Until 2009, the RIBA Education Department administered two trust funds in the area of architectural research: the Modern Architecture and Town Planning Trust|, and the Historical Research Trust|. In 2009 these two funds were merged in order to create the RIBA Research Trust Awards.
Research funding is offered as follows:
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Up to 4 awards not exceeding £5,000 each
The primary objective of the awards scheme is to help graduates at the beginning of their career further understand the role of research. It is hoped that a number of recipients will go on to be accomplished researchers in the architectural field.
The awards scheme is open to applicants interested in a wide range of subject matter relevant to the advancement of architecture, and the arts and sciences connected therewith, in the United Kingdom. Applications from outside the United Kingdom may be submitted; however, the research work must in the main be undertaken within the United Kingdom. The supervisor must be domiciled in the United Kingdom.
For more information please email: alex.nelia@inst.riba.org| or write to:
RIBA Research Trust Awards
Royal Institute of British Architects
Education Department
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
There is also more information in the application form:
The 2009 RIBA Research Trust Awards is now closed. Deatils of the 2010 scheme will be announced in 2010.
Recipients of RIBA Research Trust Awards 2009
Dr Matthew Barac |- 'Slow Topography: Informal Urban Order in an Age of Global Change'
Mr Joseph Bedford| - 'Real Building or Media Object? Stirling and Gowan's Leicester Engineering Building'
Miss Emily Greeves - 'Neylan & Ungless'
Dr Tanis Hinchcliffe |- 'An Architectural History of Gentrification in London, 1965-1975'
Recipients of RIBA Historical Research Trust Awards 2008
Dr Alan Calder| - 'William Flockhart 1853-1913: Architect to the Nouveaux Riches'
Mr Max Gane| - 'Breuer in Bristol'
Recipients of RIBA Modern Architecture and Town Planning Awards 2008
Dr Pedro Alonso| - 'Social and Industrial Culture of Soviet Large- concrete Panel Factories in Chile and Cuba: KPD and the Politics of Prefabrication, 1970- 1980'
Professor Mark Swenarton| - 'The Housing Programme of the London Borough of Camden under Sydney Cook 1965-73'
Dr Nicholas Warner| - 'Somers Clarke (1841-1926) and the Revival of Mudbrick Architecture in Egypt'
Prior to 2009, the RIBA Education Department administered three funding streams within the field of architectural research:
The Modern Architecture and Town Planning Trust|
The Historical Research Trust|
The L K E Ozolins Studentship
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The primary aim of all three funds was to assist architectural researchers gain both the skills and knowledge to make confident applications to the larger research bodies, government agencies and other private trusts.
Some other useful links for research include:
Higher Education and Research Opportunities (HERO) |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) |
Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) |
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) |
Rethinking Construction |
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) |