Attendance and engagement at UK sporting, cultural and heritage sites
AHRC and DCMS invite teams to develop data-intensive methods for measuring participation at unticketed cultural, heritage and sporting settings. Proposals must demonstrate a usable measurement tool in at least one DCMS sector. The project must start on 1 May 2027 and finish by 31 March 2030. The full-economic-cost ceiling is £1.32 million; AHRC normally funds 80%. Applications opened on 22 September 2026 and close at 16:00 UK time on 1 December 2026.
Modeling idiosyncratic evaluation of faces
Analogies between exemplars of schema-governed categories
Dominant theories of analogical thinking postulate that making an analogy consists in discovering that two superficially different situations share isomorphic systems of similar relations. According to this perspective, the comparison between the two situations may eventually lead to the construction of a schema, which retains the structural aspects they share and deletes their specific contents. We have developed a new approach to analogical thinking, whose purpose is to explain a particular type of analogies: those in which the analogs are exemplars of a schema-governed category (e.g., two instances of robbery). As compared to standard analogies, these comparisons are noteworthy in that a well-established schema (the schema-governed category) mediates each one of the subprocesses involved in analogical thinking. We argue that the category assignment approach is able to provide a better account of how the analogical subprocesses of retrieval, mapping, re-representation, evaluation and inference generation are carried out during the processing of this specific kind of analogies. The arguments presented are accompanied by brief descriptions of some of the studies that provided support for this approach.