CBRL aims to promote, sponsor and carry out high-quality research in the range of disciplines supported by the British Academy throughout the countries of the Levant: Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria.

Currently CBRL offers Research Awards, Travel Awards, Conference Funding, Pilot Study/Pump-Priming, Visiting Research Fellowships and Project Affiliation for research that comes under the following themes:

• the spread of early humans through the near East from Africa

• the origins, development and practice of economic and social strategies in the Middle East from earliest times to the modern day

• the development and workings of complex societies and their products

• long-term landscape and settlement studies; the relationship between people, past and present, and their built and natural environment

• Synthetic studies of key historical periods

• the interface between East and West

• the investigation of multiple identities in the Middle East

• the diachronic and synchronic study of the use of language, music and the written record in Middle Eastern society

Our research funding is intended to complement the BA, AHRC and ESRC research programmes, while being consistent with our declared aims as a charity. Therefore we cannot award grants that are already covered by existing BA grants programmes, nor can we offer research funds to supplement the research budgets of projects already receiving funding from the BA, AHRC or ESRC. Potential applicants are therefore advised to check the British Academy website, our Strategic Research Plan (2006-9), updated summer 2006, and the relevant guidelines and conditions before making an application.

All applications are treated on the basis of the merit of the research design submitted. While priority will be normally be given to continuing projects that have been funded in previous years (up to three years) and post-fieldwork projects (that have already been funded), CBRL is still committed to the need to encourage new projects and to keep access to funding as wide as possible.

If your application is successful, your research project will subsequently be regarded as a CBRL-affiliated project and be eligible for reduced rates of car hire and equipment rental from the institute. CBRL affiliation is also available to projects that are not funded by us, please contact us for more details.

Successful applicants are required to submit a report at the end of the award period. Award holders from 2006/7 can download their report forms here.
Research Award Report (07/7) Travel Award Report (07/8).

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