{"id":1639,"date":"2017-05-09T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2017-05-09T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T17:33:08","slug":"the-2017-scottish-romanticism-research-award-deadline-30th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"The 2017 Scottish Romanticism Research Award: Deadline 30th June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postgraduates and postdoctoral scholars working in any area of Scottish literature (1740-1830) are invited to apply for the jointly funded BARS-UCSL Scottish Romanticism Research Award.\u00a0 The executive committees of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsl-scotland.com\/\">Universities Committee for Scottish Literature<\/a> (UCSL) have established the award to help fund expenses incurred through travel to Scottish libraries and archives, including universities other than the applicant\u2019s own, up to a maximum of \u00a3300.\u00a0 A postgraduate may be a current or recent Master\u2019s student (within two years of graduation) or a PhD candidate; a postdoctoral scholar is defined as someone who holds a PhD but does not hold a permanent academic post.\u00a0 If appropriate, UCSL will endeavour to assign the awardee an academic liaison at one of its partner universities. For a list of partner universities please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsl-scotland.com\/members\">www.ucsl-scotland.com\/members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Successful applicants must be members of BARS before taking up the award (to join please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\">www.bars.ac.uk<\/a>).\u00a0 The recipient will be announced on the BARS and UCSL websites, and he or she will be asked to submit a short report to the BARS Executive Committee, and to acknowledge BARS and UCSL in their doctoral thesis and\/or any publication arising from the research trip.<\/p>\n<p>Please send the following information in support of your application (up to two pages of A4 in word.doc format):<\/p>\n<p>1. Your full name and institutional affiliation (if any).<br \/>\n2. The working title and a short abstract or summary of your PhD or current project.<br \/>\n3. Brief description of the research to be undertaken for which you need support.<br \/>\n4. Libraries or institutions at which you will work.<br \/>\n5. Estimated costing of proposed research trip.<br \/>\n6. Estimated travel dates.<br \/>\n7. Name of one supervisor\/referee (with email address) to whom application can be made for a supporting reference on your behalf. A reference is not required at the time of applying.<\/p>\n<p>Applications and questions should be directed to the BARS bursaries officer, Dr Daniel Cook (<a href=\"mailto:d.p.cook@dundee.ac.uk\">d.p.cook@dundee.ac.uk<\/a>) at the University of Dundee.\u00a0 The deadline for applications is 30th June 2017.\u00a0 The research trip must take place within a year (i.e. by 1st July 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postgraduates and postdoctoral scholars working in any area of Scottish literature (1740-1830) are invited to apply for the jointly funded BARS-UCSL Scottish Romanticism Research Award.\u00a0 The executive committees of the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1639\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}