We are a group exploring issues focused on the human mind, driven by our members’ research interests. We provide support to our members by:
- providing a forum for interdisciplinary discussion.
- running a mailing list disseminating information of interest to members.
- providing appropriate cross-disciplinary training for early career researchers.
- hosting an annual summer seminar series.
- supporting grant applications across disciplinary boundaries.
Anyone interested in joining the mailing list should contact Emma Borg.
Early career researchers working on relevant interdisciplinary issues are an integral part of the Centre and we aim to provide appropriate cross-disciplinary supervision and support, giving students the opportunity to learn about areas outside their specialisation. By conducting research with members of the Centre which introduces them to new ideas and techniques, graduate students will broaden their understanding of the disciplines which contribute to the study of Cognitive Science.
Anyone considering submitting a research grant which might benefit from an interdisciplinary component is encouraged to contact the Directors (Emma Borg and Nat Hansen) to discuss what support RCCR might be able to offer.
Past support for grant applications has included individualised grant application workshops, the use of the RCCR seminar series or conference platforms to run grant-based events, and small seed funding for exploratory work. Past RCCR-affiliated grants have included awards from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Stanford University, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation. A full list of past awards which have benefited from RCCR support is available below.
RCCR Grants
| Year | Funder | Purpose | PI | Notes | Amount Awarded |
| 2021-2023 | UoR Interdisciplinary Research Fund | New collaborative work | Hansen & Lepoutre | Law & Corpus Linguistics | c.£27,000 |
| 2021-2023 | Humboldt | Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers | Hansen | Experimenting on Social Meaning | c.30,000 euros |
| 2020-2023 | Leverhulme | Major research fellowship | Borg | Who’s in control? Re-examining agency in a world of bias |
£64,897 |
| 2019 | Univ. Oslo / ConceptLab | Collaborative Fellowship | Hansen | Ordinary language | 15,000 Norwegian kronor |
| 2019 | Reading | University Research Fellowship | Hansen | Experimenting on Social Meaning | £10,000 |
| 2018 | CINN | Pump priming grant | Hansen | Developing and Applying New Quantitative Methods in Experimental Philosophy of Language | £3,022 |
| 2018 | CINN | Pump priming grants | Francis | Virtual Reality for the Humanities and Social Sciences | £2,000 |
| 2017-2019 | Leverhulme | Research Project Grant | Hansen | “The Psychology of Philosophical Thought Experiments”, CI Phil Beaman (Psychology) | £101,062 |
| 2017 | Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience research division |
Borg/ Salomons |
Pain | £1,000 | |
| 2017 | Guarantors of Brain | Borg/ Salomons |
Pain | £2,500 | |
| 2017 | CINN | Pump priming grants | Borg | Pain | £2,500 |
| 2016-2017 | Stanford | Stanford External Faculty Fellowship | Hansen | “Must We Measure What We Mean?” Book project on experimental evidence in semantics and pragmatics | $100,000 |
| 2016 | UoR | Pump priming fund | Borg | Philosophical, scientific and public understanding of pain | £2,439 |
| 2015 | BA | Mobility Grant | Stazicker | Perceptual discrimination in the light of consciousness, cognitive access and attention | £9,790 |
| 2015 | AHRC | Network Grant | Stazicker | The action-based brain: a provocation to philosophy, robotics and the cognitive sciences | 30,955 |
| 2014 | Analysis Trust | Analysis Studentship | Pinder | One year funded postdoctoral position with CCR to investigate the relationship between descriptive semantics and sources of linguistic evidence | £13,800 |
| 2013 | AHRC | AHRC Research Network | Borg | Pervasive context-sensitivity: 2 conferences and a series of online exchanges with Peking University | £25,941 |
| 2013 | Templeton Foundation: The Philosophy and Theology of Intellectual Humility Project |
Research cluster on ‘Mirror neurons, intersubjectivity, and intellectual humility’ | Borg | Eight seminars, including visiting speakers, on mirror neurons, empathy and intellectual humility | £3,138 |
| 2013 | Mind Association | Conference support | Borg | Support for inaugural CCR/Ratio conference | £436 |
| 2013 | Analysis Trust | Conference support | Borg | Graduate bursaries for inaugural CCR conference | £300 |
| 2013 | Aristotelian Society | Conference support | Borg | Support for inaugural CCR/Ratio conference | £300 |
| Joint Academic Board (JAB): UoR/Berks NHS Foundation |
Collaborative Innovation Fund | Borg | Stratification of chronic pain patients | £46,017 |