AHRC Centre for British Film and Television Studies
The Centre, created in October 2000 with five years funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (now renamed AHRC), aims to enhance and extend the recent growth in high level academic research on British Film and Television.

AHRC Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies
The Centre is a collaboration between the University of Essex, University of Manchester and Tate, which has one of the world's most important collections of dada and surrealist art. The Centre will promote research excellence in studies of dada and surrealism and their impact on modern thought and culture.

AHRC Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies
Based at Southampton University's Winchester School of Art, the Research Centre's aim is to improve the care and interpretation of historic textiles by enhancing knowledge and understanding of textiles and textile conservation (2002-2007).

AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
The Centre pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of the rooms in a range of buildings: from tenements to palaces; the objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they thought about them.

The Hunt for Submarines in Classical Art
The project is concerned with the use of advanced imaging ICT (information and communication technologies) within visual arts research.

Research Review: Practice Led Research in Art, Design & Architecture
This AHRC-funded project ran from November 2005 to September 2006. Its aim was to map practice-led research in the fields of Art, Design and Architecture.