The Paul and Yolanda Courtney Congress Bursary Award (formerly The Paul Courtney Student Travel Award) is an annual award that enables students to participate in the Society’s Post-Medieval Archaeology Congress. It is awarded in honour of our late Membership Secretary and joint Editor of Post-Medieval Archaeology, Paul Courtney and Yolanda Courtney, scholar of post-Medieval Archaeology.
We make this annual award to enable attendance at the Society’s annual Congress on post-Medieval archaeology. Each award proposal will be subject to a maximum of £250, and the total fund available in a single application round is £250. We may split the award between two applicants.
Council will prioritise applications from the following, self-defined, groups:
- first time attendees
- students
- those on low-income
- BAME and minority applicants.
Applicants can be located in any part of the world. Council will not favour presentation over attendance. There is no restriction on age. Applicants need not be members of the Society. The award can be spent on registration, travel, accommodation costs, or childcare costs. Payments will be made to applicants before the Congress.
Awardees are required to write a short report on their experience at the Congress for the Society website and newsletter, within three months of the Congress.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 January of each year.
How to apply
Make your application to the Paul and Yolanda Courtney Congress Bursary Award by completing the form linked below (Word document). You must outline why attendance would be useful, any expected outcomes from attendance, and a breakdown of expected costs. Email the completed form to the Society’s Prize Co-ordinator at prizes@spma.org.uk. Successful applicants will be informed by 15 February.
Paul’s obituary and publications list were published in Post-medieval Archaeology volume 48. Sadly Paul’s wife, Yolanda, a noted archaeologist in her own right, has also passed away. You can read her obituary.