Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies

Eligibility

To be eligible for our seedcorn funding, you must be associated with the Univeristy of Glasgow, either as a staff member, student, visiting scholar, or other formally connected researcher. Applicants must be from either the School of Critical Studies or the School of Humanities. 

Summary

Seedcorn funding is available to applicants who meet the above eligibility requirements. Awards made under this scheme will not normally exceed £500.00.

Deadlines

Applications are considered on a rolling basis, between September and June.

Seedcorn Funding Application 2023-2024

The Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies does not presently offer fellowships, but we endeavour to offer these in the future. Watch this space for updates on our forthcoming fellowships!

Eligibility

To be eligible for Alexander Ogilvie Scholarship, you must have already accepted a place to study Scottish History within the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow at postgraduate level, and otherwise must not be in receipt of funding.

Summary

The vaue of this scholarship is circa £1,800 and, in the first instance, must be used towards the payment of fees.

Deadlines

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Eligibility

Summary

Funds are awarded from this bequest 'for the benefit of students and staff in the Scottish Area, as decided by the head of the Scottish Area within History, on the recommendation of staff in the Area.' Funds can be awarded to any research that has the purpose 'of promoting historical research into documents relevant to Scotland that are located outside Scotland, or to Scots living outside Scotland, or to relations between Scots and those living outside Scotland.'

Further Details

For more information, or to submit an application, please contact:

Dr. Catriona M. M. McDonald (catriona-macdonald@glasgow.ac.uk)

Christelle Le Riguer (christelle.leriguer@glasgow.ac.uk)

Deadlines

Awards are made twice a year, once in March and once in November.

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Eligibility

Summary

The Hunter Marshall Bequest is one of the College of Arts endowments providing modest annual income to support research in the broad areas of Scottish history and culture. The bequest provides funds to be applied in encouraging the study of the history of mediæval Scotland, especially with regard to the history of Scots Law and institutions of that period, or to the history of the Celtic period in Scotland, and its relation to the history of the Celtic period in England, Ireland and Brittany. 

Further Details

Specific areas in which funds may be used are:

The Library: to maintain and enhance the Hunter Marshall collection of books through occasional purchase.

Research: to support research through the provision of funds for a modest research assistantship in the fields indicated by the bequest.

Subsidisation of Publication: to subsidise publications by persons connected with the University of Glasgow.

Excavations: to subsidise excavations on mediæval Scottish sites conducted by a staff member in Archaeology in the School of Humanities or by persons associated with that Subject Area in the School.

Applications should state clearly that funds are being sought from the Hunter Marshall Bequest. The Committee administering the funds will consider the applications and advise applicants in due course. It is a condition of funding that successful applicants subsequently report on the outcomes of the work funded. The results of research or excavations and copies of publications may be lodged in the University Library.

Applications must be submitted to arts-collegeadmin@glasgow.ac.uk, using the application form linked below.

Deadlines

Applications must be made by May 31, annually. 

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Eligibility

Summary

Funds are awarded from this bequest 'for the benefit of students and staff in the Scottish Area, as decided by the Head of the Scottish Area within History, on the recommendation of staff in the Area'. 

Further Details

For further information, or to make an application, please contact:

Dr. Catriona M.M. Macdonald (catriona.macdonald@glasgow.ac.uk)

Christelle LeRiguer (christelle.leriguer@glasgow.ac.uk)

Deadlines

Grants are made twice a year, once in March and once in November.

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Eligibility

Summary

Carleigh Nicholls visited the Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies from 1 May-31 August 2017 as part of the Principal’s Early Career Mobility Scheme, which is a reciprocal scheme which allows our PhDs and early career researchers to visit McGill and other key strategic partners. She is a PhD student in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.  For her doctoral project, she examined the legal aspects of the Argyll Rebellion, which took place in the North West of Scotland. Apart from examining relevant and important materials in the University of Glasgow’s archives, she was conversing with experts in her field, and her host at the University of Glasgow will be Dr Karin Bowie.

We welcomed Christopher Walsh in May-June 2018 - his host was Dr Karin Bowie.

Deadlines

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Eligibility

Summary

For the support of research and researchers into Scottish History, broadly defined.  

Further Details

For further details, or to make an application, please contact:

Dr. Catriona M.M. Macdonald (catriona.macdonald@glasgow.ac.uk)

Christelle LeRiguer (christelle.leriguer@glasgow.ac.uk)

Deadlines

Grants are made twice a year, once in March and once in November

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Eligibility

Summary

The Ross Fund provides funds to collect in Glasgow University material from abroad relating to the history of Scotland and to the history of Scottish people and influences abroad.  The intention is to deal with all periods, and with all aspects of history - political, ecclesiastical, social, economic, and artistic.  The Ross Fund provides a grant or scholarship for two distinct types of enquiry: one short-term and exploratory; the other long-term and comprehensive. 

Applications should state clearly that funds are being sought from the Ross Fund. The Committee administering the funds will consider the applications and advise applicants in due course. It is a condition of funding that successful applicants subsequently report on the outcomes of the work funded. The results of research or excavations and copies of publications may be lodged in the University Library. Completed applications must be submitted to  arts-collegeadmin@glasgow.ac.uk .

