Category Archives: Funding

Funding | National Library of Australia Summer Scholarship 2021

August 17, 2020Funding

Apply now for a 2021 Summer Scholarship Have you started your PhD and require access to the National Library of Australia’s world-class collections? Summer Scholarships support Australian PhD students to spend six weeks at the National Library, from 11 January to 19 February 2021, researching the collections. Scholars receive a stipend of $6000 to cover travel, accommodation and living costs, access to the Fellows room with office facilities, as well as special and supported access to collections. Up to five scholarships are available:’ Two Norman McCann Scholarships* for research into Australian history, Australian literature, librarianship, archives administration, or museum studies […]

PhD Scholarship: Visual Medical Humanities | Australian National University

June 29, 2020FundingArt and Medicine, Funding, PhD Scholarship

The Australian National University is offering a PhD scholarship for a candidate interested in Art History, Visual and Material Culture, Medical History, Medical Humanities, Disability Studies or, preferably, a combination of the above. The candidate will work with Dr. Keren Hammerschlag, with funding from the ANU Futures Scheme, on a topic related to the Visual Medical Humanities. The Visual Medical Humanities, which encompasses museum studies, art history and art practice, has been recognised as a major area for research and teaching innovation in the new critical Medical Humanities. In the Medical Humanities, medicine engages with the humanities, social sciences, and […]

Research Continuity Grants from the Paul Mellon Centre – Open to international applicants

May 1, 2020Funding

Editor’s note – we have checked with the Paul Mellona nd these are definitely open to Australian researchers with relevant projects. The Paul Mellon Centre has made £200,000 available in a special programme of funding designed to support the field of British art studies during the COVID-19 crisis. Website: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/announcing-a-new-programme-of-fellowships-and-grants/page/1 The programme will provide quickly released funding for both individuals and institutions, and is intended to sustain research, writing and thinking on British art and architecture during a period of unprecedented disruption for the scholarly and curatorial communities. Research Continuity Grants Research Continuity Grants are awards of £10,000 intended for institutions […]

Applications Open | Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2020 round grants and awards

February 28, 2020Funding, Prizes

Every year the Australian Academy of the Humanities offers a series of prestigious grants and awards as part of their ongoing commitment to fostering and promoting the highest quality humanities research and supporting the next generation of scholars and practitioners. This year the Academy is offering the following opportunities: Max Crawford Medal Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise by an early career humanities researcher Medal for Excellence in Translation a major national award that recognises outstanding achievement in literary translation John Mulvaney Fellowship $4,000 awarded to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students to undertake research […]

Development opportunity | AAMC Foundation’s 2020-2021 Networked Curator

January 20, 2020FundingCurator opportunity

OVERVIEW AAMC Foundation’s Networked Curator is a professional development initiative for nonprofit art curators that advances overall digital skills and vocabulary, enables them to better understand the resources and possibilities of the sector, and empowers them to collaborate and actively participate in related initiatives. Applicants are required to have a minimum of at least 5-7 years of direct curatorial experience, as well as moderate experience with, dedicated commitment to and interest in responsibility for digital projects. Each application will require submission of an individual curatorial project which they will work to integrate program learning into during the course, this project can be […]

PhD scholarships for GLAM at the Australian National University

October 14, 2019Funding

Collaborative Doctoral Program PhD Scholarships Up to four joint prestigious PhD scholarships will be offered by flagship national institutions in partnership with the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. A Collaborative Doctoral Scholarship will allow the scholarship holder to benefit from the diverse scholarly and professional opportunities afforded by being co-located in a world-class research university and a major national institution. The partner institutions are: the National Archives of Australia (the Ian Maclean Scholarship), the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Parliamentary Library (Department of Parliamentary Services). The successful applicants will enrol in the […]

PhD Scholarships in digital design, heritage, visualisation and digital humanities | School of Art and Design – ANU

September 18, 2019Funding

Three PhD scholarships in digital design, heritage, visualisation and digital humanities. For full details and to apply visit the website: https://anudesign.com.au/apply/ PhD Scholarship: Mapping travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy $27,596 p/a, 3 years ARC DECRA Project DE190100578 Travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy “Travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy” investigates questions about cross-cultural communication that are raised when many copies of certain art objects—prints or medals—exist in distant lands across the globe. It does so through a study of diplomatic gifts sent from France to other countries in Europe, Asia, and the New World in the […]

Australian Muslim Artist Art Prize

July 26, 2019Funding

A new Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Museum and La Trobe University is focussing on the strengthening of their relationship and the expansion of the Australian Muslim Artists exhibition. This will include an inaugural Australian Muslim Artist Art Prize, awarded with $15,000 and the addition of a new category, Future Australian Muslim Artists. This new category is for high school art students in years 10-12, with the winner receiving $250. For more information visit http://bit.ly/2MY1iNJ

Funding | Asia Study Grants | National Library of Australia

July 22, 2019FundingAsian studies, Funding

Applications for 2020 Asia Study Grants are open Deadline 30th August 2019. The Library offers annual Asia Study Grants to assist scholars in Australia to undertake research relating to Asia through a four week period of intensive access to our Asian language and Asia-related collections. With the support of the Harold S. Williams Trust Fund and private donors, the Library provides researchers and PhD students the opportunity to engage with the National Library of Australia’s Asian language and Asia-related collections. The grants are available for a period of four weeks at a negotiated time during 2020. Scholars have privileged access […]

Geoffrey Batchen appointed Professorship of the History of Art, Oxford University

May 24, 2019Funding

Geoffrey Batchen, currently Professor of Art History, Victoria University, Wellington has been appointed to the Professorship of the History of Art at Oxford University from 1 January 2020. Batchen is planning to undertake several research projects focusing on the photographic collections at Oxford University. He is encouraging applications from ambitious students wanting to write theses on the history of photography. For more information contact geoffrey.batchen@vuw.ac.nz