Lund University
Call: Hum Rese- och forskningsbidrag vt 2023
Period: 2023-01-25 – 2023-02-14 23:59
Number: V 2023/103

Travel and research grants at the Faculty of Humanities

Application

The application form is available in the application system for scholarships and grants.

The application is to include a brief but precise statement of the purpose of the trip and its significance for the applicant’s research. Please note that it isn’t possible to apply for funding for more than one purpose in each application which means that one application per purpose needs to be submitted.

The management of the Faculty of Humanities prioritises grant allocation as follows:
In cases of strong competition, applicants with a well prepared application are prioritised. A well prepared application means one that contains a description of the purpose, how the purpose relates to the applicant’s research project and/or teaching and a motivation explaining how the purpose will benefit the research project and/or teaching. Highly certified doctoral students are given precedence over those with lower certification. Priority will be given to applicants whose employment at the faculty corresponds to at least 50% of a full-time post at the time of the trip or research project. Applicants from Campus Helsingborg who are employed at a faculty other than that of humanities are not considered to belong to the Faculty of Humanities.

Applicants who, up to and including the spring semester 2021, were awarded a scholarship announced as a travel and research grant at the Faculty of Humanities, and have not submitted a statement on the use of the scholarship, will as a rule not be considered for a new allocation of these scholarships until a statement has been submitted. For instructions on how to submit a statement, see the decision on scholarship allocation.

Applications for funds for living expenses (“personal salary”), in particular for the completion of research studies, are given low priority as a rule. Funds for trips to and from the location of origin are not permitted. Applications submitted after the deadline are not processed. As a rule, 11% of the awarded grant is permitted to cover overhead costs.

Decision

The decision on allocation of funds is taken by the board of the Faculties of Humanities and Theology unless otherwise indicated for the relevant foundation.

Payment

Payments to employees of Lund University are made to the applicant’s department. Where applicable, the application should take account of the department’s additional overhead costs. It is appropriate to include these under the heading “other costs”. In such cases, the costs stated in the application are to exclude VAT.

In cases where, according to the statutes of the foundation, grants can also be awarded to activities outside Lund University or to students, and such applications are approved, payment is made to a private bank account or equivalent. In this case, the costs stated in the application are to include VAT.

If the funds have not been used for the purpose for which they were allocated within the timeframe decided, they are to be repaid.

Grants

Below is a list of available funds with the purpose according to the provisions of each endowment and, where applicable, with the interpretation of the provisions by the faculty management, i.e. the principles for allocation which are applied.

Stiftelsen Fil dr Uno Otterstedts fond för främjande av vetenskaplig undervisning och forskning (92065)

Purpose: Grants to researchers and academic teachers at Lund University within the field of the Humanities for academic research and teaching
Assessment: Grants for publishing research results or dissertations takes low priority. Applicants who have graduated and have no income from the University are not given priority since they are not considered to be teachers or researchers at the University. Travels to meetings, conferences and congresses where the applicants are presenting their own results are in general given higher priority than travels without own presentation.
Amount: SEK 540 000

Stiftelsen Carin och John Papes fond för nordisk och jämförande folklivsforskning (92066)

Purpose: Grants for ethnological research concerning the Scandinavian countries. Grants can be given for research activities and for the publication of research findings. In exceptional cases, grants can also be given for other purposes which further ethnological research at Lund University.
Assessment: The research task includes the so called third task, consequently travels to conferences and similar can be considered when the grants are allocated. In general, travels to meetings, conferences and congresses where the applicants present their own results are take higher priority than travels without own presentation.
Amount: SEK 11 000

Stiftelsen Hilma Borelius stipendiefond (93036)

Purpose: Scholarships for students who have shown interest and exceptional talent for academic research within the field of the Humanities.
Assessment: Grants to graduate students who soon will attain their PhD and have made this clear in their applications or otherwise are prioritized.
Amount: SEK 23 500

Stiftelsen Carl Fredrik Lyngbys donation för främjande av vetenskaplig forskning inom sinologins område, särskilt klassisk kinesiska (93171)

Purpose: Grants to one or several researchers within the field of sinology, especially classical Chinese, at Lund University. Scholarships can also be given to students who have taken a first degree in Chinese at Lund University and have been accepted to postgraduate studies at another seat of learning. However, these applicants are given lower priority than the first group.
Assessment: There are no other prioritizations.
Amount: SEK 1 461 000

Stiftelsen A och Charlotte Wollmars donation (93320)

Purpose: Grants to lecturers and “docents” for travel abroad
Assessment: Means can be granted to applicants when the application states that the person is employed as associate professor or have been approved as “oavlönad docent”. Travels to meetings, conferences and congresses where the applicants are presenting their own results take higher priority than travels without own presentation.
Amount: SEK 5 500

Stiftelsen Bokelunds resestipendiefond (94507)

Purpose: Travel grants for study purposes to permanently employed academic teachers (even years only) and students, who are conducting and have been conducting studies in the subjects history, geography, archaeology or ethnography for at least two years.
Assessment: Students includes undergraduate as well as graduate students. As stated in the purpose of the foundation, studies in the given subjects shall be in progress (during the current term) and must have been pursued during at least two years at Lund University. Applications in which this is made clear are prioritized higher than less explicit applications. The relevant subjects are History, History of Science and Ideas, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology (former Medieval Archaeology) and European Ethnology. Permanently employed academic teachers refer to lecturers, senior lecturers and professors.
Amount: SEK 66 200 (for students)

Stiftelsen Syskonen Anna Cecilia och Otto Sigfrid Granmarks stipendiefond (94510)

Purpose: Travel grants for study purposes to postgraduates belonging to the Language Section of the Faculty of Humanities, with precedence for the Germanic-Scandinavian language area.
Assessment: Applications from graduate students in German, Scandinavian Languages and English are prioritized. In exceptional cases grants can be given to graduate students in other subjects providing the application clearly states that the research is aimed at the Germanic-Scandinavian language area. Travels to meetings, conferences and congresses where the applicants are to present their own research are in general given higher priority than travels without own presentations. Highly recommended postgraduates are prioritized before lower recommended.
Amount: SEK 126 000

Stiftelsen Emanuel Walbergs resestipendiefond (94520)

Purpose: Grants to postgraduates in the Romance languages who need to spend some time in France (or, though this is given lower priority, in atnother country where a Romance language is spoken) when working on his/her thesis.
Assessment: Highly recommended postgraduates are prioritized before lower recommended.
Amount: SEK 104 500

Stiftelsen Roy och Maj Franzéns fond (94522)

Purpose: Grants for research conducted at the Faculty of Humanities.
Amount: SEK 300 000

Stiftelsen Landshövding Per Westlings minnesfond (95096)

Purpose: travel and research grants for both junior and senior researchers at Lund University
Assessment: Teachers and highly recommended graduate students are prioritised for conference travel, research travel and the purchase of materials, printing and others which support research. Travel to meetings, conferences and conventions where candidates are presenting their own results prioritises generally higher than travels without own presentation.
Amount: SEK 74 300