THE BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF IRAQ (GERTRUDE BELL MEMORIAL) — grant history
Latest income
£424k
Grants listed (FY2025)
39
Listed grants total
£213k
Accounts grants total
£282k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- Deadlines: Outreach Grants have deadlines on 1 April and 1 October. Research and Conference Grants, Pilot Project Grants, and the Visiting Iraqi Scholarship Scheme have an annual deadline of 1 April.
- What they don’t fund: Grants cannot be used to support institutional overheads, salary costs, PhD studentships, or other normal living costs.
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Visiting Scholar Grants | FY2025 | £43k | Visiting Scholar |
| Tina Greenfield | FY2025 | £34k | The Sebittu Project |
| Ella Egberts | FY2025 | £10k | The Palaeolithic of the Iraqi Western Desert Survey Project |
| Sophie Mills | FY2025 | £10k | Thrice Buried, The Individuals from the Fourth Well in the NW Palace of Ashurnasirpal, Nimrud |
| Prof. Ahmed Al-Imarah | FY2025 | £9k | Visiting Scholar |
| Hayder Al Shakeri | FY2025 | £7k | The Role of Arts and other Creative Mediums in Shaping Political Discourse in Contemporary Iraq |
| Alaa AlKaabi | FY2025 | £7k | Visiting Scholar |
| Dr Bzhar Othman Ahmed | FY2025 | £7k | Visiting Scholar |
| Claudia Glatz | FY2025 | £6k | Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology |
| Zainab Mahdi | FY2025 | £6k | Nurturing Climate Consciousness and Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: The Role of Social Media Influencers in Reviving Traditional Knowledge and Fostering Sustainable Practices in Iraqi Communities |
| Claudia Glatz | FY2025 | £6k | Social Difference and Inequality at the Late Chalcolithic Site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan Region of Iraq |
| Dr Ammar Merza | FY2025 | £6k | Visiting Scholar |
| Isadora Gotts | FY2025 | £5k | Producing Post-War Mosul: The Role of Material Reconstruction in Emerging Local Order |
| Marianna Charountaki | FY2025 | £5k | Foreign Oil Interests and the Iraqi State since 2003 |
| Mustafa Yahya Faraj | FY2025 | £5k | Visiting Scholar |
| Alesia Koush | FY2025 | £5k | Human Rights Implications of Illicit Trafficking in Archaeological Heritage: The Case Study of Iraq |
| Giulia Ragazzon | FY2025 | £4k | At the Foot of the Zagros: Exploring Neolithic Mobility in Iraqi Kurdistan |
| Dr Abdulkareem Yaseen Ahmed | FY2025 | £4k | Visiting Scholar |
| Robert Gleave | FY2025 | £4k | Law and Learning in Early Modern Karbala; from al-Wahid al-Bihbahani (d.1791) to Ibrahim al-Qazwini (d.1848) |
| Dr Hamed Hyab Samir | FY2025 | £3k | Visiting Scholar |
| Ms Nawar Ihsan Abdulazeez | FY2025 | £3k | Visiting Scholar |
| John MacGinnis | FY2025 | £3k | Nimrud Archaeological Project |
| Sarah Edgcumbe | FY2025 | £3k | Between Conflict, Marginalisation, and 'Peace' |
| Qantara | FY2025 | £2k | Basrah Museum grant |
| Eleni Asouti | FY2025 | £2k | The Last Hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Fertile Crescent |
| Karina Atudosie | FY2025 | £2k | Annual Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology - Change and Continuity in the Ancient Near East |
| Dr Alaa Fadhil al-Ameri | FY2025 | £2k | Visiting Scholar |
| Gustavo Pedroso | FY2025 | £2k | 11th Annual Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology |
| Atieh Tavasoli | FY2025 | £2k | Divine Encounters: Exploring the Materiality of Shia Shrines in Iraq |
| Dr Karzan Omar Ali | FY2025 | £1k | Visiting Scholar |
| Dalia Al-Dujaili | FY2025 | £1k | HIKMA Iraq |
| Steve Renette | FY2025 | £950 | Kani Shaie at the Sulaymaniyah Museum |
| Talah Anderson | FY2025 | £700 | Remaking the Past, 44th Annual Conference of the 19th C Studies Association |
| Ahmed Talib Abdulhussein al-Abdalrasol | FY2025 | £660 | Visiting Scholar |
| Dr Mary Shepperson | FY2025 | £500 | Building Partnerships in Iraq: Documenting the endangered historic house of Najaf |
| Lara Bampfield | FY2025 | £500 | ASOR 2023 |
| Mabast A. Muhammad Amin | FY2025 | £475 | Visiting Scholar |
| Dr Richardson | FY2025 | £468 | Festschrifft Contribution |
| Glynnis Maynard | FY2025 | £307 | 2024 ASOR Conference |
| Dilshad Oumar Abdul Aziz | FY2024 | £25k | Visiting Scholar |
| Dr Salah Fulayfel Ayyedi | FY2024 | £7k | Visiting Scholar |
| Dr Abdulkareem Yaseen Ahmed | FY2024 | £6k | Visiting Scholar |
| Gustavo Pedroso (University of Oxford) | FY2024 | £6k | 11th Annual Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology |
