Research Grants

The Group can make grants up to a maximum of £500 annually for the support of research by members of the Group within its field of interest.  Preference will normally be given to field survey, documentary research and preparation of graphics rather than to excavation and the preparation of reports for publication.  A summary report of the work will be required within a year and, subject to editorial consideration, may be published in the Annual Report.

Applicants should apply by letter (4 copies) summarising the proposed research and the costs involved.  Mention should be made of other applications for funding.  The names of two referees should  be included.  

Letters should be addressed to the Treasurer:

Dr R E Glasscock
Treasurer, MSRG
St John's College
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1TP

to reach him by 1st December in the year preceding that in which work will be carried out.  Applicants will normally be notified of the outcome in March.

John Hurst MA Dissertation Prize

n 2004 the group launched the John Hurst MA Dissertation Prize, an annual award of £200 to honour the memory of John and his achievements with the MSRG.  The prize is for the best Masters dissertation awarded in that year on a theme related to medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland.  The first award winner is Triona Nicholl of the Dept of Archaeology, University College, Dublin, for her thesis, ‘The Use of Domestic Space in Irish Early Medieval Roundhouses: An Experimental Archaeological Approach’, an innovative analysis of internal space as conditioned by light, heat and smoke.  A summary of the dissertation will appear in this year’s MSRG Annual Report for 2005.

MA students and supervisors are encouraged to submit finished dissertations for this annual award.

Dr Neil Christie
School of Archaeology and Ancient History
University of Leicester
LEICESTER
LE1 7RH