Bursary award

	Document Contents Introduction Purpose Terms and eligibility Awards procedure and timetable Application procedure Previous award winners

The ALLC has a scheme for the award of bursaries in relation to its annual joint conference. Please note that some details of the scheme are subject to change from one year to the next. General enquiries about the scheme should be addressed to allc@kcl.ac.uk.

Introduction

As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, each year the ALLC awards up to five bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who are members of the Association and who have papers or posters accepted for presentation at the joint ALLC/ACH international conference. Application for a bursary must be made at the same time as the proposal for a paper or poster is submitted, using the application form on this web site. Applications will be considered after the Program Committee has decided which papers are to be accepted. Recipients will be notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is contributing substantially to the paper.

Purpose

The purpose of the bursary scheme is to assist students and young scholars who have a significant contribution to make in the field of humanities computing, and to promote the involvement of outstanding young scholars in the application of computing in humanities research.

Terms and eligibility

The ALLC has attached the following conditions to the award of its annual bursaries:

1. Awards will be made only to paid-up members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (Note: membership of the Association is by subscription to its journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, at whose web site subscription information may be found).
2. To be eligible for an award, an applicant must be either a 'student' or a 'young scholar'. To qualify as a 'student', an applicant must supply evidence of registration for full- or part-time study at a recognized institution of higher education. To qualify as a 'young scholar', applicants must either (i) provide proof that they will be aged 30 years or less at the start of the conference; or (ii) explain clearly, with relevant substantiating evidence, why the awards panel should consider them to be 'young scholars', for example that they began their academic careers late, and have not yet had the opportunity to establish themselves in their discipline.
3. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but evidence must be presented that s/he is contributing substantially to the paper.

Awards will be made only where sufficient information has been submitted to enable the awards panel to come to a confident decision. It is therefore in the interests of applicants to submit as full information as possible. Supporting documentation, e.g. proof of date of birth, is not required at the time of the application. However, the successful applicants will be required to fax copies of relevant documents when their awards are notified to them.

Awards procedure and timetable

1. The awards will be decided by an awards panel appointed by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The decisions of the panel will be final.
2. The awards panel will consider all bursary applicants whose papers or posters have been accepted by the Program Committee of the conference.
3. Successful applicants will be notified as soon as possible after the awards are decided.
4. Successful applicants will be asked to provide any additional documentation necessary to support their application, e.g. proof of date of birth.
5. The bursaries, in the form of a certificate and a cheque, will normally be presented at the Conference banquet, which award winners will be invited to attend, free of charge, as guests of honour of the Association.

Application procedure

A new bursary scheme will be introduced shortly for the 2009 conference.

Previous award winners

Click here to view information on previous successful applicants.