Charles Wallace India Trust Awards

Charles Wallace India Trust Fully Funded Awards offers approximately fifteen fully funded awards in the Arts and Heritage Conservation every year in order to give practitioners in these fields,at an early stage in their careers,a chance to gain wider experience and exposure or to study.These awards cover international fares, accommodation and living costs in the UK and fees where they are payable.Awards are generally from three months to a maximum of one academic year.The trust supports successful applications from practitioners working in the Arts to attend short courses or one year academic programmes in the fields of visual arts, music, drama, dance, film, photography and design (with the exception of architecture). It also supports successful applications from heritage conservation specialists for programmes of up to one academic year in the fields:Management of heritage projects or sites;conservation of materials such as timber, stone, brick, metal (including metal structures),textiles,paper,armour,photographs and film;management of museums.


• Requirements:
Indian citizens domiciled and resident in India, aged between 25 and 38 years, completed their first degree/diploma or professional qualification in their specialisation and have at least four years working experience and not have received CWIT grant within the last five years.


• To apply:
Download and complete form at www.britishcouncil.org/india-scholarships-cwit-application.pdf. Also include a statement of purpose stating clearly what you want to do in the UK and how you plan to put this to use on returning to India;supporting references; acceptance letter from the course or programme in the UK to which you have applied or evidence that progress towards acceptance has been made; good
working knowledge of English and portfolio submission either on CD/DVD,slide or hard-copy format.

• Submission:
October 31,2007

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS

Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellowships are to enable Indian academics,writers and translators to spend time in selected universities for up to three months. Eight fellowships have been agreed with universities.The fellowships cover international fares and accommodation and living costs in the UK.These are:Writer fellowship at University of Kent, Department of English, www.kent.ac.uk/english, three months, writer fellowship at University of Stirling, Centre of Commonwealth Studies, www.commonwealthstudies.stir.ac.uk, three months, translator fellowships, British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia,www.1.uea.ac.uk/cm/schools/hum/ lit Generally two awarded, both for January to March (two months), Iqbal Sarin visiting fellowship in Journalism gives a chance for a journalist to do a piece of supervised research on an agreed aspect of the media.Three months at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies,
www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec

• Requirements:
Indian citizens,domiciled and resident;aged between 25 and 45 years;completed their postgraduate in the area of their specialisation and/or have between five to seven years professional experience and not have been given a Charles Wallace India Trust grant within the previous five years

• To apply:
Include a proposal stating clearly what you want to work on in the host institution and how you plan to use the experience on return to India.Applications through the nearest British Council office.

• Submission:
October 31,2007.