Deadline- 2 November 2012
Countries/Region- All Countries
The Endangered Archives Programme is pleased to invite applications for Research Grant to individual researchers world-wide to locate vulnerable archival collections, to arrange their transfer wherever possible to a suitable local archival home, and to deliver copies into the international research domain via the British Library.
NB The specific focus of this Programme is upon archives relating to the pre-industrial stages of a society’s development, whether in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, or even Europe.
These grants will be the primary means by which Arcadia will contribute to the urgent task of identifying, preserving and making accessible such archival collections before they are lost to international scholarship forever.
The Programme aims to safeguard archival material relating to societies usually at an early stage of development – i.e. its normal focus will be on the period of a society’s history before ‘modernisation’ or ‘industrialisation’ had generated institutional and record-keeping structures for the systematic preservation of historical records, very broadly defined. Any proposals focusing on material from a later period will need to demonstrate the material’s exceptional vulnerability and significance. In particular, projects focusing on photographic collections will need to demonstrate how the collections shed light on pre-industrial society. Such projects will only be considered for funding where there is a significant pre-industrial element.
Eligibility-
- All grants must be administered by a recognised non-commercial institution in the field of education, research or archival/library management. Such institutions will be directly responsible for receiving and ensuring the proper use of funds and will be expected to account for such use on a regular basis. It is normally expected that the Principal Applicant will be employed by the Host Institution. A specific case will need to be made for the Principal Applicant to have a Host Institution by which they are not employed.
- Exceptionally, Principal Applicants not affiliated to a recognised higher education, research or archive/library institution can apply as an Independent Researcher, provided that they can offer references, including details of relevant experience and track-record of delivery in past projects. In these cases grant recipients will work directly with the British Library, which will administer their grants. Receipts will be required to be submitted with the Final Report for all items of expenditure over £100.
- Any accredited member of teaching or research faculty, and any registered post-graduate researcher, at a recognised UK or overseas university or similar higher education institution. PhD candidates will only be considered for an award in exceptional circumstances and where the applicant has a proven track record of grant and project management. In such a case, a letter of support must be provided from their supervisor, giving approval for the candidate to undertake the project and detailing how the project relates to the PhD.
- Archivists and librarians with responsibilities for special collections in a recognised UK or overseas archives, national or research library, or similar institution. NB Current employees of the British Library are not eligible to apply.
- Independent Researchers
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