COMMUNITY FUNDING: Identify potential network development grants #17
Description
Professor Martin Eve (Birkbeck) has suggested that we consider applying for a BA/JISC Grant for Digital Research in the Humanities 2018.
The grant is intended as a kickstarter grant, in preparation for larger subsequent bids. Six grants of ca. £10,000 a piece are envisaged. But in reality three are pre-allocated to work on C19th UK Medical Heritage Library material.
"This programme aims to extend support for researchers engaging with Digital Research in the Humanities by offering grants to carry out novel research through the application of new methods and tools to existing digital resources. The use and re-use of existing resources such as digital collections and datasets will demonstrate their capacity to generate new knowledge."
The programme is expected to be able to support the award of around six grants in total of up to £10,000 each. These grants will be awarded to researchers intending to work in any aspect of research relevant to digital research resources in the humanities, including:
• History, including History of Science and Medicine
• History of Art and Cultural History
• Philology and Linguistics
• Film, dance or music studies (within a historical or critical context)
• Literary texts and/or documents in any Humanities subject area
7. Three of the grants are available through Jisc funding and are earmarked specifically to support research that makes use of the digitised UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL) corpus, which includes over 65k digitised 19th century history of medicine texts openly available on Jisc’s Historical Texts at http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk. "
"BA/Jisc Grants for Research in the Digital Humanities (2018)
Scheme Opens - 18 April 2018
Deadline for Applicants - 13 June 2018 (5pm UK time)
Deadline for Institutional Approval - 14 June 2018 (5pm UK time)
Final Award Announcement expected - Mid August 2018
Earliest Award Start Date - 01 September 2018
Latest Award Start Date - 01 January 2019"