Society Grant Awards Announced
27 Mar 2009
The Society is very pleased to announce its research grant awards for 2009.
The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is very pleased to announce its grant awards for 2009. The Research Committee and Council received eighteen individual applications totalling £24,605. However, the Society had only £8,144 to disburse in grants this year and so this total was exhaustively whittled down to just eight successful projects. The Society is justly proud of its grant awards scheme, which, although presenting only relatively small sums, helps to initiate new projects and aims to contribute where the relatively small sums would make the best impact. Receiving funding from the Society, who rigorously scrutinise the applications through the Research Committee, can also help projects get further funding from other sponsors.
This year the Society awarded grants to a typically diverse group of projects, ranging from a project to compare the socio-legal understandings of and responses to serious non-fatal violence in England, Wales and Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and late-nineteenth century, to a radiocarbon date for an iron spearhead with a surviving section of wooden shaft in its socket currently in the Perth Museum & Art Gallery. Please note that the Society did not receive any applications that fulfilled the criteria for the Young Fellow's Bursary this year. This bursary is available to enable young Fellows of the Society (under 25 years of age at 30 November) to read papers on Scottish themes at conferences of international standing within Britain or abroad. Individual bursaries do not normally exceed a maximum of £300, and are awarded competitively.
The successful projects for 2009 were:
| Name | Project | Award |
| Dr John Barrett | The Brough of Deerness Excavation 2009 | £1875 |
| Dr Jane Bunting | Providing context for Orcadian archaeology: developing effective practice for the use of palaeoenvironmental data | £1400 |
| Murray Cook | Hillforts of Strathdon | £695 |
| Mark Hall | Radiocarbon dating of a spearhead shaft from Kinclaven, Perth | £290 |
| Dr Rebecca Jones | Roman Camps in Scotland | £1500 |
| Antonia Thomas | The Braes of Ha'Breck, Wyre: Excavation 2009 | £500 |
| Fiona Tucker | Analysis of human remains from Iron Age Orkney and Shetland | £900 |
| Dr Katherine Watson | Wounding: from mayhem to offences against the person | £680 |
| Young Fellow's Bursary | unspent | £300 |
| TOTAL | £8,140 |
The Society recognises that these are small amounts, and that several of these projects did not receive the full funding they asked for. We would encourage anyone interested to consider donating funds or leaving a legacy to the Society for use in our grants scheme. Our aim is to increase the amount available to the Research Committee for disbursement, allowing us to increase funding amounts and/or the number of applicants receiving grants from the Society. Your help would be gratefully received, please contact the Director if you would like to discuss this further.
