THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS — grant history
Latest income
£196k
Grants listed (FY2025)
20
Listed grants total
£60k
Accounts grants total
£62k
reconciliation not assessedextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Oxfordshire
What changed: FY2023 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2023 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Mind, Art, Knowledge Symposium | — | £4k |
| new | LUCA, Belgium | — | £4k |
| new | Philosophy Through Film (Philosophy on Film) | — | £4k |
| new | UNED, Spain | — | £4k |
| new | Edinburgh | — | £4k |
| new | Online | — | £4k |
| new | Surrey | — | £4k |
| new | Philosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts | — | £4k |
| not listed | 100 years of Solicitude | £4k | — |
| not listed | Lost in the Game | £4k | — |
| not listed | Music & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference | £4k | — |
| not listed | Art & Entertainment | £4k | — |
| not listed | Wales Aesthetics Forum pilot | £3k | — |
| not listed | Art, Imagination and Morality | £2k | — |
| not listed | Interpersonal Relations Workshop | £1k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mind, Art, Knowledge Symposium | FY2025 | £4k | Mind, Art, Knowledge Symposium |
| LUCA, Belgium | FY2025 | £4k | Mind, Art, Knowledge |
| Philosophy Through Film (Philosophy on Film) | FY2025 | £4k | Philosophy Through Film (Philosophy on Film) |
| UNED, Spain | FY2025 | £4k | Workshop on Artistic Rights: Authorship, Creation and Normativity |
| Edinburgh | FY2025 | £4k | Fourth International Conference of the Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality |
| Online | FY2025 | £4k | Philosophy on Film |
| Surrey | FY2025 | £4k | Philosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts |
| Philosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts | FY2025 | £4k | Philosophy, Access, and the Performing Arts |
| Literary and Philosophical Society | FY2025 | £3k | Aesthetics of Improvisation in Comedy and Music Workshop |
| Pictorial Meaning and the Body in Wollheim's Psychoanalytic Aesthetics | FY2025 | £3k | Pictorial Meaning and the Body in Wollheim's Psychoanalytic Aesthetics |
| St John's College, Oxford | FY2025 | £3k | Pictorial Meaning and the Body in Wollheim's Psychoanalytic Aesthetics |
| Wales Aesthetics Forum | FY2025 | £3k | rolling award |
| Scottish Aesthetics Forum | FY2025 | £3k | rolling award |
| Philosophy in the Wild | FY2025 | £3k | Philosophy in the Wild |
| Durham and Literary and Philosophical Society; Newcastle | FY2025 | £3k | Philosophy in the Wild |
| London Aesthetics Forum | FY2025 | £3k | rolling award |
| Birkbeck | FY2025 | £1k | The 2025 Edgington Lectures and Graduate Workshop |
| Southampton | FY2025 | £1k | Ethics & Aesthetics in Schopenhauer & Wittgenstein Workshop |
| Dublin City University | FY2025 | £1k | Music and Philosophy Study Group |
| Music & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference 2026 | FY2025 | £1k | Music & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference 2026 |
| 100 years of Solicitude | FY2023 | £4k | film |
| Lost in the Game | FY2023 | £4k | conference, Nottingham |
| Music & Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference | FY2023 | £4k | conference, KCL |
| Art & Entertainment | FY2023 | £4k | workshop, Durham/Newcastle |
| Wales Aesthetics Forum pilot | FY2023 | £3k | lecture series, Cardiff |
| Art, Imagination and Morality | FY2023 | £2k | conference, Trinity College Oxford |
| Interpersonal Relations Workshop | FY2023 | £1k | workshop, Birmingham |
| Aesthetics and Political Epistemology conference (Liverpool) organised by Vid Simoniti, Katherine Furman and Robin McKenna | FY2022 | £12k | BSA Connections Conference award |
| BSA Travel Stipends recipients (13 applications) | FY2022 | £6k | Travel stipends for conferences or research visits |
| Kent | FY2022 | £5k | 8th BSA Postgraduate Conference ('Aesthetics & The Body') |
| Time for Beauty, workshop/film | FY2022 | £4k | Small grants scheme |
| Aesthetics & Social Epistemology conference, St Andrews | FY2022 | £4k | Small grants scheme |
| Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) conference, Open/Cambridge | FY2022 | £4k | Small grants scheme |
| Philosophy & Comedy conference, Kent | FY2022 | £4k | Small grants scheme |
| A Conference in Celebration of Peter Lamarque, York | FY2022 | £3k | Small grants scheme |
| Diversity Reading List Blueprints | FY2022 | £2k | Small grants scheme |
| Zoe Walker (University of Cambridge) | FY2022 | £2k | 2022 biennial BSA Essay Prize competition |
| Interpersonal Relations: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Phenomenology, Birmingham | FY2022 | £1k | Small grants scheme |
| Aesthetics of Public Art workshop, KCL | FY2022 | £962 | Small grants scheme |
| Open University | FY2021 | £5k | Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age |
| KCL | FY2021 | £4k | Music & Philosophy Study Group 2021 Conference |
| Goldsmiths | FY2021 | £4k | Art & Aesthetics of Illusion |
| Cambridge | FY2021 | £4k | Aesthetics and Scientific Experiments |
| UAL | FY2021 | £3k | Decolonising the Arts |
| York | FY2021 | £2k | Art & Affect in the Predictive Mind |
Write-backs & cancellations
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aesthetics and the philosophy of gender-based violence | FY2025 | −£3k | Aesthetics and the philosophy of gender-based violence |
| Revaluing the Life Model - Kent | FY2025 | −£2k | Revaluing the Life Model - Kent |
| Wales Aesthetics Forum, Cardiff University | FY2025 | −£935 | Wales Aesthetics Forum, Cardiff University |
| Key Questions in Meta-Aesthetics, Nottingham | FY2025 | −£729 | Key Questions in Meta-Aesthetics, Nottingham |
| The Future of Art | FY2025 | −£634 | The Future of Art |
| Aesthetics and the Management of Heritage | FY2025 | −£501 | Aesthetics and the Management of Heritage |