Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship - Open for applications for 2011-12

The Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) is an arts, heritage conservation and humanities scholarship fund. It enables Indians in the early or middle stages of their careers to spend time in the UK, helping to achieve their artistic, professional or academic ambitions and make wider international contacts. The various awards offered by the Charles Wallace India Trust are: Fully Funded Awards in the arts and heritage conservation; Visiting Fellowships of 2-3 months duration, fully funded. Grants towards the cost of Short Research or Professional visits and Scottish Universities International Summer School. These do not cover full costs. Grants towards the cost of the penultimate or final year of Doctoral Study at a UK university. Click here to download the application form. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, 16 November 2010. For more details about CWIT and the awards please visit British Council India website: http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-scholarships-cwit.htm Please apply (if eligible) or recommend candidates who meet the eligibility criteria. For further enquiries please contact Sanjay Sarkar at British Council, L&T Chambers, First Floor, 16 Camac Street, Kolkata -700017 Telephone: +91-33- 40074309 E-mail: sanjay.sarkar@in.britishcouncil.org The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are a registered charity; 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). We build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people worldwide. _________________________________________________________________________

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Grace Morley Research Fellowship for ICOM 2010 awarded by ICOM India Trust (This is a regular fellowship offered every three years - the next shall be in 2013) The fellowships commemorate Dr. Grace McCann Morley (1900-1985), a founder member of ICOM, the founder director of ICOM Agency and Editor of MUSEUM who nurtured museum movement in the Asia Pacific region during 1960-85, came to India in 1960 as the Director of National Museum which was then coming up at Delhi. She retired in 1966 and became the founder Director of ICOM Asia Agency located in Delhi. She was inspiration personified to all museum leaders not only in India but in the continent of Asia. She adopted India as her country and breathed her last in 1984-85. --Secretary ICOM India Trust   Dr. Grace McCann Morley (1900-1985)

Grace Morley Research Fellowships for 2010: The fellowships are awarded this year to attend the ICOM Triennial Conference 2010, to be held in November 2010 in Shanghai, China. Three applicants have been awarded from India and one more may be awarded from the wait-listed candidates, depending on the Auditors Report on the fund status, to be available very soon. The awardees are 1. Mr. B.V. Kharbade, Mysore; 2. Dr. Supriyo Chanda, Kolkata and 3) Ms. Rongsenla Marsosang, Dimapur, Nagaland. Three (3) applicants have been awarded from out side India - from the Asia-Pacific Region.

For details on this fellowship please contact: Dr Saroj Ghose, ICOM India Trust, Kolkata Phone (91 33) 2413 7561, (91) 9830778979, e-mail: sarojghose@yahoo.co.uk Postal Address: 4A Suryadeep Apt, 112G Salimpur Road, Kolkata 700 031, India