The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is named in memory of the eminent British historian Professor Lisa Jardine CBE FRS. The scheme encourages early career researchers to expand their interests in history of science and related interdisciplinary studies by travelling in order to use archival resources, to build relationships with the Royal Society and other institutions and to access training and networking opportunities for career development. Grants are intended to encourage the free movement of researchers across disciplines and countries, to stimulate academics studying intellectual history to consider science in their research and encourage scientists to look back at the origins and historical data related to their discipline. The scheme provides funding for research subsistence (up to £2,000 per month for a maximum of 3 months) for living expenses and domestic travel while attending the Royal Society collections and other nearby scholarly collections, and/or international travel (up to £2,000) for short exploratory research trips or event attendance. Special consideration is given to topics that were of interest to Professor Jardine, notably in 17th century studies.