Archaeologists may apply for personal grants (up to £5,000) only for personal travel and maintenance costs for museum, archive and site visits, or for assistance with the preparation of research for publication. All other archaeological work is covered under the separate scheme below. It should be noted that the average level of grant is considerably lower than £5,000.
Closing dates: 30 September, 30 November, 28 February and 30 April. Applicants will be notified of the outcome approximately three months later.
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Return to the British Academy indexGrants are available to support all archaeological fieldwork, together with related general and scientific post-excavation work, including the costs of qualified research assistants. Grants are intended principally for archaeological excavation and work in the field. Applications are invited from individuals and organisations based in the United Kingdom and undertaking academic archaeological research. Grants are not available for the purpose of undertaking emergency rescue archaeology, or routine archaeological recording. The Humanities Research Board will typically consider making grants up to £20,000 but applications for larger amounts may be considered on their merits. The average sum requested for new projects in 1995/96 was £5,400 and the average level of award for new projects was £4,250.
Closing Date: 31 December. Applicants will be notified of the outcome at the beginning of the following April.
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Return to the British Academy indexGrants from this fund are intended to provide support for non-site-specific research proposals which involve the application of established scientific techniques, whether through provision of services of an identified specialist, or through access to certain existing Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) supported facilities. Applications for any kind of science-based archaeology are eligible, provided that the project is self-contained, using a reasonably well-established technique or approach, and not site-specific. Applications whose aim is primarily methodological are not encouraged. This fund is not intended as an adjunct to site-specific post-excavation costs, for which funding should be sought under the Archaeological Fieldwork and Post-Excavation scheme. Applications are invited from archaeologists, archaeological scientists and archaeological conservators resident in the United Kingdom Grants are available up to a limit of £10,000 in any one year.
Closing Date: 31 December. Applicants will be notified of the outcome at the beginning of the following April.
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Return to the British Academy indexGrants are available to help meet the costs of travel by British scholars to overseas conferences or similar gatherings abroad. Applications for assistance with conference fees, maintenance costs or travel insurance will not be considered. Grants are for British scholars presenting an academic paper by invitation of the conference organisers. Preference will be given to younger postdoctoral scholars, and account will be taken of previous support for conference attendance, with no more than two awards being made in three years, and no more than one award in a twelve-month period. Grants will not exceed the cost of the cheapest Apex-type fare, and will not normally exceed £650. All applications for a single conference will normally be considered at the same time, in accordance with the timetable given below; and generally no more than four awards will be made for a single conference, except in the case of major disciplinary congresses.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome within three months of the relevant closing date.
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Return to the British Academy indexGrants are available to help meet the costs of overseas scholars contributing major papers at conferences held in Britain. Grants will normally be made for travel expenses, but applications for maintenance will also be considered. Conference fees will not be met. There is no prescribed maximum sum, but grants rarely exceed £1,000.
Closing Dates: 30 September, 30 November, 28 February and 30 April. Applicants will be notified of the outcome approximately three months after the closing date. Applications should not be submitted more than a year in advance of the conference.
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Return to the British Academy indexThe HRB will also consider requests for support for conferences, seminars and workshops in the UK which fall outside the Conference Grant schemes. Examples may include small seminars or workshops of established specialists in particular areas of study; or workshops in specialist areas such as the exploitation of specialist collections in museums, libraries or archives. A request should be made by letter in the first instance, and well in advance, so that it can be considered by the Research Committee before the conference or seminar is due to take place.
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Return to the British Academy indexGrants are available to assist authors to publish scholarly monographs. The subventions are intended to help defray production costs in cases where publication would not otherwise be possible. The scheme does not exist to guarantee a publisher’s profits, nor to reduce the retail price of a book. Particular emphasis is given to enabling younger scholars to publish a first monograph. The manuscript must have been completed and accepted by the publisher (subject to any conditions concerning the provision of a subvention) before an application is made. Subventions do not normally exceed 25% (to a maximum of around £2,000) of the direct costs of production, excluding any element of publisher’s overheads. A detailed breakdown of costs and projected income from sales is required from the publisher.
Closing dates: 30 September, 30 November and 28 February. Applicants will be notified of the outcome approximately three months later.
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Return to the British Academy indexLimited funds are available to help learned journals meet production costs in cases where publication would not otherwise be possible. Priority is given to helping new journals to establish themselves, though extraordinary costs arising from a particular issue may also be met. Few awards exceed £1,000.
Closing date: 30 November. Applicants will be notified of the outcome in March.
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Return to the British Academy indexAwards are available to relieve staff of teaching and administrative responsibilities in order to bring a research project to publication. The next awards under this scheme are available to be taken up during the 1998/99 academic year. The scheme is open to full-time members of the academic staff of any institution of higher education in the United Kingdom. A contribution towards the salary costs for the replacement member of staff will be provided.
Closing date: 1 November 1997. Applicants will be notified of the outcome in late February 1998.
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Return to the British Academy indexThe Academy provides opportunities for scholars to undertake approved programmes of research overseas, through exchange agreements with institutions in the following countries (the deadlines for applications are shown for each scheme):
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Return to the British Academy indexThe British Academy is able to bid for support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office East/West Cultural Initiatives Fund for specific projects. Applications should first be made to the Academy; if approved, the bids will be submitted to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Grants are intended to support joint symposia or aspects of joint research with Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Grants may be used to meet the accommodation, maintenance and travel expenses within Britain of overseas and British participants. In exceptional circumstances grants may also be used to meet he expenses of overseas scholars in travelling to the United Kingdom.
Closing date: 30 September; activities should take place during the following financial year (beginning on 1 April).
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