The Royal Society calls application for the Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme for the session of 2020/21. The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme provides an opportunity for early-career scholars to exploit the history of science collections, including the Royal Society’s own, in support of their research in the field of intellectual history.

Summary 

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is named in memory of the eminent British historian Professor Lisa Jardine CBE FRS. The scheme encourages junior researchers in the humanities and arts to seek to expand their interests in the history of science and related interdisciplinary studies by traveling in order to use archival resources and to build relationships with the Royal Society and other institutions.

The grant aims to encourage the free movement of researchers across disciplines and countries and to stimulate academics studying intellectual history to consider science in their research. The Royal Society encourages applications to look at the Royal Society’s strategic objectives, in order to be able to demonstrate how their research might further these general goals, but applications will be judged on the strength of their academic content in intellectual history, history of science and related disciplines. However, special consideration will be given to topics that were of interest to Professor Jardine, notably in 17th-century studies.

Grants 

• Up to £2,000 per month to a maximum of 3 months, for travel and living expenses while attending the Royal Society collections and other, nearby scholarly collections.
• Up to £2,000 for international travel to any relevant research destination; for short exploratory research trips (no more than 1 month) or one-off event attendance.

Candidates must visit the official link for more information.

Eligibilities 

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is open to all the national as well as international applicants. In order to apply, applicants must be

• Researchers holding PhDs awarded within the last ten years, in early research positions at universities and other eligible organizations (e.g. museums, galleries). The applicant must hold a permanent or fixed-term contract for the duration of the award in an eligible organization.
• Doctoral candidates with at least one year’s experience towards the thesis stage.

Important Dates

There are two application rounds for the Lisa Jardine Grant.

• The project time for Round One for the year 2020 is 1 June 2020 – 30 November 2020. The application closes on 26th March for Round One.
• Similarly, the project time for Round Two is 1 December 2020 – 31 May 2021. The application for Round Two opens on 3 June 2020 and closes on 30 September 2020.

Please refer to the scheme notes (PDF) before applying.