The IHBC North West (NW) Branch ‘Conservation Award’ for 2024 is open to nominations to 4 October, looking for the project that demonstrates best historic building conservation practice in the North West.

The IHBC NW Conservation Award is awarded annually for the project that demonstrates best historic building conservation practice in the North West.

The award is open to IHBC members involved in any historic building conservation project in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire or the Isle of Man completed between January 2023 and the end of July 2024. The professional leading on the conservation aspects of the project should be a full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation…

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Application forms should be sent by email to : paulhartleyconservation@gmail.com with up to 5 captioned photographs and 2 plan/drawings of the project sent via wetransfer (https://wetransfer.com/ )

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The Fellowship is a training programme designed to broaden the skills and experience of craftspeople involved in historic building repairs.

Fellows develop their own skills and approach to repair, and learn about other traditional craft techniques through site visits guided by experienced conservation professionals.

It is a full-time programme, from mid-March to mid-December 2024, running in three blocks, with roughly two months on, two months off.

We recruit three or four Fellows each year, including one Millwright Fellow, whose programme runs continuously.

Could you be a 2025 Fellow? Find out more and apply by Monday 14 October 2024.

Programme

The programme is divided into three blocks of two months, enabling Fellows to return to work in between blocks.

In the first two blocks, Fellows travel around the country together, learning about traditional materials, skills and repair techniques through workshops and site visits.

The third block consists of longer hands-on placements, tailored to each Fellow’s individual interests and training needs.

The Millwright Fellowship runs continuously for nine months, with millwright training placements between blocks, while other Fellows are back at work.

The programme covers a wide variety of craft skills, including timber framing, lime plastering, thatching, blacksmithing, pargeting, flint knapping, stained glass, stonemasonry, bricklaying, slating and tiling.

Fellows will sometimes travel with the SPAB Scholars (architects, surveyors and structural engineers), sharing knowledge, working together, developing their philosophy of repair and learning about each other’s professions – bridging the gap commonly faced in the workplace.

This is a full-time, intensive programme, including some weekend work, so cannot be combined with other work or study.

Supervision and Assessment

Instead of formal submissions, Fellows keep a notebook throughout the programme, recording visits and repair methods through writing and sketching.

They also report on their progress to the SPAB team at various points throughout the programme, and share updates for the SPAB’s communications channels.

The SPAB Fellowship is run by Fellowship Officer Pip Soodeen and overseen by the SPAB’s Education and Training Committee. Fellows are also assigned a SPAB Fellowship mentor (usually a past Fellow).

Funding

There are no course fees for the SPAB Fellowship.

Fellows each receive a £7,000 bursary to cover basic travel and livings costs during the programme.

The Millwright Fellow receives a further £3,750 bursary to cover additional travel and living costs during the millwrighting training placements.

Supplementary finance of around £5,000 is usually required.

CITB grant funding may also be available for employers registered with CITB at least 12 months prior to the Fellowship programme commencing.

Application and Recruitment

Three or four Fellowships are awarded each year.

The SPAB recruits Fellows on merit and is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity in the sector. We particularly welcome applications by people from backgrounds under-represented in building conservation (such as those from disadvantaged socio-economic background, women and Black and minority ethnic communities).

Please note that the offer of a SPAB Fellowship is subject to the applicant providing evidence of their right to live and work in the UK. The SPAB is not a registered sponsor body for the purpose of visa applications.  Applicants from outside the UK and Ireland should check their eligibility for a UK visa before applying to the scheme. Please check the UK government website for more information.

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The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 30 September this year, so if you have submitted relevant coursework on a UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, whether ‘written, designed or made’ – over the two years to 31 July 2024, simply forward it online to us and see if you can win £500 cash, to be presented at our Annual School in Shrewsbury in June 2025.

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For the 2024 Award, as ever, a cash prize of £500 is on offer to the winner, with smaller cash awards to commended entries. Discretionary free places at the IHBC’s Annual School, valued at around £500, are also on offer to selected entries.

