The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) Community Archaeology Bursaries Project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund through its Skills for the Future programme, with additional support from English Heritage, Cadw and Historic Scotland. The project is enabling the CBA to offer year-long workplace learning bursaries designed to equip would-be community archaeologists with the skills, experience and confidence to work with voluntary groups and communities.
Further details: LINK
Skills for the Future Bursary
We know that one of the biggest barriers to training or re-training is cost – it’s often difficult for an individual to fulfil their potential or get the experience and qualifications they need if they have to pay for it themselves.
At the National Heritage Training Group we’re determined not to let funding stand in the way of personal development, and that means we’ll do everything we can to help our trainees with a tax-free bursary of up to £1,000 per month, payable for up to 12 months.
For many trainees this bursary makes the difference between following their dream or staying in a job they don’t enjoy, or it can provide a liveable income if you’re currently unemployed. We can also often help with funding for some of the specialist tools your training might involve.
Structural Carpentry placements at McCurdy and Co
We hope that the Building Traditional Skills bursary funded training opportunities might be of interest to current or recently past carpentry students who wish to advance their training in structural carpentry.
The placements are initially at McCurdy and Co workshops in Berkshire and then on the Jacobean Wannamaker theatre adjacent to the Globe in Southwark, London.
Further details for all opportunities: LINK
London & South East
The National Heritage Training Group’s (NHTG) bursary scheme is all about finding passionate, enthusiastic and dedicated people to be trained to work on England’s traditional buildings.
Funded by the largest single amount awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘Skills for the Future’ programme, the NHTG bursary scheme will provide high-quality work-based training and skills development opportunities throughout England to prepare participants for a career in the built heritage sector. The programme supports organisations across the UK to help them create heritage training placement opportunities.
Overall, there will be 60 variable-length educational bursaries offered, working on live heritage sites across England. The bursaries are being organised across the country by regional heritage coordinators.
The Building Crafts College is the regional heritage coordinator for London and the South East and advertises placements for the bursary programme once they become available.
Further details: LINK
ZGTF is a registered charity, administered by trustees.
ZGTF’s purpose is to pay for conservation students to visit countries outside the United Kingdom in order to carry out extra curricula study projects on subjects which they have chosen.
Since ZGTF was set up in 2000, it has awarded over £93,000 to 85 students, making it possible for them to travel to 35 countries, world wide.
Further details: LINK
Scholarships awarded by the Politecnico di Milano have a maximum duration of three years and are confirmed on an annual basis subject to decision of successful admission to the subsequent year by the Faculty Board of the individual Ph.D. programmes.
The basic amount of the scholarship is €13,638.47 per annum gross of social security contributions to be paid by the recipient. That amount will be adjusted with any increase under the provision of the law.
Scholarships commence from the actual start date of the programme.
The Departments to which the Ph.D.s relate may, with their own funds, increase the basic amount of the Ministerial scholarship, contributing towards accommodation costs of foreign and Italian Ph.D. non-resident students.
Ph.D. students without a scholarship may benefit from the contributions provided by the Departments, limited to the costs of accommodation for foreign and Italian non-resident students.
Further details: LINK
The York Consortium is an association of individuals and companies who are actively engaged in or support the conservation of built and artistic heritage, and the craft skills necessary for its preservation. While most of our member conservators and crafts workers are based in the city of York and the surrounding area, their knowledge and skills are in demand locally, nationally and internationally.
Bursaries and grants are provided via the York Consortium’s charitable arm, the York Foundation for Conservation and Craftsmanship.
See IHBC NewsBlog at: LINK
Further details: LINK
The RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary was established in 2004 and aimed at architectural and engineering students and graduates, committed to the progress of environmental and social issues. Since then the bursary has enabled a diverse range of successfully realised design projects. In 2012, following generous support from John McAslan + Partners, the RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary has been relaunched, with a focus on the power of design as an instrument for positive change.
Further details: LINK
Engineering Heritage Skills Initiative. This project is a partnership between Tyne and Wear Museums &Archives and the North of England Civic Trust. Through the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund we are providing 1 year bursary placements in heritage engineering with heritage engineering organisations throughout the north east and Yorkshire.
Further details: LINK
Our Building Skill in Craft Workers programme helps craftspeople develop their skills and understand how they fit into broader planning, design and building contexts.
Whilst all of our Craft apprentices have unique talent, every year we offer special recognition in the Hancocks Medal to the Apprentice who is judged to have excelled in technique and skill.
Successful applicants will be rewarded with an eight-month programme of courses and work placements, during which they will be given the opportunity to develop their craftsmanship and use their skills in a broad, holistic building context alongside other building professionals.
Further details: LINK
A partnership between English Heritage, The National Trust, Cadw, CITB-ConstructionSkills, National Heritage Training Group, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
An innovative, flexible and inclusive work-based training scheme to help displaced apprentices complete their apprenticeships, gain a vocational qualification, and develop their building skills to work on older buildings.
Further details: LINK
Rome Prize
The prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture is an exciting opportunity for a young architect to spend three or six months in Rome, and be a member of a vibrant residential community of architects, artists and researchers. It provides an extraordinary opportunity to study the contemporary architecture of Rome, as well as its historic context..
Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship
Giles Worsley, the distinguished architectural historian and critic, died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 44. He was an enthusiastic visitor to Italy and a great believer in the importance of Italian architecture of all periods in understanding the development of Western architecture. He was concerned that architecture schools do not give adequate emphasis to the teaching of architectural history and that architectural historians should be encouraged to experience the reality of influential Italian buildings.
Further details: LINK
The Royal Archaeological Institute has research funds available each year as follows:
The RAI awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (Tony Baggs Award) or master’s dissertation, on a rotating basis. The award goes to the best dissertation on a subject concerning the archaeology or architectural history of Britain, Ireland and adjacent areas of Europe.
As a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students to attend RAI meetings and conferences.
Further details: LINK
Essay Medal
Publication/Research Bursaries
Conference and Symposium Bursaries
Memorial Essay Prize
In memory of the giants who founded or belonged to the Vernacular Architecture Group in its early days, and prompted by the death of Pauline Fenley, former editor of Vernacular Architecture and a keen promoter of good writing, the Group has established a memorial essay prize. Through this it is hoped to encourage articles from those who have not previously published in national or international journals.
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Conference Bursaries
The Group’s conferences are where members meet to study buildings and discuss their findings. Bursaries are offered each year to enable a registered student or a professional in the early years of his or her career to attend the spring conference. Details on how to apply for a bursary for the next spring conference will be published here in due course.
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The International Symposium and Workshop on Cultural Property Risk Analysis is devoted to an increasingly important aspect of cultural heritage: risk assessment and loss mitigation. They are being held association with the ICOM-CC Preventive Conservation Working Group and sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis. They will be at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon immediately prior to the 16th Triennial meeting of ICOM-CC to reduce travel costs for anyone wishing to participate in both.
The website for the Symposium and Workshop can be found at: http://www.protectheritage.com/Lisbon2011
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