Postgraduate Research Bursaries
Through the generosity of a number of donors (notably a late member, Jonathan Vickers; the Trustees of the Ernest Cook Trust; the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust; the Thriplow Trust; English Heritage), and of the membership in general, two research bursaries are regularly awarded.
These are
• The Jonathan Vickers bursary, and
• The Ernest Cook Trust Postgraduate Research Bursary
Each bursary has identical terms. All are for up to three years, and are subject to the candidate's satisfactory performance and to the Society's financial resources at the time. A grant of £13,000 for each academic year will be made to each successful candidate, subject to AHRC funding not being available.
Application
The two bursaries have been awarded and will become open again to new applicants when their holders complete their courses of study.
Recent Awards
The current bursaries were awarded in September 2011 from a strong field of twenty-two applicants. The winners were Mark Baker of the University of Cardiff for research on "Welsh Country Houses; 'Architecture in Wales' or 'Architecture of Wales?' " who received the Ernest Cook Bursary, and David Lewis of St. John's College, University of Oxford, for research on 'The work and architectural thought of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott' and who was awarded the Jonathan Vickers Bursary. Reports on their research will be published in the newsletter as it develops.
The first Vickers’ Bursary was awarded to Matthew Walker, a student at York, for research on the architectural career of Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703); Matthew completed his studies in 2008. Recent bursary holders included Joanne O’Hara, University of York, who carried out research on the preparatory drawings for Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell in the RIBA Drawings Collection; Frances Sands, also at the University of York, for research on the Palladian house of Nostell Priory; and Stephen Hague at Linacre College, University of Oxford, for a PhD entitled '"A modern-built house...fit for a gentleman:" elites, material culture, and social strategy in Britain, 1680-1760'.
Terms and Conditions
• Applicants must be registered or about to be, for postgraduate research at a U.K. University or other place of higher education and should be members of the Society.
• The bursary is for £13,000 per academic year for a maximum of three years.
• Applicants should be registered for full-time research. Taught degrees are not eligible.
• The bursary will be renewed annually only on receipt of a satisfactory progress report from the student's University.
• Brief accounts of the progress of the research may be requested and published in the Society’s Newsletter.
• The bursary is subject to the Society’s finances at any one time.
• The financial support of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain should be acknowledged in any subsequent publication.
• The successful applicant must not be in receipt of any other financial award, such as AHRC funding.
• Applicants should be informed of the decision following the Society’s A.G.M. in early September.
• The Society’s decision is final.
