Grants for Researchers up to £4,000 from the Willison Foundation in the UK

The Willison Foundation offers a grant opportunity to anyone pursuing advanced research in the History of the Book which could be made for up to £4,000. The award should be spent wholly on actual research, and that any unspent remnant be returned to the Trust at the conclusion of the research. As well as, the funded projects should be completed within the calendar year. 

If you get this opportunity, you will have:

• grant up to £4,000.

Please note: Payment will be made by bank transfer in early January 2023.

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You should follow the following criteria:

• Anyone pursuing advanced research in the History of the Book, irrespective of nationality, discipline, or profession. 
• ‘Advanced research’ is taken to mean work towards a doctorate, post-doctoral research, and work of an equivalent level regardless of the applicant’s formal qualifications.
• Applications from researchers at any stage in their careers from PhD students to senior scholars. 
• Applications will be judged on scholarly criteria and upon financial criteria, including the efficient use of grant money and the prospects of the project’s being finished in the time estimated in the application.
• An application must be made by a single person either as an individual or on behalf of a group or organization that carries out research in the History of the Book. 
• The Selection Panel looks with favor upon bids aimed at developing new methodologies and approaches, exploring new types of resource, and experiment-based projects.
• Reporting the project
• Final reports are due within two months of the completion of the funded project.
• A report should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words long and should be presented as an RTF or ASCII file.
• The report should include a section detailing the sums of money spent and the countries in which they were spent. 
• The report should review the period spent working on the funded project, the collections visited, and provide a factual account of the work undertaken.
• The report should state the contribution the Trust’s funding made to the research.

Selection Process:

• Grants will only be made for specific projects if sufficient evidence has been provided that the proposed projects meet the objectives of the Trust.

About the Willison Foundation:

The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust was established in 2016 through the gift of Mr Ian Willison (CBE). The Trust promotes the advancement of the History of the Book in the Humanities.

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