Student Funding & Awards
This page contains information about AAH funding opportunities and awards for students.
Voluntary Work Fund 2008
The AAH Voluntary Work Fund is an annual funding scheme that offers funding to students on placements or internships within the UK. Individuals are currently entitled to up to £500 for 4 weeks or 20 days voluntary work. Funding applications are assessed in June each year. Successful 2008 applicants will be notified after 27 June 2008 and reports will appear in Bulletin and online in the future.
The next Voluntary Work Fund deadline will 31 May 2009.
Please click on and download the following VWF Guidelines 2008 and VWF Application Form 2008
Successful work fund applicants for 2007 were asked to write a brief report of their activities. They provide an excellent overview of the wide range of placements and internships we have been able to support through the fund. Please click on the following link to download and view Voluntary Work Fund Reports.
John Fleming Travel Award 2008
Laurence King Publishing offers this annual award of £2,000 in memory of the art historian John Fleming. The aim of this award is to enable students to travel as a means of assisting or furthering their research. The award looks to encourage a better understanding of the arts from around the world.
Students wishing to apply for this award must be enrolled in a UK university at the time of submitting an application and at the time of travel.
The AAH is pleased to announce that Francois Tainturier, SOAS is the winner of the 2008 Award for her application in support of research on The Burmese Art of Making Cities: Founding and Building Mandaly (1857-1885).
AAH Student Dissertation Prize 2006-2007
The AAH is pleased to announce the winners of the Student Dissertation Prize, which is awarded in collaboration with Thames & Hudson Publishers
Congratulations to BA Dissertation winner , Nicola Sim, University of Nottingham for her essay, Performance and the Document: Reproduction, Recreation and Revision
Congratulations also to MA Dissertation winner, Anthony McGrath, The Open University for his essay, Challenging Hogarth: A Revisionist Account of the Authorship of the Court Room at the Foundling Hospital London
In addition, the following applications were shortlisted:
BA Shortlisted Applications:
Alice Roberts, Liverpool School of Art, John Moores University
Do Cartoons Influence the way that Children Draw People?
Alan Read, Birkbeck College Stanhope Forbes ‘A Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach’ Social Realism & the Authority of the Gaze’
MA Shortlisted Applications:
Per Rumberg, Courtauld Institute of Art
‘La Groppa Verso il Popolo’: Pisanelo and the Motif of the Hourse Seen from Behind Laura Battle, University of Edinburgh
Discordant Concord: The Influence of Mannerism on Surrealist Artists.
Sources of Postgraduate Funding
Finding adequate funding for a postgraduate course, masters or doctorate can be difficult and stressful. The SMG has compiled information that may be useful if you’re looking for funding for fees and research expenses. The information is intended to provide a few starting points and ideas, is not a comprehensive directory. Please click on the link for Sources of Postgraduate Funding to access this information.