Fellowships and Grants

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the award remits were changed ahead of the autumn 2020 funding round to better fit the global situation. The Event Support Grant remit was altered to allow institutions to also include costs for hosting online and virtual events; the Research Support Grant remit was changed to allow individuals to claim ‘at home’ research costs; and the Curatorial Research Grant remit was altered to allow institutions to put the funding towards new projects with current staff, or towards existing projects that may have been delayed by the pandemic. The Event Support and Research Support remit changes were continued in the spring 2021 round. In the autumn 2020 round, despite some applications being received, no Collaborative Project Grants were awarded as the proposals were not deemed suitable to the remit.

At the start of 2021, it was decided that another round of the Research Continuity Grants and Research Continuity Fellowships would be awarded in response to the Covid-19 crisis. These were awarded in June 2021. The Conservation Fellowship for the academic year 2020–21 of £25,000 was awarded to Gainsborough’s House, towards the conservation and research of their Cedric Morris collection and three Gainsborough portraits.