This special programme of grants and fellowships, launched by the PMC in May 2020, is designed to help support the field of British art studies during the COVID-19 crisis. It will provide quickly released funding for both individuals and institutions, and is intended to sustain research, writing and thinking on British art and architecture during a period of unprecedented disruption for our scholarly and curatorial communities.
Research Continuity Fellowships are awards of £5,000, designed to support individuals in conducting their writing and research on British art and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of these fellowships is to enable individuals to sustain themselves and their work in the face of the financial and scholarly challenges generated by the crisis.
Eligibility
The Research Continuity Fellowships are intended for individuals who are based within the cultural sector and who have been affected financially by the COVID-19 crisis. These could include academics, independent scholars, early career researchers, curators, archivists and others.
Our funding programme is designed to support scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of British art or architectural history. Applicants must therefore demonstrate that they are actively working on an area of research in the field of British art or architectural history, and describe the ways in which the award of a fellowship would enable them to sustain their research across the rest of the calendar year 2020.
Funding
Research Continuity Fellowships are awards of £5,000 and will be paid to the individual as a lump sum.
Timetable
These fellowships will be awarded and released in early June, and are designed to sustain research over the period 1 June 2020 to 31 December 2020.
All successful applicants must complete a final report in January 2021.
Application
Applications for Research Continuity Fellowships will open on Tuesday 28 April and close at midday on Tuesday 19 May. All applications must be made online through the grants.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk website. Once registered you will be able to fill out the online application form – no references are required for this fellowship.
