British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Research visits to the Czech Republic: Past Awards
An Agreement with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic provides support for individual research visits and joint projects to the Czech Republic.
Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application.
Year of award: 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000 | 1998-1999
2003-2004
To be announced in summer 2004
2002-2003
Dr N Bermel
(University of Sheffield)
Training and consultation for research into a corpus-based grammar of Czech
4 weeks
Dr K Shifrin
(Independent scholar)
Women musicians in the Bohemian Baroque: The Cistercian sisters orchestra of Stare Brno
15 weeks
Joint Projects
Professor R J W Evans FBA
(University of Oxford)
Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians: Second conference, on Confession and Nation in the Era of Reformations: Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
Conference in Czech Republic in March 2004, attended by six UK scholars
2001-2002
Dr M Lianos
(University of Portsmouth)
Visit by Ms K Plecitá to research "Integration of quantitative and qualitative analysis in an international research project"
Dr K Shifrin
(Independent scholar)
Women musicians in the Bohemian Baroque: the Cistercian sisters orchestra of Stare Brno
3 months
Joint Projects
Dr N Cox
(University of Essex)
Cubism, surrealism and tradition: The presence of the past in modern art
3 years
2000-2001
Dr A C Grayling
(Birkbeck College, University of London)
in connection with a joint project on Language, Translation and Interpretation
5 days
Dr K Shifrin
(Independent scholar)
The Trombone as a Solo/Obbligato Instrument from the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Late Eighteenth Century in the Czech Lands
3 months
Dr S O Smith
(University of Paisley)
Local Actors of Democratic Transformation in Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
4 weeks
Professor B D Taylor
(University of Southampton)
Collage: Cultures of Cut and Paste
3 weeks
Joint Projects
Dr J M Cornwall
(University of Dundee)
Forum of British, Czech and Slovak historians: First conference, on The impact of nationalism and fascism in the era of two world wars
Conference in Dundee in March 2002
Dr A Pollert
(University of Greenwich)
Gender and Equal Opportunities in Central Eastern Europe: Women's Employment and Unemployment
2 years
1999-2000
Dr A C Grayling
(Birkbeck College, University of London)
Philosophical Problems of Interpretation
2 weeks
Mr K Shifrin
(Independent scholar)
The extent to which the trombone was used as a solo/obbligato instrument in eighteenth-century Moravia and Bohemia
12 weeks
Professor I Wallace
(University of Bath)
German writers in exile in Prague from 1933
4 weeks
Professor M R Myant
(University of Paisley)
Economic Transformation in the Czech Republic since 1989
4 weeks
1998-1999
Dr J M Cornwall
(University of Dundee)
The Sudeten Question, 1848-1948
5 weeks