Please note that the
Annette Lawson Charitable Trust research grant competition is now open to all Doctoral students. Please find the application form here.
The AL Charitable Trust is a 30-year-old educational foundation promoting gender research. Grants of up to £1,000 are available this year to PhD students in the social sciences. This year's grant competition focuses on the theme of The Gender Dynamics of Crisis and Community. Please see below for further details.
The deadline for applications is 21 December.
In particular, the Trust invites applications for small grants:
· To enable research in the pursuit of a PhD project
· To help fund travel, interviewing, or media connected with PhD research
· To contribute towards writing-up costs for a PhD dissertation
Call for Applications: The Gender Dynamics of Crisis and Community
Recent years have seen a range of crises that have affected community cohesion, from climate change to pandemics, failures of governance to austerity programmes. Yet communities have generated some of the most effective responses to these crises. The AL Charitable Trust aims to support projects that explore gendered forms of community activism in the face of crisis. Both ‘community’ and ‘crisis’ are understood broadly. Community includes place-based groups, issue-based groups, and self-defence groups. Crisis includes the impact of extractive practices of various kinds, financial crisis and austerity, threats to public health, and state violence against, or the failure of state protection for, racialized minorities. In whichever ways crisis and community are explored, issues of gender must be front-and-central to projects that the Trust supports.
Please see our website for further details: http://alcharitabletrust.org.uk/
The completed applications form and one letter of reference should be sent to this email address: info@alcharitabletrust.org.uk