| Eleni Asouti (University of Liverpool) | FY2024 | £6k | The Last Hunter-gatherers of the Eastern Fertile Crescent |
| Isadora Gotts (King’s College London) | FY2024 | £5k | Producing Post-War Mosul: The Role of Material Reconstruction in Emerging Local Order |
| John MacGinnis (British Museum) | FY2024 | £5k | Nimrud Archaeological Project |
| Ms Nawar Ihsan Abdulazeez | FY2024 | £5k | Visiting Scholar |
| Ella Egberts (University of Leicester) | FY2024 | £5k | The Palaeolithic of the Iraqi Western Desert Survey Project |
| Dr Hamed Hyab Samir | FY2024 | £4k | Visiting Scholar |
| Dahab Aglan | FY2024 | £4k | Integration of Displaced Population in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq |
| Taif Alkhudary | FY2024 | £4k | Gendered Networks of Power: The Parliamentary Quota and Women’s Substantive Political Representation in Iraq |
| Sarah Edgcumbe (University of St Andrews) | FY2024 | £4k | Between Conflict, Marginalisation, and ‘Peace’: A Comparative Analysis of Experiences of Conflict, Perceptions of Peace, and Everyday Resistance in Social Positionality among Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and Iraq |
| Robert Gleave (University of Exeter) | FY2024 | £4k | Law and Learning in Early Modern Karbala; from al-Wahid al-Bihbahani (d. 1791) to Ibrahim al-Qazwini (d. 1848) |
| Talah Anderson | FY2024 | £3k | Remaking the Past, 44th Annual Conference of the 19th C Studies Association |
| Tina Greenfield (University of Cambridge) | FY2024 | £2k | The Sebittu Project |
| Claudia Glatz (University of Glasgow) | FY2024 | £2k | Annual Conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology |
| Shazad Jaseem | FY2024 | £2k | Visiting Scholar |
| Lara Bampfield | FY2024 | £1k | ASOR 2023 |
| Mabast A. Muhammad Amin | FY2024 | £475 | Visiting Scholar |
| Benjamin Caspi | FY2024 | £468 | ASOR 2023 |
| Dr Dhiaa Kareem Ali Janaby | FY2024 | £413 | Visiting Scholar |
| Taif Alkhudary (LSE Middle East Centre) | FY2023 | £8k | Gendered Networks of Power: The Parliamentary Quota and Women’s Substantive Political Representation in Iraq |
| Shazad Jaseem | FY2023 | £7k | Visiting Iraqi Scholarship |
| Dahab Aglan (Royal Holloway University) | FY2023 | £6k | Integration of Displaced Population in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq |
| Dhiaa Kareem Ali Janaby | FY2023 | £5k | Visiting Iraqi Scholarship |
| Eva Miller (University College London) | FY2023 | £4k | Whose Heritage? Living with the Legacies of Imperialism, Colonialism, and Nationalism in the Middle East |
| Andrew Petersen (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) | FY2023 | £4k | Dokan Ottoman Fort: Architectural Survey and Excavation Project |
| Michelle de Gruchy (University of Durham) | FY2023 | £4k | Reconstructing Ancient Traffic Patterns in Iraq from Archaeological Evidence |
| Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth) | FY2023 | £4k | Ruptured Domesticity: A Visual Narrative of Domestic Responses to War in Iraq |
| Monica Palmero Fernandez (University of Glasgow) | FY2023 | £4k | Investigating Practices of Academic Research in the Fields of Archaeology and Heritage in Iraq since 2003 |
| Neil Fleming (University of Worcester) | FY2023 | £4k | The Church of England and Iraq’s Assyrian Minority, c. 1920-1939 |
| Nicholas Postgate | FY2023 | £4k | Continuation of Fieldwork at Abu Salabik |
| Diana Stein (Birkbeck University) | FY2023 | £4k | MITTANI: An Enigmatic Empire |
| Dilshad Oumar Abdul Aziz | FY2023 | £4k | Visiting Iraqi Scholarship |
| Mabast A. Muhammad Amin | FY2023 | £3k | Visiting Iraqi Scholarship |
| Joseph Barber (University of Oxford) | FY2023 | £2k | The Ninth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology |
| Lara Bampfield | FY2023 | £500 | University and Museum Engagement Grant |
| Benjamin Caspi | FY2023 | £500 | University and Museum Engagement Grant |
| Liam Devlin | FY2023 | £500 | University and Museum Engagement Grant |
| Caroline Sandes and Jaafar Jotheri | FY2022 | £6k | Pilot Project Grants |
| Liam Devlin | FY2022 | £4k | University and Museum Engagement Grants |
| Dr Laith Hussein | FY2022 | £1k | Visiting Scholar Grants |
| Dr Ali Naji Attiyah | FY2022 | £676 | Visiting Scholar Grants |
| Ms Rand Abdul Jabbar | FY2022 | £500 | University and Museum Engagement Grants |
| Dr Jon Taylor | FY2022 | £499 | University and Museum Engagement Grants |