PMC Digital Project Grants (Up to £40,000 Grants)

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The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) is pleased to announce the Digital Project Grants. Digital Project Grants are offered annually to organisations to help support original research which utilises digital media.

The PMC is an educational charity that champions new ways of understanding British art history and culture. Through all areas of our work, including our Grants & Fellowships programme, we promote activities that enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture. As an organisation, we pledge ourselves to ensuring that the histories of British art are enriched and made more relevant to a broader range of people in the future. The inclusion of voices, narratives and experiences that have been marginalised or excluded in the past will have a transformational impact on the future of the Centre and upon British art studies. Accordingly, the PMC particularly welcomes applications from those who are under-represented within the academic field of the humanities in the UK.

PMC Digital Project Grants Scope

Digital Project Grants are specifically designed to help organisations, organisations, galleries or museums support original and innovative research that utilises digital media. They may be used towards the costs of supporting a curator or research scholar undertaking a digital research project or research which will lead to a digital or online project. These projects could take the form of:

An online exhibition or curation of a digital project relating to British art or architectural history, or related topic.
An online catalogue or database of a collection or archive, or an online catalogue or database of a specific part of a collection or archive.
A research project using digital technologies, for example 3-D scanning or modelling, or which might make use of large datasets.

Funding Details

Digital Project Grants are offered for up to a maximum of £40,000 to cover the full length of the project.
An organisation may apply for a Digital Project Grant to provide replacement staff costs and give temporary cover for a curatorial staff member to work on a digital project.
Up to thirty-three percent of the proposed project budget may be allotted to capital costs such as the digitisation of resources, or web development.
The award will be paid directly to the organisation as a lump sum only.
The organisation should give details of any financial support already in place or funding expected, or being sought from other sources.

Eligibility for PMC Digital Project Grants

Our funding programme supports research, educational activities and the dissemination of knowledge in the fields of British art and architectural history, from the medieval period to the present day and across the spectrum of relevant geographical and cultural contexts. Our remit is broadly defined and adapts as the interests of those working in our field change. It encompasses art made in Britain or by British artists, but is not solely limited to art made, or artists from, within the geographical boundaries of the British isles. Rather we understand the field of British art studies to encompass a broad range of subjects and topics related to the artistic and cultural histories of Britain, past and present.
We do not offer grants and fellowships in field archaeology, the current practice of architecture or the performing arts. Applications in the fields of photography, performance, film and digital media will need to demonstrate their relevance to British art studies.
Applications are open to international as well as UK organisations.
Applicants must demonstrate that any project will include scholarly research within the scope of the work.