Fellowships and Grants

Autumn 2019 saw the introduction of the Collaborative Project Grant, an award of up to £40,000, which is designed to support the early stages of a collaborative research project between two or more organisations.

After the Fellowships, Grants & Communications Manager met with the Director and Deputy Director of the British School at Rome in October 2019, revisions were made to the Rome Fellowship remit. These included increasing available funding and a widening of the applicant remit. A new fellowship to mark the Centre’s fiftieth anniversary was also introduced. This £10,000 award, titled the PMC Research Collections Fellowship, is designed to support research on the development of art history as a discipline in the UK, using the Centre’s own library and archive collections.

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, a new emergency funding programme intended to sustain research, writing and thinking on British art and architecture was put in place in May 2020 to help individuals and institutions affected by the pandemic. Research Continuity Grants (awards of £10,000) were designed to enable institutions to continue planning and conducting curatorial and scholarly research projects during the year. Research Continuity Fellowships (awards of £5,000) were designed to support individuals in conducting their writing and research in the face of the financial and scholarly challenges generated by the crisis. There were 215 applications for these awards, of which 28 (10 grants and 18 fellowships) were successful.

The Conservation Fellowship for the academic year 2019–20 of £25,000 was awarded to Barts Heritage, towards the condition survey and treatment trials of the Great Hall and the Hogarth Stair at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.