Further Details

Short-term survey:  A survey of the relevant archive groups, with a full record of what has been surveyed and a brief indication of the amount and scope of Scottish material in each group.  Detailed references to documents will usually be omitted, since the object is to survey as much material as possible in a short time.

1. Such a survey will be financed by the Fund on terms which will normally cover the expenses of residence and work in the foreign archive but travel expenses to and from this country and between foreign archives will be allowable if a special case is made and accepted. 
2. The survey should, so far as possible, be specific about the matter of material covered. Phrases like “Various letters on personal topics”, “Business memoranda” are to be avoided; the character of the “personal topics” and the purport of the “business memoranda” should be specified. 

Comprehensive investigation:  A thorough investigation of an archive group or groups, and the extraction of Scottish material.  The investigation may be limited to a certain period or to certain categories of archive groups.  The University will make financial provision to the scholar appropriate to his or her experience and to the country in which he or she works, this sum not normally to exceed one year’s income from the Fund. 

1. An inventory or statement should be kept of each group investigated or each Scottish item found therein, and of the means adopted to record it (microfilm, photostat, or electronic medium).  Any group producing no Scottish items must be included in the statement. In the interests of clarity and uniformity, an early part of this statement should be sent as soon as possible to the University so that observations on it may be made to the scholar.  This should be done before any microfilm or storage medium order is placed. 
2. Material from the archive may already be in print or available in electronic form.  An attempt should be made before leaving Britain to discover how much is in print, and this enquiry should be further pursued at an early stage of work in the archive.  The University will consider copying parts of printed works which are difficult to obtain in Britain. 
3. Guides to and inventories of the archive may be in print or available in electronic form.  These should be listed and an indication given of which are on sale and which should be bought for the University Library. 
4. Guides and inventories may be available in typescript or manuscript or electronic form.  If these contain a substantial amount of relevant material and can be bought on microfilm or other medium they should be purchased; an inventory of Scottish items written by the scholar can then be dispensed with. 
5. Copyright rules should be ascertained - ie to whom application should be made for permission to print.  Applicants should provide a clear statement that copyright and IP rights are being observed. 
6. Electronic storage and retrieval should be used wherever possible to record Scottish items.  In placing an order it should be specified that each exposure should include the archive reference of the item photographed.  Expenditure on microfilm or other consumables required will be discussed with each scholar, but will normally be met from an advance of money made by the University to the scholar for this purpose. 
7. Photostats for faded, decayed or otherwise illegible material.  Each photostat should include the archive reference of the item(s) on it. Where photostats have to be obtained extensively, special approval must be obtained from the University. 
8. Summaries are particularly suitable where Scottish material is in brief scattered entries, perhaps two or three lines on a page mainly concerned with other countries.  Precise references must be given. Quotations within summaries should be clearly indicated.  It is important that summaries should indicate the length of the document and should be specific as to its character and condition. 
9. Transcripts in full should be made only when a document is very important and no other satisfactory means of recording it is available. 
10. All material collected belongs to the University of Glasgow.  It will be in the charge of the Professor of Scottish History there, who will arrange for it to be classified and filed.  Material will be indexed. 
11. All material collected will be made available to scholars in general and may be cited or printed with due acknowledgement to the University after the formal approval of the University has been obtained.  It shall be for the person printing or citing the material to meet the requirements of obtaining permission from, and making due acknowledgement to, the appropriate person or authority.

Deadlines

Applications must be made by May 31st, annually.

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Eligibility

Applicants must be a postgraduate student in the Department of Archaeology, at the University of Glasgow. 

Summary

An annual bursary to the value of £500 in memory of Sue Green is available to help support a postgraduate student in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Preference will be given to potential (new) research students not in receipt of grant support. Applications in the form of a short research proposal (c. 500 words) and accompanying brief CV should be sent to Professor Setphen Driscoll (stephen.driscoll@glasgow.ac.uk) by 31 January preceding the academic session in which the award is to be held.

Further Details

Sue Green was an undergraduate student in the Department between 1998-2002 and died in a tragic accident just prior to graduating with a first class degree. Having completed an undergraduate dissertation on 'Neolithic settlement in the British Isles: a rejection of grand narratives', she was preparing to commence a PhD which was to review the cropmark evidence for Scotland's Neolithic, critique accepted classification schemes, and look at new approaches to studying these sites. The bursary has been generously provided by her parents in her memory.

Deadlines

Applications must be made by January 31, annually, and preceeding the relevant academic session in which the award is to be used.

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Eligibility

Summary

The Andrew Tannahill Fund for the Furtherance of Scottish Literature was established in 2006 by Dr Mabel Tannahill, herself a Glasgow graduate, in memory of her father Andrew Tannahill (a descendant of Robert Tannahill, the Paisley poet).

The generous endowment of £50,000 has allowed us sufficient credit to work in a number of different ways, to push the subject of Scottish Literature further in scholarly, research-based, educational and teaching-based activities, and in support of contemporary creative writing. In an era when the arts are so often seriously neglected or trivialised, this is a remarkable opportunity to highlight and develop the work the arts can do, crucially in education and creativity.

Further Details

More information about the fund, including its history, can be found here. For funding, applications should be sent to Professor Alan Riach (Alan.Riach@glasgow.ac.uk). There is no standard application form, but applicants should provide as much information as possible about themselves, their project, estimated overall costs and what, specifically, the amount applied for would be spent on.

Deadlines

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