Ancient Amazonia: a paleoenvironmental approach, BP.PD

Completed (most recent)

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(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

FAPESP support in numbers * Updated March 18, 2023

Total / Available in English

2 / 2	Ongoing research grants
3 / 3	Completed research grants
2 / 2	Ongoing scholarships in Brazil
8 / 5	Completed scholarships in Brazil
15 / 12	All research grants and scholarships

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