HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE
POSTGRADUATE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT GRANT
APPLICATION FORM
For Interdisciplinary Projects Taking Place in the Financial Year 2015-2016
(1 August 2015 - 31 July 2016)
Name of Proposed Project
Lead applicant (must be a current registered PhD student from one of the arts and
humanities departments or centres at York)
Name:
Department/Centre:
Stage of study:
Email:
Co-applicants (up to 5 co-applicants may be named) NB: the team of applicants must
include people from at least 2 different departments at York, of which at least 1 must be
in the Arts and Humanities.
Name:
Institution and Department:
Status (postgraduate, postdoc, academic
staff etc):
Email:
Name:
Institution and Department:
Status (postgraduate, postdoc, academic
staff etc):
Email:
Name:
Institution and Department:
Status (postgraduate, postdoc, academic
staff etc):
Email:
Name:
Institution and Department:
Status (postgraduate, postdoc, academic
staff etc):
Email:
Name:
Institution and Department:
Status (postgraduate, postdoc, academic
staff etc):
Email:
Mentor
The project mentor should be a member of the academic staff at York. S/he should
understand and be in support of your project and be willing to act as a point of contact
for any specialist advice or academic representation you might need in developing
and/or delivering it.
Name:
Department/Centre
Post:
Email:
Mentor’s declaration
I confirm that I have reviewed this application and support it in full.
Signed………………………………………………………………………………….
Summary of project:
Please summarise your project in 250 words or less
Benefits/beneficiaries of the project
Please explain how this project will benefit the intellectual, academic and/or professional
development of the postgraduates directly involved in it, and detail any benefit that it
may bring to the wider postgraduate arts and humanities postgraduate community at
York. Please also include summary details of: any collaboration with other universities in
the UK or overseas; the nature of any collaboration with other organisations outside the
University (e.g. libraries, galleries, museums, schools); interdisciplinary aspects to the
project; public engagement activity. (250 words or less)
Costs of the project
Please provide an itemised list of your project costs using the following table, including a
breakdown of each expense. (The sample entry below is a demonstration only; please
overwrite this with your project costs).
Item
Catering
Details
Tea and coffee for 12 people
Total project costs
Cost for each
£1.25
Total cost
£15.00
£15.00
Funding sought from the HRC
If only part of the total project costs is being requested from the HRC, please identify
which elements of the project you wish the HRC to fund.
Funding sought from other sources
Please list other sources of funding and the amount that they are contributing to the
project.
Please submit your completed application by email to helen.jacobs@york.ac.uk and
sarah.burton@york.ac.uk and deliver a hard copy, signed by the project mentor, to
Helen Jacobs, HRC Administrator by 12 noon on Tuesday 26th May (Summer Term
Week 7). Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by 3 July
2015.