The John Clare Society is offering bursaries for up to £1000 for full-time or part-time PhD students researching in the field of John Clare studies and registered at a university. They will run from July each year and applications will be required by 19 September.
The bursary will fund essential archive or library research that applicants are unable to undertake due to absence of funds. The bursary can also support access to online/digitised material. This may include, for example, digitisation/copying costs of material provided to individual researchers or individual subscriptions to online archival databases (where there is no access through the applicant’s institution).
Applications should be made on the attached form and submitted to the Society’s Secretary at karenatthenook@btinternet.com. The key requirements for bursary successful applicants are shown at the end of the form. They include presenting final receipts and submitting a report for publication in the Society’s Newsletter. Full payment will not be made until those requirements have been met. The report may have to be revised if not considered sufficiently detailed before any funds can be released.
The distinguished writer Ronald Blythe CBE (1922-2023) was the John Clare Society’s founding President from 1982 and served for some thirty-five years. He left a bequest to the Society which is being fully used for the purposes of the bursary scheme.