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

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

I'm sure we have plenty of PhD's on this list,
but very, very few of them will actually be 
related even remotely to the VMs work
that is being done. I very much doubt that
the purpose of the award will be to support 
people in pursuing a 'hobby'. Still, it couldn't
do any harm to just try and find out and 
will support you if you need. 
FWIW, I have a PhD in Technical Sciences (Space
Engineering - see above :-) ).

Cheers, Rene

PS: No I'm not a rocket scientist, but some of
my friends are :-)

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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