Royal Archaeological Institute Research Grants 2019

Publish Date: Oct 29, 2018

Deadline: Dec 10, 2018

Research Grants

The Royal Archaeological Institute has research funds available each year as follows:

  • RAI Research Fund
    Awards up to £5,000 are available each year.
  • The Tony Clark Memorial Fund
    Up to £500 is available each year for scientific elements of archaeological projects.
  • The Bunnell Lewis Research Fund
    Up to £750 is available each year for projects which preferably involve the excavation and exploration of Roman sites.

Eligibility

Applications will be considered for archaeological fieldwork, survey, aspects of excavation and post-excavation research; architectural recording and analysis; and artefact and art-historical research. Documentary research per se will NOT be eligible, but can be considered as an element of the other categories. Preference will be given to projects within the British Isles, which have significant part-time/amateur involvement and may also be given to those who are members.

Awarded Grants

Research grants for 2018 have been awarded to the following:
Professor Richard Bradley, Excavations at Copt Howe, Cumbria
Dr Vicki Cummings, Tombs of the North
Mr Paul Gething, Geophysical survey and field-walking across the later prehistoric landscape of the Bradford Kaims, Northumberland
Dr Derek Hamilton and Mr Michael Stratigos, At the Water's Edge: Early Iron Age settlement patterns in central Scotland
Mr Marcus Jecock, Hanging Grimston Community Archaeology Project- excavations
Dr Ian Parker Heath, Radbourne: The search of the Old Hall
Dr Rachel Pope, Illustrating Eddisbury: A re-evaluation of W.J. Varley's 1936-38 excavations
Dr Gavin Simpson, Dendrochronology of furniture at St Peter, Lanehan, Notts

One of the conditions attached to the awarding of a grant is that the recipient must produce a report of the work undertaken. A shortened version of the report is published in the RAI Newsletter.

Watch the short short documentary created by one of the Institute's 2015 grant recipients, Upper Dee Tributaries Project.

RAI Dissertation Prizes

The RAI awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (Tony Baggs Undergraduate Dissertation Award) or Master's dissertation on a rotating basis. The prize goes to the best dissertation on a subject concerning the archaeology or architectural history of Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas of Europe. The chief criteria considered are (a) quality of work and (b) appropriateness to the interests of the RAI as reflected in the Archaeological Journal. The winner receives £500, one year's membership subscription and the opportunity for a paper based on your dissertation to be published in the Archaeological Journal.

In 2018, the Council of the Royal Archaeological Institute invites nominations from UK universities and colleges for its Undergraduate Dissertation Prize (Tony Baggs Prize). The prize will be for the best undergraduate dissertation written in 2017 or 2018 on archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries. UK university and college departments are invited to submit no more than one dissertation by 31st July 2018. The successful nominee will be announced in December.

Cheney Bursaries

As a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students, who attend a UK university, to attend RAI meetings and conferences. An allocation is available annually from which individuals can apply for a maximum sum of £200.

Students who wish to apply for the bursary should email or write to the Administrator, at least six weeks before the RAI event you wish to attend. You should state:

  • the UK institution where you study
  • the RAI event that you wish to attend
  • the sum of money requested
  • a breakdown of how the money would be spent
  • a summary (up to 250 words) of why you would like to attend the event and in what way this will be useful to you

Successful applicants may be asked to produce a brief report of the event for the Institute.

For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL"  below.


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http://www.royalarchinst.org/grants

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