Project support programme

	Document Contents Introduction Purpose Terms and eligible costs Awards procedure Timetable Application procedure Project Support Programme 2008

Introduction

In order to further its aim of promoting the appropriate, innovative and imaginative application of information and communication technologies in humanistic research, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing has established an annual programme of small grants to provide limited support for projects.

Purpose

The purpose of the Project Support Programme is to provide a small amount of financial support for projects that further the aims of the ALLC.

Terms and eligible costs

Up to 5,000 GBP may be made available in this programme annually. The proposals may be for small self-contained projects, or for a pilot or demonstrator project showing proof of concept and/or providing a basis for a follow-up proposal to an established funding agency.

Applications will be accepted only from registered members of the ALLC.

The ALLC wishes the scheme to be as flexible as possible, and much is therefore left to the imagination and initiative of proposers and to the discretion and judgment of the review panel and the ALLC Committee. However, funded projects must directly further the aims of the Association, or must demonstrate the viability of a larger follow-up project that will do so.

It is extremely unlikely that the purchase of equipment will be funded, or that contributions will be made towards salary costs of an established post. No other costs are specifically excluded at the initial stage.

It is possible that more than one project can be funded in a given year, but the total sum allocated to the programme per year is 5,000 GPB.

Proposals for support in excess of 5,000 GBP will not be automatically excluded from the initial assessment. However, since support for such a proposal would involve the allocation of funds in excess of those set aside for the programme, the Association would have to view the proposal as being of overwhelming relevance and benefit to its members and the wider scholarly community.

Awards procedure

The assessment of proposals will be carried out by a review panel appointed by the ALLC Committee.

The review panel will carry out an initial assessment, on the basis of which it may draw up a shortlist of proposals for further assessment.

At any stage the panel may seek additional information from proposers, and it will seek the views of relevant specialists as it sees fit.

When the review panel has come to a conclusion on which proposal(s), if any, should be recommended to receive an award, they will send their recommendations to a panel of 3 scrutineers, drawn from a pool of long-standing members of the Association, consisting of past officers and committee members who have agreed to assist in this way. Their role is to ensure that the assessment process has been fair and objective, and their comments will go directly to the ALLC Committee.

The final decisions on award(s) will be made by the ALLC Committee, on the basis of the recommendations of the review panel and the comments of the panel of scrutineers.

Timetable

• The deadline for receipt of applications is 28 February.
• The initial assessment of proposals will be completed, and proposers will be notified of the initial assessment, by 31 March.
• The review panel will make its recommendations by 30 April.
• The scrutiny panel will make its comments by 31 May.
• The ALLC Committee will make its decisions at its conference meeting, typically in June or July.
• The decisions will be notified to proposers by 31 July.
• Funds will be made available from 1 September.

Application procedure

Applications must provide a front page containing the information indicated in the linked application form. The remainder of the proposal should be written using at least the following main headings:

• Overall aims
• Specific goals
• Specific deliverables
• Significance of the project
• Description of the project and its methodology
• Project plan and timetable
• Budget
• Project management

In the 'Significance of the project' section, the proposal should make clear how the project would further the objectives of the ALLC. In the 'Budget' section, the amount of funding being sought from the ALLC should be made clear, and if this is only a part of the funding for the project, the source of the remaining funds should be made clear, and the basis on which they are being or will be provided.

Although the review panel may seek additional information from proposers, it is not bound to do so, and it will recommend the support of projects only if it is convinced that there is a clear and strong case for doing so. It is therefore in the interests of proposers to be as specific as possible and to present their case as clearly and concisely as possible.

Submissions may be made in electronic or paper form: the proposal document as outlined above may be attached to the form linked above. Electronic submissions may be in XML, HTML, RTF or PDF format, and should be sent as attachments, with the subject 'Project Support Programme', to: allc@kcl.ac.uk. Paper proposals should be sent to:

	Contact Details ALLC Project Support Programme c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7 Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX United Kingdom

Project Support Programme 2008

The deadline for applications for the 2008 programme is 28 February 2008.