Tweedie Fund
The Tweedie Exploration Fellowships for Students, or Tweedie Fund, grants financial help to research projects taking place in lesser-known regions of the world. The fund only makes awards to students or other candidates without a salary.
Restrictions
There are several restrictions on applications to the Tweedie fund:
- Applicants must have a degree and appropriate experience for any research.
- Applicants must be unsalaried (i.e. not in career-level employment).
- Applicants should be looking to undertake ethnological, sociological or linguistic research in lesser-known regions of the world. Particular preference is given to research based in areas of Asia and Northern Africa.
- Archaeological excavations are specifically excluded from receiving money from the fund.
- An application can be made to the Tweedie Fund in parallel with other grant applications.
- Applicants who have previously been awarded money from the Tweedie Fund are allowed to enter a second or subsequent application, but will only receive further financial assistance in rare and exceptional circumstances.
Recent awards
Recent successful Tweedie applications include:
- Learning and Unlearning the Barefoot Way: An Anthropological Perspective on Innovation and Sustainability.
- Unsafe ground: Living Amidst War-Altered Landscapes in Rural Cambodia.
- A way with words: An ethnographic film-based research project into the use and significance of English and mother-tongue literacy in post-colonial Zambia.
Applying
Please read the guidelines for the Tweedie Fund carefully before making an application.
Deadline for Applications: 31 January 2012
If you have any further queries regarding the Tweedie Fund, please contact:
Ms Jacqueline McMahon College Research OfficerCollege of Humanities and Social Science
The University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh
55-56 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JU
Edinburgh EH8 9JU
Tel: (+44) (0)131 651 3156
Email: Jacq.McMahon@ed.ac.uk
This article was published on Dec 13, 2011