prizes and fellowships in naval and maritime history
PRIZES:
Undergraduate Essay Awards
British Commission for Maritime History
Prizes of £50
Submission date: 1 August, nominations by Head of Department
To whom submitted:honsec@maritimehistory.org
Website: www.maritimehistory.org.uk
The Mountbatten Maritime Award - For Best Literary Contribution
The Maritime Foundation
Founded: 2000
Value: An engraved silver Armada plate
Eligibility: ‘a work of literature…that contributes most significantly to public awareness of maritime matters'
Website: www.bmcf.org.uk
The Anderson Prize
The Society for Nautical Research
Value: Medal and lecture to be published in Mariner's Mirror
Submission: Nominations from the Society's membership from November to the Society's Research, Technical and Programme Committee
Website: www.snr.org
Julian Corbett Prize for Modern Naval History
Institute of Historical Research, London University
Founded 1924
Eligibility: Anyone, for work not previously published and based on original materials, on a subject concerned with the naval history of any country after 1500. It is recommended that the length should not exceed 15,000 words.
Value of Award: £1,000 annually
Submission date: 1 October
To whom submitted: The Fellowship Officer, IHR
Website: www.history.ac.uk
National Maritime Museum
The Caird Medal
The National Maritime Museum
Founded: 1984
Medal, £750 and lecture
Decided by the Museum's Academic Awards Committee
Duke of Westminster's Medal
Royal United Services Institute
Value: Medal, £1,000 and lecture
Eligibility: living author who makes a notable and original contribution to the study of international defence and security
Submission: Decided internally after nominations
Website: www.rusi.org/westminstermedal
FELLOWSHIPS:
Caird Short Term Fellowships
National Maritime Museum
Value of Award: £1,600 per month for up to three months living at a distance from London
Submission date: 1 November
To whom submitted: The Research Administrator, NMM
Website: www.nmm.ac.uk
Caird North American Fellowship
National Maritime Museum, in partnership with the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Eligibility: For scholars not resident in the USA to study resources on the North East coast of the USA . The Fellow has to spend some time at the John Carter Brown Library
Value: £1600 monthly for three months, with £500 for travel
Submission date: 1 November
To whom submitted: The Research Administrator, NMM
Website: www.nmm.ac.uk
Caird Senior Fellowships
National Maritime Museum
Value: £20,000 annually
Purpose: One year post-doctoral fellowship, aimed at early career scholars, to support research on the Museum's collections or in any field of British naval and maritime history
Submission date: 1 November
To whom submitted: The Research Administrator, NMM
Website: www.nmm.ac.uk
Alan Pearsall Post-doctoral Fellowship
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Value of Award: £22,000 annually
Eligibility: Doctoral students whose thesis is submitted by 1 October of the academic year during which the Fellowship is held.
Submission date: 15 April
To whom submitted: The Fellowship Office, IHR
Website: www.history.ac.uk
Caird-Sackler Fellowships
National Maritime Museum
Eligibility: intended for mid-career academics, already in post at an academic institution, to devote themselves to a sustained period of research
Value: £25,000 for up to two years
Submission date: 1 November
To whom submitted: The Research Administrator, NMM
Website: www.nmm.ac.uk
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