University of Oxford

Travel grants and other small awards

Peter Lienhardt Memorial Fund and Philip Bagby Fund
Small Research Travel Grants

Applications are invited for a limited number of Small Research Travel Grants being offered under the auspices of the Peter Lienhardt Memorial Fund and/or the Philip Bagby Fund. Applications should be for research-related travel expenses up to a limit of £1000 in the discipline of social or cultural anthropology. The applications committee reserves the right to offer awards for less than the sum asked in order that as many applicants as possible may benefit.

Application is by letter, setting out the purposes of the research for which the award is being sought and indicating how the award will benefit the proposed research. An itemised budget should be provided, in the letter or separately, with full details of envisaged expenditure. These documents, together with two letters of reference – one from the applicant’s existing supervisor – should be sent to the Director of Graduate Studies, c/o Ms V. Dean, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE (United Kingdom). The closing date is noon on Friday 24 February 2012.

Informal enquiries to robert.parkin@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Godfrey Lienhardt Memorial Fund - Travel Research Grant: Sub-Saharan Africa (excl. RSA)

Applications are invited for small grants (up to £1000 each) to support research-related travel or small research projects in the field of social anthropology in Sub-Saharan Africa, excluding the Republic of South Africa. The selection committee reserves the right to offer awards for less than the sum asked in order that as many applicants as possible may benefit.

Applicants should currently be pursuing or intending to pursue research (PRS/DPhil, MLitt and, where appropriate, MPhil) in social or cultural anthropology.

Applications should consist of:

1)   a brief summary of the research for which the grant is required (not more than one page)

2)   a summary, in the form of a budget, of how the grant is to be spent

3)   two academic references from persons acquainted with the applicant’s work, one of whom should be the applicant’s current academic supervisor

Applications should be submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies, c/o Ms Vicky Dean, Institute of Social Anthropology, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE, by the deadline of noon on Friday, 19 March 2012.

Informal enquiries to robert.parkin@anthro.ox.ac.uk 

List of financial grants administered by ISCA

The Bagby Fund periodically makes small grants to young scholars (whether registered students or not) working in the field of social anthropology at Oxford. 
Peter Lienhardt Memorial Fund Small Travel Grants. The Fund was established for “the furtherance of research within the University in Social Anthropology”. May be combined with 1, above.
Godfrey Lienhardt Memorial Fund. In conjunction with Wolfson College. Periodically makes available small grants for travel to or small research projects in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding the Republic of South Africa.

NB: not all available every year.