PhD SScholarships Royal Academy of Engineering :Sustainable Building Design

Full and Part funded PhD scholarships are now available in the Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design in the School of the Built Environment. To be eligible, applicants should have a first-class honours degree in a relevant subject or a 2.1 honours degree plus Masters (or equivalent). Scholarships will be awarded by competitive merit, taking into account the academic ability of the applicant and the alignment between his/her research interests and the Centre’s research strengths.

The closing date for applications is 28th February 2014.

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York Foundation for Conservation & Craftsmanship

Applications are invited from craftsmen and conservators for financial support. Since 2002 the York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship has helped over 90 individuals across a very broad range of heritage skills. Based in York, the Foundation will consider applications from across the UK. Awards are available of up to £1500 to support training and development and up to £3000 to help established experts take on an apprentice or trainee. Applications are invited by the end of March 2014 and shortlisted applicants will be interviewed in early May.

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Research Fellow – University of the West of Scotland

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Research Fellow with relevant qualifications and research experience to investigate the organization, management, business strategy and financing of the practice of Sir George Gilbert Scott, Europe’s largest architectural firm of the Victorian era. The project will set the Scott practice in the context of Victorian commerce, society, religion and architecture, and will focus on the rebuilding of Glasgow University from 1864-1878, as a major case study.

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Researcher for C20 Society Gazetteer

Post-1914 places of Christian worship in the UK

In 1998 the Twentieth Century Society, a member of the Alliance, published in its Journal a gazetteer of about 2,400 Christian places of worship of all denominations. A further fifteen years of research and scholarship have revealed many more buildings, and the Society wishes to update this list and produce an authoritative, searchable, public access online gazetteer for the period 1914-2013.

An experienced researcher, with knowledge of the holdings of the RIBA library and other relevant archives is required to review published sources, unpublished reports and tour notes to compile simple gazetteer entries conforming to MIDAS and Inscription Standards in spread sheet format.

Ten days work, Fee £100 per day, plus Central London Oystercard provided (zones 1 and 2).

Please apply with CV and cover letter detailing architectural expertise and database experience to coordinator@c20society.org.uk subject line CHURCHES RESEARCH.
Deadline for applications is 6th December. For more information click here.

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VAG Winter Conference Bursaries

The next winter conference will be held at Stamford Court Conference Centre and John Foster Hall, University of Leicester on 4-5 January 2014. The theme is Attention to Detail, with the aim of discussing various ways in which close examination of buildings can produce new insights and understandings that may not otherwise have been noticed.

2 bursaries are available – one for a student and one for a professional at the start of their career. The bursaries cover the cost of the conference for someone attending as a resident, but not travel costs.

Closing date for applications is Saturday 30 November 2013

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The Georgian Group (The Cleary Fund)

Through the F. E. Cleary Heritage Fund (commonly known as The Cleary Fund), The Georgian Group gives small grants each year towards the repair and restoration of Georgian buildings and monuments in the United Kingdom. This adds a highly practical and positive dimension to the Group’s conservation work; in many instances, even though the amount of money given is small in absolute terms, the grant makes a major difference to the viability of a restoration scheme. The intention is to pump-prime schemes, prompt other sources to make grants and to fund specific elements in larger schemes.

Around five grants, averaging about £1500 each, are given annually. Grants are usually made towards the conservation of buildings in public ownership or to which there is public access, although they may occasionally be given towards other projects such as the recording of threatened buildings.

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Middlesex University: PhD Bursary in Architectural History

The successful applicant will be supervised by our Fellow Professor Dana Arnold and will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with Sir John Soane’s Museum on the relationship between Sir John Soane (1753―1837) and John Britton (1771―1857). This topic remains loosely defined and will be up to the student in consultation with Professor Arnold to develop and shape the project according to his or her own interests. Proposals are also welcome from suitably qualified students wishing to research other topics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British architectural history and/or theory.

Closing date: 22 November 2013

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Call for Expressions of Interest to present virtual exhibitions on the AHRC website

Expressions of interest are invited from researchers from all disciplines within the arts and humanities to submit ideas for online exhibitions in the Image Gallery of the AHRC website. A total of £4,000 will be available to each successful applicant or group of applicants to prepare, make available and submit their images for exhibitions.Further details are available on our website.

Closes 29 November 2013

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The Battlefields Trust

Public Relations Intern
This is an unsalaried post designed to provide experience in the heritage and charitable part of the public affairs sector for three months. It would suit a graduate at the start of their career with a degree in a subject that enables them to engage readily with this sector.

The role will be based at the offices of Cratus Communications Unit 5 Park Works, 16-18 Park Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 6BG.

The appointment will last for three calendar months. Start date to be negotiated. Short-listed candidates will be interviewed.

E-journal Editor
This is an unsalaried home-based post. The post and journal are intended to give the Trust greater academic weight in the field of academic research on battlefields. This post would suit someone with experience of (academic) e-journals and familiarity with the heritage sector would be an advantage. The editor will work with the Trust’s research portfolio holder. The time-scale and commitment are subject to negotiation.

For both positions, please send your CV to national.coordinator@battlefieldstrust.com For further information contact the Trust’s National Co-ordinator Dr. Peter Burley on the email address above or call on 07969 861 256.

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SPAB Fellowship and Scholarship Schemes 2014

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings runs two training programmes for building conservation professionals; the Lethaby Scholarship is aimed at early career architects, surveyors and engineers and the William Morris Fellowship is aimed at early career craftspeople (e.g. stonemasons, plasterers, carpenters, metal workers etc.).

Applications are now open for their 2014 intake and the SPAB are looking for enthusiastic applicants that are willing to learn about all aspects of building conservation and – most importantly how to bring the philosophy of conservative repair into their daily work.

The deadline for applications is 1 December 2013.
Further details: http://www.spab.org.uk/

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Post-doctoral Research Scholar – University of Hertfordshire

Full time position working 37 hours per week, 1.0 FTE
Fixed term contract for 18 months
£30424 – £36298

We are seeking a Post-doctoral researcher to support a programme of work funded by Lafarge Tarmac, focused on sustainable living and the built environment.

The UH Lafarge Tarmac Sustainable Living Partnership is providing the basis for in-depth research into aspects of sustainable living. The partnership has reached almost the midway point of its current activities, with the Australian component of the primary research finalised, and is now seeking to recruit a Post-doctoral scholar to support the partnership for the next 18 months, to complete the UK component of the primary research and undertake related tasks.

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UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowships Programme

Reinforcing its belief in “people building the next era”, the Government of Japan offers 20 fellowships per year, for the twelfth consecutive year, to be awarded to deserving candidates from developing countries, especially the least developed countries (LDCs), who are eager to undertake research on one or more of the topics listed. The aim of the fellowships is to support innovative and imaginative post-graduate research in four areas of development of particular interest to UNESCO.

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