Some details of the IHBC Student Awards:

• The award is presented for an outstanding item of taught-coursework accepted as part of either under-graduate or post-graduate courses ending in the academic years either to 31 July 2023 OR 31 July 2024
• Content need not be on conservation, but can relate to ANY aspect of the Built or Historic Environment, including for example, its evaluation ( history, research, investigation or recording); management ( planning, policy, finance or linked operations and tools such as site management or conservation plans), and/or intervention (g. design, technology and project plans), as well as more general practical or theoretical considers with conservation implications
• Submission for this award is ONLY possible online. If your coursework isn’t easily digitised – such as craft work – we can accept suitable digital records, such as a film record
• Any submission must be of a form that can be authenticated by the course tutor in accordance with our guidance.

See the list of past winners

Find out more about the awards and how to enter on the Gus Astley

Student Award website

See more about the history of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards

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Submissions Close – 1 September 2024

This award – a joint venture between the SAHGB and IHBC – recognises and celebrates the quality of architectural-historical research produced by colleagues in heritage and conservation practice, as private consultants or on behalf of Non-Governmental Organisations, public bodies or comparable clients. Research undertaken for statements of significance, conservation management plans, listing, other forms of statutory protection, and to directly inform decision making in the planning and wider heritage sphere makes a significant, but all too often under-recognised contribution to the discipline and indeed to the quality of the historic environment. Moreover, methodological reflection on this work, and on heritage and preservationism more widely, adds much to the practice of architectural history. Our Heritage Research Award will provide an opportunity to understand better the diversity of this work, celebrate the very best of the research that goes into it, and make it better known to other professionals and the public.

The Award celebrates research and critical reflection. It excludes specifically consideration, assessment or endorsement of any plans, projects, sites, advocacy or arbitration etc. linked in ANY way to the research, or the success, merits, demerits or otherwise of resulting advice, decisions or interventions. This separation between research and conservation outcomes mirrors the separation that the IHBC recognises between the advice given by an IHBC member to a client or employer and the potential decisions and outcomes that ultimately may be associated with that advice.

Winning work will receive a medallion, to be presented at the SAHGB’s Annual Awards Ceremony. Winners will also be offered a free place at the corresponding IHBC Annual School. Additionally, we may contact winning researchers to request a feature for publishing on the Society’s website or members’ magazine.

For more information visit the website here.

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The Conservation Guest Scholars Program provides opportunities for established scholars or professionals who have attained distinction in the cultural heritage conservation field.

Recipients are in residence at the Getty Conservation Institute for either three or six months, in which they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of research collections at the Getty Center and Getty Villa, and participate with other Getty scholars, fellows, and interns in the intellectual life of Getty.

Applications are welcome from researchers and practitioners of all nationalities working in conservation, historic preservation, heritage science, heritage studies, and related fields. Applicants should have at least seven years of professional experience and should have an established record of publications and other contributions to the field. Individuals from groups underrepresented across the field of cultural heritage conservation are encouraged to apply. Proposals for postdoctoral research or research that contributes to a PhD or other academic degree will not be considered.

For eligibility, terms, and how to apply, visit https://gty.art/GCIScholars. The application deadline is October 1, 2024.

For questions regarding the program or the application process, please contact: GCIScholars@getty.edu

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Place adaptation and urban retrofit ‘on the move’: Urban policy mobilities and transnational planning for the climate emergency.

Information on the School/Research Group

The successful candidate will join the URBAN RETROFIT UK research project, a new £1.7m multi-university investment by the ESRC, based at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. URBAN RETROFIT UK will investigate how cities can be planned, developed and ‘retrofitted’ for net-zero living and work with partners across all four nations of the UK and internationally to investigate place adaptation successes and challenges, including barriers to scaling up. This exciting new research project is part of a £9.5million investment by ERSC into five projects that will research place-based approaches for an environmentally sustainable future, providing evidence to support local and national decision making. In addition to their studies at the University of Glasgow, the successful doctoral candidate will have opportunities to develop their research internationally through the project’s research partnership with Dalhousie University in Canada, as well as with project partners at UK universities and in practice with planning, development and community stakeholders.

