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| Page updated 1 February 2012 |
The MHRA provides financial support to the academic community in the following ways:
Research Associateships
These awards are made to established corporate projects rather than individuals, and are designed to hasten completion of a project through the provision of part-time research assistance.*
The awards will normally be for one year only, but applications will be considered from projects that have previously held an Associateship.
One aim of the awards is to provide an interim academic position to scholars who have not yet obtained a permanent academic post. The importance of this aspect of the position is highlighted by the fact that in recent years the tenure of an Associateship has frequently assisted the holder to obtain a permanent university lectureship soon afterwards.
The Association intends to make up to four research awards of £18,000 for the academic session 2012–2013 (with a start date on or after 1st October 2012). The deadline for applications was 31 January 2012.
Further details, for reference only, are available here:
* Please note that the MHRA does not provide financial support for postgraduate students
The Modern Humanities Research Association intends to make up to ten grants of up to £1,500 p.a. each to support conferences or colloquia within the field of medieval and modern European languages and literatures (including English) held in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland and organised by academics based at UK or Irish institutions. There will be two application rounds in the calendar year with up to five grants awarded in each round; the schedules for 2012 are set out below.
Deadlines and Timescales
Application deadline: 31st January 2012
Decisions expected by: end of March 2012
For conferences taking place between: 1st September 2012 and 28th February 2013.
Application deadline: 31st July 2012
Decisions expected by: end of September 2012
For conferences taking place between: 1st March 2013 and 30th September 2013.
Applications can only be considered in the correct round, based on the planned date of the conference.
The awards will not be made to individuals to attend conferences, but to the organizers of conferences to provide assistance with organizational support and/or the travel and subsistence costs of certain participants, including postgraduate students.
The 2012 application form and regulations are available here:
Publications Fund
For a number of reasons the MHRA has decided to discontinue its publications fund with immediate effect. The Association is still willing to consider joint publication with a commercial publisher in special cases if the project is judged by the MHRA committee to be important and/or prestigious. In such cases the publisher should communicate with the Association directly, via the Hon. Secretary, Dr Barbara Burns, email: barbara.burns@glasgow.ac.uk . The publisher's statement should include a detailed financial budget, and an indication of the size of the print run and the selling price, on the basis that costs and revenue would be shared 50:50.
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