Bursaries & Awards
The Professional Development Award
To commemorate The Textile Society’s 25th Anniversary, last year the Committee introduced the new award called The Professional Development Award.
Criteria/Guidelines
This award is intended for those professionally practising in their chosen textile field, whether craft, design, curatorial, scientific or any other related textile field.
There is no set criteria for what the award has to be for. Suggestions for this award can range from travel costs for a paper to be presented, or travel costs for further research to be undertaken of an item within a collection. Funding for a stand at a craft show, machinery or goods for a practising designer, or funding for a scientific or development idea of a textile product that is struggling to be realised etc.
Its intention is to aid further development for professional practising textile people. The Award is for a monetary bursary of £1000 and is NOT intended for BA and MA students. It is aimed at PhD students and professionals working within a recognised textile field. Applications are assessed annually, and the award is given on the strength of the applicant meeting the professional criteria within their set textile field; there is only one award for all fields.
In order to qualify the applicant must be an individual member of The Textile Society for at least 3 years, or working within an institution that has been a member for at least 3 years.
The closing date for applications is 1st August 2008.
For further information and request for an application please contact Sue Kerry, chair@textilesociety.org.uk
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