Grants Programme

The British Korean Society has at times funds available for small grants to organisations or individuals for activities or projects in sympathy with our members’ and sponsors’ aims of fostering friendship between the UK and Korea.

 

The closing date for applications for the next round of BKS grants is 1st March 2024.

As we receive many more applications for grants than our limited budget can support, we are unable to consider individual applications outside our normal time frame. Applicants should be aware that decisions on the next round of applications will not be finalised until the end of September 2023.

 

The Society wishes to encourage:

  • Those who make positive contributions to British and Korean societies.
  • Applications for specific identifiable purposes where our funding will make a real difference.
  • Applications which will lead to lasting contacts, friendships, activities involving both countries, and those involving young people.

The scope of the applications is unrestricted in subject matter and grants in aid of exhibitions or performances, publications, travel, sport, charitable activities, commemorations and other similarly constructive activities will all be considered. Applicants should state clearly how they intend to use BKS funding if awarded, and the results sought. It should also be made clear whether our funds will be sufficient to achieve the project aims, or whether further funding is being sought from elsewhere.

Please note that the maximum sum available for any single grant application is £1000.

The grants programme now incorporates the previously separate bursary awards for post-graduate students. We continue to welcome applications from such students when they have a specific project which will enhance the effectiveness of their study programme and also meet the objectives of the overall grant scheme. Grants will not be awarded simply to meet the regular costs of study or living, but we are happy to consider proposals to support field work and other similar projects.

Recipients of grants are asked to complete a short report after completion of their project, showing how the BKS funds contributed to the outcomes. The required report format may be downloaded here.


Application Guidelines and Online Application Form


Recent grant awards and some projects we have supported in the past are featured below.

Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

Philip Dobison is  Assistant Head Teacher at Cranford Community College near Hounslow.  The college has a partner school in Pohang, ROK, and is organising a student exchange with them, which will allow British students aged 16-18, who are learning Korean as part of an extended […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

Dr Marc Vendrell, Principal Investigator at the University of Edinburgh, is organising a meeting there which will bring together specialists from the UK and South Korea in the field of chemical biology and molecular mapping.   It is planned that potential areas for collaborative work will […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

Fabio Lattanzi Antinori is a London-based artist who has had a number of solo exhibitions.   He has been offered the opportunity to be artist in residence at the Seoul Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art from April – June 2018 where he will prepare a […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th May 2018

2018: Charlotte Burrows is a PhD student of architecture at the University of Cambridge.   She will use the BKS grant to travel to Korea to study the techniques of masters of the textile craft pojagi to assess how it might be reinterpreted in the UK.  […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Hoon Song I was born in Seoul, South Korea and spent my school years in Busan. I entered Yonsei University in Seoul and studied Theology, which became my academic ground for a theological approach toward the unification of Korea. After my undergraduate school, I decided […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Mary Briggs Mary Briggs is currently pursuing an MA in Korean studies with a focus on Korean literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her research interests centre on religiosity, particularly Christianity, modernity, and postmodernity in South Korea. Her dissertation […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Sangwon Shin I am a PhD student at the department of the languages and cultures of Japan and Korea at SOAS, University of London. I have pursued BA in History and Archaeology back at Inje University in Korea, and continued MA in History at SOAS. […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 27th June 2017

Milyung Son I am currently a PhD candidate in Urban Studies and Planning at University of Sheffield. I achieved MA in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Sheffield Hallam University. The subject of MA dissertation was “Evidence of social impacts by the UK inaugural City […]

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th January 2015

2014: Support for accommodation costs of 14 student presenters at annual conference.

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Posted by: Cathy Kim  |  Posted on: 9th January 2015

2014: Assistance towards costs of studies in Korea.

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