Grant Opportunities at GINGKO

Call for Applications
GINGKO, London, UK
Application Deadline: April 6, 2025

GINGKO awards two kinds of academic research grants: the Research Grant and the Werner Mark Linz Memorial Grant. The Research Grant is a small-scale award to fund academic research, conferences or symposiums on one or more of GINGKO’s academic subject areas – the history, art history or religions of the MENA region – in any time period.

GINGKO awards up to three Research Grants per year, normally up to a maximum of £3,000 for each grant (download grant description as a PDF HERE).

Research Grants are for professional academic researchers based anywhere in the world. They must work for or have an official connection with a higher education institution or be able to provide other evidence of their status as professional academic researchers. Applicants must hold a PhD or equivalent qualification.

GINGKO particularly welcomes:

• applications from researchers in the MENA region and/or with MENA heritage;
• applications for collaborative projects, conferences or symposiums involving researchers both from the MENA region (and/or with MENA heritage) and the West;
• applications from researchers based at academic institutions in the MENA region or researchers of MENA heritage who plan to return to MENA academia; and
• applications for projects in regions and countries where there is limited financial support available for research.

Applicants should indicate their expected outcomes in their application. Outcomes should be specific and clearly defined. GINGKO welcomes projects that will result in publication, preferably in a peer-reviewed journal or as part of a book, or else the presentation of a paper at a recognized conference or similar event.

Where the outcome of the research is a published book, grant recipients are encouraged but not required to submit their book proposal to GINGKO. In any case, GINGKO’s support must be acknowledged in any published outcome.

Grant recipients must submit a brief report (750 to 1000 words) to GINGKO no later than two months after the completion of the project, detailing how the project turned out, assessing its outcomes and providing final accounts. Where possible, photos taken during the course of the project should also be included.

Applicants should include a schedule for their project in their application. GINGKO normally expects projects to be completed within two years of a Research Grant being awarded.

Applicants should submit a budget for the entire costs of their project, indicating as appropriate which parts of the budget will be funded by GINGKO’s grant. Applicants should indicate other sources of funding and whether these have already been secured. Applicants must include a declaration that without the grant they would not have the resources to carry out their proposed project.

GINGKO Research Grants will not normally cover salary costs or institutional overheads. Allowable costs include fieldwork and research costs, costs of attending a conference or symposium in the capacity of a contributor or organizer, equipment, travel, event costs, and article-processing fees. Some short-term wage costs, e.g. for research assistants, can be funded, but salary costs, teaching replacements, normal living costs, or institutional overheads are not generally expected to be funded.

Application

Application forms must be emailed to grants@gingko.org.uk by midnight (UK time) on 6 April, 2025. Decisions will be announced in June of the same year. Two letters of recommendation must be submitted in support of each application and should be sent to grants@gingko.org.uk by midnight (UK time) on 6 April. The letters of recommendation must be from academics with professional, academic experience of the applicant. References must come from the academic’s work email account.

Grant applications will be assessed by a panel of academic reviewers. Applications will be anonymized before assessment. GINGKO aims to have at least one assessor from MENA or of MENA heritage on the judging panel. Decisions are based on the quality and practicality of the proposed research, conference or symposium, the costing of the work, the qualifications of the applicant to conduct the work, and the reports of referees. The decision of the panel is final. It is regretted that feedback cannot be offered to unsuccessful applicants.

If you have any questions about the GINGKO Research Grant, please email them on grants@gingko.org.uk.

About GINGKO

GINGKO is a non-political, religiously neutral organisation which funds and publishes innovative research into the history, art history and religions of the MENA region. It works to improve mutual understanding between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the West and operates in accordance with the UK’s Equality Act.

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