Conference Grants
Analysis Grant Rules
The Analysis Committee oversees a charitable Trust (UK registered charity no. 325126) , which has limited funds available to support philosophy conferences held in the United Kingdom.
In recent years, the Committee has been especially concerned to help graduate students by subsidizing their attendance at selected conferences.
In order to gain support, a conference should be analytic in spirit, i.e. the papers to be given should be similar in style to papers published in Analysis. In cases where there might be doubt as to whether this criterion is satisfied, applicants are encouraged to make their case. Purely historical conferences will not be supported. The conference must be so organized that attendance at the conference is not by invitation only, or restricted to members of particular institutions, and the conference should be advertised widely, at least to UK philosophy departments.
The current policy is to make grants only to support the attendance of students at conferences in the form of student bursaries of up to 50% of the cost of conference fees and accommodation for a graduate student. The Trust does not subsidize the cost of travel to and from the conference. Students from the institution hosting the conference are not be supported by the Trust.
Grant applications will be assessed 3 times a year by a subcommittee, with deadlines of 15 October, 15 January and 15 April. The total budget for grants at each deadline is £2000. The Committee does not give retrospective grants.
The Trust notes that some conferences are currently charging very high registration fees and accommodating graduate students in expensive university conference suites. It prefers applications that have sought to minimize costs of attendance for graduate students---e.g. by providing cheaper accommodation options for graduate student attendees.
The Trust is seeking to subsidise graduate attendance rather than help organizers to pay the costs of speakers, so it prefers applications that do not ask for funding just for graduate speakers.
Applications for grants should be made through the online application form to the Secretary of the Analysis Committee, Dr Jules Holroyd.
Conditions attached to the receipt of a grant:
1.The bursary should amount to no more than a 50% subsidy of each graduate student, as compared to full cost of accommodation and conference fees;
2. The role of the Analysis Committee in supporting the conference should be acknowledged in the conference literature;
3. The conference should be open and widely advertised;
4. No later than three months after the conference, a conference report should be sent by email to the Secretary. This should include itemised accounts for the conference finances and an assessment of how well the conference met the aims and purpose(s) set out in the application for a grant, after which the relevant funds will be released.