Project details

For centuries urban planners and policymakers have looked beyond national boundaries to identify innovative ‘best practices’ that might help address local policy challenges and create new policy networks with stakeholders in other cities and countries. The search for translatable urban policy solutions has been accelerated by the urgency of the climate emergency as local policy actors look globally for ‘fixes’ that can be readily adopted at the local level to support more sustainable development. The aim of this supervisor-led doctoral scholarship is to produce a new critical evidence base on the transferability of policies and practices geared towards place adaptation and urban retrofit by examining how and why place adaptation concepts and urban retrofit practices move between places and whether policies that work in one place can be successfully transferred to another. Using and developing critical theories on ‘urban policy mobility’, which conceptualise policy innovations as being ‘in motion’ and moving across and between national and cultural boundaries through dynamic human networks, the studentship will be an integral part of the wider URBAN RETROFIT UK research project which ultimately seeks to create a series of global evidence exchange hubs where planning and development stakeholders can come together to share emerging practices. Further refinement of the research questions, methodological approach and geographical focus of the studentship will be determined by the doctoral student in collaboration with the project supervisors as the project evolves. The successful candidate will be strongly encouraged to take ownership of the project and develop it to suit their skills and interests.

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria

• Applicants will have a good Masters degree (or overseas equivalent) in urban plannning, geography or a related discipline
• Applicants will have a demonstratable interest in urban planning and the topic under investigation.
• Applicants should be able to study full-time

Please note that all applicants must also meet the entry requirements for the Urban Studies, PhD. 

Award details

The scholarship is available as a full-time +3 (3 year) PhD programme only. The programme will commence in October 2024. The funding includes:

• An annual stipend at the UKRI rate
• Fees at the standard home rate or International rate
• Students can also draw on a Research Training Support Grant, usually up to a maximum of £940 per year

Application process

Applicants must apply via the Scholarships Application Portal (please see Scholarships Application Portal – Applicant Guide for more information), uploading the following documentation:

• URBAN RETROFIT PhD Scholarship application form (in Word format)
• Academic transcripts (All relevant Undergraduate and Master’s level degree transcripts (and translations, if not originally in English) – provisional transcripts are sufficient if you are yet to complete your degree).
• Contact details for two referees (where possible your referees should include an academic familiar with your work (within the last 5 years). Both referees can be academics but you may include a work referee, especially if you have been out of academia for more than 5 years). Please note, a CoSS PGR Funding Reference template will be sent to your referees for completion)*.
• Curriculum Vitae (CV) (academic where applicable)

*Please note that when you enter your referees contact details on the Scholarships Application Portal and send the reference request, your referees are expected to provide their references by the closing date of the Scholarship (below). It is strongly recommended you complete this as soon as possible, as late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Closing Date: 15 July 2024

Selection process

Applications will be assessed by the project team. Shortlisted applicants may be requested to attend an Interview.

All scholarship awards are subject to candidates successfully securing admission to a PhD programme in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Successful applicants will be invited to apply for admission to the relevant PhD programme after they are selected for funding.

Key contact

Professor James White (JamesT.White@glasgow.ac.uk)

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Volunteer Experienced Fundraiser to support the restoration of historic Poltimore House | Poltimore House Trust

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Following a devastating fire at Poltimore House, we are urgently seeking an experienced fundraiser to help safeguard the structure of this historic mansion and to work towards its eventual restoration.

What difference will you make?

Our Board incorporates high levels of expertise and experience in construction, heritage, social innovation, communication, landscape design and other disciplines. Despite the recent disaster this is an exciting time to join our leadership team and to make a lasting impact on Poltimore House & Grounds. The House & Grounds are greatly valued by local communities, visitors and our volunteers, as well as by those who love historic buildings. You will not only play a key role in saving an important part of Devon’s heritage but will also help to realise an exciting vision for the future.

What are we looking for?

The ideal applicant will bring significant experience of working with major funding bodies, ideally in the heritage and community sectors, as well as in the field of philanthropic giving.

What will you be doing?

