The Egypt Exploration Society invites applications for grants from its Centenary Fund. The total value of the Award will be in the region of £4,000. This sum may be divided among several projects.
The Centenary Awards are intended to encourage early-career Egyptologists: applicants must be current postgraduate students or within five years of having been awarded their postgraduate degree.
The closing date for applications is 5 pm (GMT) on Monday 3 December 2012. No application received after that date will be considered. Interviews will not be held; applications will be considered by the Society’s Research Committee in late 2012 – early 2013 and applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application no later than 31 January 2013. All applications, together with a CV, must be submitted electronically to: application@ees.ac.uk.
Applications which enrich the work of the Society’s current research projects and relate to its strategy are particularly encouraged:
The Egypt Exploration Society is the leading UK organisation carrying out archaeological fieldwork and research in Egypt today. The Society’s current research strategy focuses on landscape development, environmental change and human interaction in the Nile Delta and Valley, including the Sudan. The current research projects range from excavation at major Delta sites, surveying the ancient capital of Memphis and mapping the changing river course at ancient Thebes to text-based and Archive research. The Society works closely with the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities and is currently engaging with international partners to support and fund excavations and surveys at many other sites.
The Society welcomes applications for fieldwork and also for museum/archive-based research, particularly where this has arisen from, or can be related to, present or past EES fieldwork.
Conditions
- Applicants need not, at the time of application, be members of the Egypt Exploration Society. A successful candidate will, however, be expected to join the Society.
- The award is not intended as a supplement to student grants for regular undergraduate or postgraduate courses.
- The Society expects that the successful candidate(s) will undertake their work between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014 unless they indicate otherwise. Save in exceptional circumstances, and then only with the consent of the EES Trustees, an award which is not taken up by the date specified shall lapse.
- The Society does not necessarily undertake to publish the results of work completed by the award-holder. However, the Society will expect award-holders to disseminate the results of their funded research as quickly as possible and by all available appropriate means - online reports/blogs, presentations to EES members and/or donors, articles for the EES Newsletter/Egyptian Archaeology, etc.
- The award will not normally be given more than once to the same person.
Further information about the award and previous holders is here.
The application for is available for download here. All applications, together with a CV, must be submitted electronically to: application@ees.ac.uk.