The Society supports high-quality research and publication relating to Scotland’s past by making several grants and awards each year.
Grants are available on a competitive basis, to help cover the costs of archaeological and historical research relating to Scotland. Some of the previous projects which have received grant funding from the Society are listed here on the Society website.
There are now two annual closing dates for grant funding applications which are the 30th April and the 30th November each year.
The next grant application deadline is the 30th November 2023.
Grants are made on the recommendation of the Grants and Awards Committee with the approval of the Society’s Council. You do not have to be a Fellow of the Society to apply for most of our grants. As well as supporting research through our main grant fund, there are also a variety of specific named awards with individual remits. This includes a grant award for our Young and Student Fellows. Council warmly welcomes applications for grants and other awards as specified below.
The Regional Fund Buchan Lecture can still be applied for on a rolling basis.
For grants relating to “the judicious restoration and repair of buildings of historical and antiquarian interest in Scotland, England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Greece but especially in Scotland” please apply to the The Dalrymple Donaldson Fund.
Grants are available to anyone wishing to undertake high quality research relating to Scotland’s past
To provide for scientific analyses relating to Neolithic or Iron Age Scotland
To assist with the preparation of additional data and the presentation of material for publication by the Society
To support research that might throw light upon the Roman occupation of Scotland
Grant to “enable experts to visit other museums, collections, or materials of archaeological science at home or abroad”
Awarded biennially for the best paper on the history of Scotland in the medieval to early modern periods
Awarded biennially for the best paper on any subject in the prehistory or archaeology of Scotland before AD 1100
Offered annually in recognition of a paper that best reflects R B K Stevenson’s high standards in scholarship
The fund aims to support lectures in those parts of Scotland that are not currently served by the Society’s meetings
Awarded every three years to an individual who, in a voluntary capacity, has made an outstanding contribution to Scottish archaeological or related work
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