The Capstone Editing Grant for Mid-Career Researchers

The Capstone Editing Grant for Mid-Career Researchers provides up to A$10,000 of seed funding for one researcher per year to undertake an innovative research project. The expectation is that the research project will gather preliminary data and lead to the development of a research council funding application.
The grant can be used to cover any costs related to the research project, such as software or small lab equipment; domestic or overseas travel to learn new techniques or collaborate with colleagues; academic editing of the grant proposal; and data analysis.

For more info and to apply, please visit: https://www.capstoneediting.com.au/midcareer-grant

Applications are OPEN NOW. They will close on 30 December, 2017.

Applications are open from 1 July to 30 December every year.

The Sangalli Institute: Young Scholars Florence Fellowships in Religious History and Religious Studies

The Sangalli Institute is glad to announce to the international community of the young researchers (included the Italians) the publication of the call for applications to the ‘Young Scholars Florence Fellowships in Religious History and Religious Studies’: three residential monthly fellowships (worth 2.000,00 euros each) will be offered to international young scholars of any nationality with ad adequate qualification on religious topics, privileging interdisciplinary and inter-religious perspectives, for the first academic semester 2017-2018.

Deadline: July 10, 2017.

More info: http://www.istitutosangalli.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Call-YSFF-2017-en.pdf.

The Library is calling for applications for a range of prestigious research fellowships totalling $160,000.

• Coral Thomas Fellowship – Biennial. Award of $75, 000: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/fellowships/coral-thomas-fellowship
• Nancy Keesing Fellowship – Annual. Award of $20,000: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-fellowships/nancy-keesing-fellowship
• CH Currey Memorial Fellowship – Annual award of $20,000: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/fellowships/ch-currey-memorial-fellowship
• Australian Religious History Fellowship – Annual. Award of $20,000: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/fellowships/australian-religious-history-fellowship
• David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship – Annual. Award of $12,000: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-fellowships/david-scott-mitchell-memorial-fellowship
• Merewether Fellowship – Annual. Award of $12,000: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library-fellowships/merewether-fellowship

Applications open 8 May, 2017 and close 17 July, 2017.

University of Queensland: The Rae and George Hammer Memorial Research Visiting Fellowship

This fellowship encourages scholars to visit UQ and to access the Fryer Library collection for your research. We invite Honours, Masters and PhD students, undertaking a research project or paper, from Universities outside of Brisbane to apply.

More info: https://web.library.uq.edu.au/about-us/awards-and-fellowships/rae-and-george-hammer-memorial-visiting-research-fellowship

Deadline: 28 April 2017.

The State Library’s fellowships program is one of the most substantial in Australia. Each year, the Library offers Creative Fellowships to encourage the original and imaginative use or development of the Library’s collections for new work.

The Library also provides a number of specialist fellowships to support and recognise the importance of scholarly endeavour in areas ranging from children’s literature and social history to the visual arts, theatre, 19th-century Victoria and Ukrainian studies.

This year, a new Digital Fellowship will be offered for the first time, established to encourage innovative uses of the Library’s digitised collections and data.

The fellowships are funded by the State Library Victoria Foundation and other program partners, and are awarded annually on the advice of independent expert panels.

More info: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about-us/fellowships.

Deadline: 23 April, 2017.

2018 National Library of Australia Fellowships

The National Library of Australia Fellowships support researchers to make intensive use of the Library’s rich and varied collections over a sustained period of three months.
Fellowship categories

Eight funded Fellowships are available for 2018, including two exciting new Fellowships: one for Curatorial Research supported by the Patrons and Supporters of the Libary’s Treasures Gallery Access program, and a Fellowship supported by the Minerals Council of Australia for research across a wide range of fields.

Additional Honorary Fellowships may be awarded to support research and special access, but without financial support.

More info: http://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/fellowships-and-scholarships/national-library-of-australia-fellowships

Deadline: 30 April, 2017.

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program.

Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of pre-modern manuscripts from around the world, with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.

The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the premodern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.

Applicants can apply to spend 1 month (4-5 weeks) at SIMS between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018. Project proposals should demonstrate that the Libraries’ premodern manuscript resources are integral to proposed research topics. Two fellowships with a stipend of $5000 each will be awarded this year.

Recipients will be expected to conduct their research at SIMS, excluding short research trips in support of the proposed project to nearby institutions. Proposals with a digital component are encouraged though not required.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2

Applications close on May 1, 2017.

About

The late Samuel Ernest Sprott, who died on 20 May 2009, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. He was an academic in the department of English at Dalhousie University, Canada, from 1958 to 1985. For almost 25 years after his retirement he kept an office at Dalhousie University and continued his research in early modern literature (most notably in Shakespeare studies). He was best known for his work on John Milton, notably Milton’s Art of Prosody, his first book, which appeared in nine editions between 1953 and 1978, and John Milton, A Maske: the Earlier Versions. His book Suicide: The English Debate from Donne to Hume was published in 1961. He also published a collection of poems in 1955.

Benefits

$42,000

One fellowship will be offered.

Eligibility

• Open to an Australian citizen who is an outstanding scholar, less than 45 years of age at the time of the award, for scholarly study outside of Australia which is intended to lead to a book relating to dramatic or non-dramatic English literature of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.
• Applicants must demonstrate an outstanding record of scholarship. They must outline a program of scholarly study outside Australia, leading to a book relating to dramatic or non-dramatic English literature of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.
• It is recommended that the applicant seek some kind of formal affiliation with a relevant library or university.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/prizes-and-scholarships/the-s.ernest-sprott-fellowship.

Applications close: 1 May, 2017.