Postgraduate Travel and Research Fund

Applications are invited from postgraduate taught Masters students for a limited number of travel grants (maximum £300 each) to help support research work carried out in connection with Masters dissertation topics. The aim of the Trust is to make awards either to support students’ travel to their fieldwork area or to contribute to expenses incurred in conducting library or archival research.

Applicants should state clearly in no fewer than 300 and no more than 500 words in total:

i) the nature of the proposed project;

ii) the contribution the project will make to anthropological understanding;

iii) the practical arrangements which have been made;

iv) the purpose to which the grant will
be put;

v) a breakdown of the estimated total costs of the project.

The nature of the project, the contribution it will make to anthropology, and the kinds of question the research will address need to be spelled out clearly to the committee.

A statement of support from the applicant’s supervisor should accompany an application.

Candidates must confirm that they have applied for ethical approval of the research project. They should notify the Trust as soon as approval has been granted. Funding is conditional on ethics clearance.

Applications, including an email address, should be submitted on the application form to the Social Anthropology Departmental Office (pgpafs(at)st-andrews(dot)ac(dot)uk), by 12.00 noon, Friday 7^th week of the Second Semester.

Successful applicants will be expected to submit a short report
by the submission date of their Masters dissertation in August,
detailing how the grant was used. Please address in your report the five points referred to in your application (see above) and tell the Trustees how progress was made on each.

For further details contact Prof. Roy Dilley, Chair of Trustees. (rmd(at)st-andrews(dot)ac(dot)uk)