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£50,000 Academic Grant Success for International Football Institute (IFI)
The International Football Institute (IFI), the National Football Museum 's research partnership with the University of Central Lancashire , has successfully bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the scheme Collaborate Doctoral Awards. This £50,000 grant award will enable the appointment of a PhD student to study “Football's Consumer Culture and the Construction of Fan Identities, c. 1880 to c. 1960”. The project will deal with the meanings invested by fans in the products generated by football's consumer culture in this period.
The successful grant application was submitted by Dave Russell, Professor of Cultural History, Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire , and Kevin Moore, Museum Director, the National Football Museum .
The PhD student will split their time between the University of Central Lancashire and the National Football Museum , as their project will involve a detailed study of some of the collections held at the Museum. The Museum holds the world's finest collections relating to football, including the FIFA Collection.
Professor Dave Russell commented “I'm really delighted that we have succeeded with this award. This is very much an under-researched field. I am particularly pleased that through the International Football Institute, this project is being undertaken in partnership with the National Football Museum ”.
Kevin Moore, Museum Director, said “We are delighted with this award. It shows the great value of the International Football Institute, the Museum's research partnership with the University of Central Lancashire . It is really exciting that this high-level research will be undertaken on the Museum's unique collections”.