CBRL Research Support
Currently CBRL offers the following support:
*NEW* CBRL Arabic Bursaries
CBRL Arabic Bursaries cover the cost of full tuition, air travel and
accommodation for participants in the CBRL Academic Arabic Programme. We are
offering up to 7 bursaries for participants in the first session of the
programme, which will be held from 2 to 20 September in Beirut, Lebanon. To be
eligible for a bursary, applicants should be members of academic staff at a UK
university, or academic staff (faculty) with a UK PhD. Full details are provided
in the Guidance Notes.
The deadline for bursary applications for the September 2013 programme is 31
May 2013.
CBRL Academic
Arabic Programme brochure
Application Form
Guidance Notes
Visiting Research Fellowships and Scholarships: To enable established scholars in university posts (Senior Visiting Fellowships), early career postdoctoral candidates within three years of the award of PhD (Visiting Fellowships) and students conducting PhD/DPhil research (Visiting Scholarships) to spend a period of time based at one or more of the CBRL's overseas institutes to conduct primary research, develop contacts, give lectures, and write up project results/publications derived from a thesis/research. Number varies, closing date 15 January. Applicants for Senior Visiting Fellowships must be employed at a UK university, applicants for a Visiting Fellowship must be British or normally resident in the UK, applicants for Visiting Scholarships must be registered on a full-time doctoral degree in a UK university.
For details please refer to the guidelines below:
Guidance Notes Pilot Study
Awards: These are
intended to enable postdoctoral scholars to undertake initial exploratory work
or a feasibility study as a preliminary to making applications for major funding
to a Research Council, the British Academy or another body.
Awards may be used to cover travel, round tables,
seminars, or initial exploratory fieldwork and research. In addition, CBRL may
assist such feasibility studies through the provision of its facilities and in
establishing local contacts. To be eligible under this scheme, a project must
involve an element of travel to (or from) the Middle East. Number varies,
offered annually; value up to £7,500, closing date 1 December. Applicants
should normally be either a British citizen or ordinarily resident in the UK.
Guidance Notes
Team-based Fieldwork Research Awards:
The Council for British Research in the Levant, and its predecessor the British
Institute in Amman for Archaeology and History, has a strong record of research
in Wadi Faynan and its surrounding area in the South of Jordan, and in the
eastern Jordanian Badia. British research in the region also has an excellent
reputation for archaeological and environmental science. The CBRL is
establishing a fund to support team based fieldwork projects in areas where it
has long-term strategic interests and wishes to maintain UK engagement and
expertise. This new fund is intended to support small team-based research in the
field over the course of two or three years.
The CBRL is therefore inviting applications for proposals focused on either the Wadi Faynan area or the eastern Badia region of Jordan. The proposals should be
in archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, climate, hydrological or related
research. We are also inviting proposals in field based research in
archaeological science or a related field for work within the Levant. Awards
will normally be up to £5,000 per year for two or three years of fieldwork, with
an absolute maximum of £7,500 per year. Applicants must hold a PhD and
applications from early career researchers are particularly encouraged, although
applications from more senior academics are also welcomed. Joint applications
may be made, but one applicant must be nominated as responsible to CBRL for
accounting and reporting. The CBRL does not pay FEC or other institutional
overheads. Closing date 1 December.
Guidance Notes
Application Form (Senior
Visiting Fellowships)
Application Form (Visiting Fellowship or
Visiting Scholarship)
Application Form
Conditions
Report Form
Application Form
Conditions
Travel Grants: To cover costs of travel and subsistence of students, academics and researchers undertaking reconnaissance tours or smaller research projects in the countries of the Levant. Number varies, offered annually, value up to £800, closing date 15 January. Applicants should normally be either a British Citizen or ordinarily resident in the UK or registered on a full-time degree at a UK University.
Guidance Notes
Application Form
Conditions
Report Form
Project Completion Awards: CBRL has a policy of ensuring the completion of research projects, including a small number of ‘back-log’ projects inherited from its predecessors, the BSAJ and BIAAH. In some cases this includes support for additional analytical work, in others for support to produce final publication manuscripts, to complete project archives, or to repatriate research materials to the appropriate authorities in the region. CBRL has limited funds available to help such work. At present most of these funds are dedicated to completing projects that have been prioritized by the CBRL Research Committee, but it may be possible to provide some small-scale support to other researchers. Closing date 1 December.
Guidance NotesApplication Form
Conditions
Report Form
Project Affiliation: CBRL invites applications for Project Affiliation for postdoctoral research in the humanities and social sciences to be undertaken in the countries of the Levant (Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). All applications should clearly demonstrate that CBRL affiliation is sought for a clearly defined piece of research, which will have an identifiable outcome on completion.
Application Form
Guidance Notes