Research Fellowship in the Built Environment
A single Fellowship is awarded every other year for two years' research in a specified study area.
This award has been running successfully for over 10 years, during which research topics have been 'Landscape and Modernity', 'Urban Issues', 'Human Habitation', 'Transport and the Built Environment', 'Housing for the 21st Century' and 'The Sustainability of Cities'. The Commission now intends to make a further, similar award.
Continuing their theme of important matters for study within the context of the Built Environment, the Commissioners have selected as the subject for this year's competition:
"Climate Change - The Future for Building Design"
A broad, holistic approach is encouraged, and entries will accordingly be accepted not only from individuals but also from formal or informal partnerships.
Candidates should be UK or Commonwealth citizens, carrying out research over a 2 year period, culminating in either a personal mark of distinction (e.g. PhD) or a deliverable work of significance. Projects that aim to inform the wider community are particularly encouraged. In all cases, candidates are asked to identify a mentor who can contribute to, and make expert and objective commentary on the candidate's work, and who will ensure linkage and promulgation of the work to the appropriate peer group.
The value of the award is £30,000 pa for each of two years.
Application forms can be downloaded here [Word] and should be forwarded together with five unbound copies of a project proposal of no more than four pages of A4, to include a CV. Lavishly produced or illustrated submissions are not required and electronic submissions are not acceptable.
Based on these applications a short list will be selected and these candidates will be invited to provide a further, more comprehensive written submission before being interviewed.
Key dates are as follows:
Closing date for initial applications - Thursday 12 July 2007
Short list promulgated - mid-August 2007
Closing date for further submissions - late September 2007
Interviews and final selection - November 2007
The Selection Committee will be:
Mr Alan Baxter - Engineer and Chairman of the Committee
Lord Linley - Designer
Dr Joanna Kennedy OBE - Civil Engineer
Professor Ian Ritchie CBE - Architect
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