Poltimore House suffered a major fire following an arson attack in the early hours of 9th April 2024. Although much of the interior was destroyed, many of the most important Elizabethan, Tudor and Georgian architectural features remain although they require urgent protection to prevent further loss. The Board of Poltimore House Trust, a registered charity which owns the House and Grounds, is strongly committed to overcoming the major setback resulting from the fire. Unfortunately the House was uninsurable before the fire and our key priority is to secure new funding from grants, philanthropy and other sources. Therefore the Trust is urgently seeking an experienced fundraiser as a full member of its Board to help us safeguard the structure of this important 16th-18th Century mansion and, in due course, to support its restoration as a focal point for the community incorporating the arts, creative business, education, heritage and wellbeing. You will work alongside other Board members and volunteers in developing and delivering a staged recovery plan, leading in turn to a roadmap for the full restoration of the House. The role will involve close liaison with our architects as well as stakeholders such as Historic England, with whom we have a strong relationship.

Desired Skills and Experience

Fundraising research / Bid writing, Fundraising strategy

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Scottish Historic Buildings Trust is a leading charitable organisation dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and sustainable development of Scotland’s historic buildings. Our mission is to safeguard architecturally and culturally significant buildings for future generations while ensuring they contribute to the vibrant life of our communities.

Our team has specialist skills in historic building preservation, fundraising, project management and property management. We also bring expertise in event management, building interpretation and in delivering educational programmes. So far, we have restored over 30 buildings and raised more than £30 million.

Following a recent review, we are seeking to appoint four additional trustees to join our strong and committed board. We are particularly interested in inspirational and dynamic applicants with experience in one or more of the following areas:

· Strategy development and leadership

· Property development

· Finance

· Heritage conservation

· Marketing

· Fundraising

· Asset management

By joining SHBT as a Trustee, you’ll have the unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on Scotland’s historic landscape. Your professional expertise and passion for our built heritage will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our organisation and the preservation of Scotland’s history.

Trustees serve a term of three years, with the possibility of reappointment for a further three years. Successful applicants will be expected to attend four meetings a year, either at one of our own buildings or another site of interest and will have over-arching statutory duties in respect of governance. For more information on the work of SHBT please visit our website at www.shbt.org.uk. To apply, please send a summary CV together with a covering letter outlining how you will contribute to the Board to maggie.wright@mwa.co

Registered Charity number No. SC034507

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General Secretary of ICOMOS-UK (executive position)

Minimum:  2 days per week

The current Secretary is stepping down after twenty years of service to ICOMOS-UK. We are looking for someone to fill the position starting in July 2024. This is currently a part-time un-paid executive (equivalent to a CEO) role with reasonable expenses for out of the office work.  It is an ideal opportunity for anyone who wishes to work as part of an international organisation and bring international heritage conservation ideas and knowledge and practice to the UK. It could suit someone who has part-time availability or has recently retired and wishes to retain an active involvement in the heritage sector within an international dimension. Experience of working in sectors relating to the historic/built environment and/or culture and heritage would be desirable. Experience in managing the development and delivery of governance, policy and operations for a small or medium sized organisation or as part of a larger organisation would be essential. We envisage that an increase in membership which ICOMOS-UK is working towards may generate funding to make the role paid in the future.

The Secretary reports to the President and manages a member of staff (part-time paid staff member) and volunteers who undertake work intermittently. 

We are expecting to fill this post by the beginning of July 2024 and would be happy to arrange an informal chat with ICOMOS-UK’s President about the role, on request.

Application process: closing date for the application is 31st May 2024. Candidates should send a CV, no longer than 2/3 pages, setting out why they wish to apply for the post and all relevant skills, knowledge and experience that support the application. Interviews are scheduled during first week in June 2024. The successful candidate will be notified soon after the interview date. 

Job Description

The role of the General Secretary 

The role of the General Secretary of ICOMOS-UK (equivalent to a CEO of a small organisation) is to take responsibility for the day-to-day function of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), to manage the secretariat (including the Operations Manager and volunteer staff), to support the work of the President and Executive Committee, and to oversee the national and international activities of ICOMOS-UK. The General Secretary will report to the President. 

