VMs: British Academy - awards for Networks...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Reading through the British Academy website, ISTM that it might be a good 
idea to apply for a Network award, in order to support the work we're all 
doing & to help fund seminars etc.

	http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/networks.html

	Funds are available to support small networks of scholars
	from different countries meeting over a period of three to
	five years to work on particular issues or questions of
	methodology. Grants will be offered to support travel and
	maintenance costs for individual visits, or for workshops
	and symposia. Priority will be given to proposals involving
	younger scholars. The funding is not intended to cover
	major research expenses, for which support must be
	sought elsewhere.

Administratively, study of the VMs would appear to fall under the BA's 
Section H9 "Early Modern History".

The next deadline for a funding round (AIUI there are three per year) is 
September 30th 2003, so I think it would be a good idea to try to see if we 
can come up with (at speed):-
(a) a proposal title summing up the kind of networking/meeting we'd use the 
award for
(b) two academic referees who are both well-respected and sympathetic to 
our aims

For (a), I looked at the list of past Network awards for inspiration:
	http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/NTWpastawards.html

Some quick suggestions (feel free to improve on them):-
	* Transcription and collaboration in Voynich Manuscript studies
	* International cross-disciplinary study of the Voynich Manuscript
	* Towards collaborational tools for Voynich Manuscript reasearch

For (b), my first thoughts were for Jim Reeds and Charles Burnett, but does 
anyone have any better ideas? Who would be the best referee?

The only other thing: every past award recipient on the list is a Dr or 
Professor... do we have any UK PhD's on-list who would perhaps be an 
appropriate applicant?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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