The organisation has been through a review and has been implementing its revised vision to increase ICOMOS-UK’s membership, (which currently stands at 470-500), and raise the organisation’s profile. We are a broad church and our members come from a variety of background and includes architects, archaeologists, geographers, engineers, project managers, curators, planners, carpenters, specialists in intangible cultural customs and traditions etc.  Unlike many heritage organisations which were forced to close down during the pandemic, we were fortunate to retain our members throughout the lockdown and since which demonstrates the loyalty and support we already garner from our members. The General Secretary would work with the membership committee in sustaining this trend and identify new ideas to retain existing members and recruit new ones.

For more information, including full job description, click here

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Are you interested in being a Trustee for the Covent Garden Area Trust?

For more information, or to register your interest, please visit the website.

You can find out more about the Covent Garden Area Trust HERE.

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Deadline: 3rd June 2024

THE ROBERT ADAM ROME SCHOLARSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE is awarded to an architect or scholar to study the tradition and evolution of classical architecture in Rome and Italy, which could include associated urban form. The successful candidate will spend three months at the BSR undertaking a self-directed programme of research. This research — related to the city of Rome or elsewhere in Italy — may take the form of research, measurement or drawing, a theoretical study, an historical investigation or a combination of all four, all related to the tradition and evolution of classical architecture.

It will include a final report or portfolio that can be published with the specific objective of informing current architectural practice. The award-holder will have access to the extensive collections of the BSR Library and Archive and will join our community of artists and scholars, contributing to and benefitting from the intellectual and social exchange that is a fundamental part of life at the BSR.

The scholarship offers:

• board and accommodation in a study-bedroom
• a monthly research and travel grant of £800
• duration: 3 months (January-March or April-June 2025)

Applicants must be of British or Commonwealth nationality.

Read more about the Robert Adam Rome Scholarship in Architecture, and apply here

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Engaging New Audiences with Place-Based Storytelling

CyArk’s Heritage Amplified Grant will provide recipients with an opportunity to amplify place-based stories of cultural heritage through the development of a web-based 3D virtual experience.

Grantees will receive CyArk services to design and build the experience with the final output hosted on CyArk’s Tapestry platform which can be freely shared and embedded. The grant will support the facilitation and execution of all aspects of a CyArk project including participation in our place-based story development process and CyArk’s high-resolution digital documentation of the selected site.

Grant recipients will also receive a small cash grant to support their team during the project activities.

Applications for the grant close at midnight PDT on May 6th 2024. For more information about this grant, please join our webinar on March 20th, 2024 at 8 am PST.

For more information, visit https://www.cyark.org/grants/heritageAmplified/

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We are currently looking for trustees with expertise in surveying, conservation or audience development. Join our active group of trustee directors on our mission to safeguard, celebrate and share this unique part of London’s engineering story.

Kirkaldy’s Testing Works is a rare survivor in Southwark’s Bankside – built and opened 150 years ago this year as the world’s first purpose-built commercial independent testing works housing Kirkaldy’s patented 47-ft Universal Testing Machine. The machine is still in working order (it still pulls metal apart) and both the building and – unusually – the working machine, are listed Grade II*. Much more info here https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1385928 and here https://www.testingworks.org.uk. 

For more information, please visit: https://www.testingworks.org.uk/getinvolved

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SLCT is still offering bursaries to eligible applicants for our time tabled training courses with the help of the funding grant generously awarded by Historic Environment Scotland through their HES Support Fund scheme.

Limited Bursaries left – Finishes 31 March, 2024

For more information, and details of available courses, visit https://www.scotlime.org/skills-training/funding-available/

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A bursary for the full cost of the conference is available for undergraduate, masters or doctoral students (or if you have graduated within the last 5 years), or early career professionals at the start of their career in a relevant field. Apply to the secretary, Ms Claire Jeffery (secretary@vag.org.uk).

Closing dates for bursary applications is 5th April 2024.

Those awarded a bursary should return their booking form directly to the Conference Secretary as soon as they have been notified of their award.

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