THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA — grant history

Registered charity 313940 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income

£966k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£113k

Accounts grants total

£39k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

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Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
Environment/conservation/heritage (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
UCLA	FY2025	£35k	Larger Project Expenditure - Lost Villages of the Upper Euphrates
International Writing Workshops 2024	FY2025	£29k	Larger Project Expenditure - Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture and Society
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£10k	Research Grants (SRI-based) - The beginnings of sedentism, cultivation and corporate institutions
BIAA	FY2025	£10k	Research Grants (SRI-based) - The Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project
University of Oxford	FY2025	£10k	Research Grants (SRI-based) - Housing and urban living at Aphrodisias in Caria
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£5k	Research Grants (SRI-based) - Telmessos Survey 2024
University of Oxford	FY2025	£5k	Research Grants (SRI-based) - Agricultural origins in the ‘greater Fertile Crescent’
University of Sheffield	FY2025	£3k	Research Grants (SRI-based) - Past environments in the transition to agriculture
University of Kent	FY2025	£1k	Travel Scholarships - David French Scholarship
Northumbria University	FY2025	£1k	Travel Scholarships - Doughty Wylie Scholarships
University of Liverpool	FY2025	£1k	Travel Scholarships - Doughty Wylie Scholarships
University of St Andrews	FY2025	£976	Travel Scholarships - David Edwin Jameson Scholarship
University College London	FY2025	£885	Travel Scholarships - David French Scholarship
Ilia State University	FY2025	£500	Travel Scholarships - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund
Izmir Bakırçay University	FY2025	£500	Travel Scholarships - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund
Bogazici University	FY2025	£500	Travel Scholarships - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund
Independent Scholar	FY2025	£500	Travel Scholarships - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund
British Academy	FY2024	£72k	British Academy Mid Career Fellowship (Dr Işılay Gürsu): The project ‘Public Understanding of Archaeology in Turkey (PUNAT)’, proposes to publish and disseminate the results of a longterm BIAA research initiative that aimed at understanding the multi-layered relationship between archaeology and society in Türkiye, a country with a rich heritage but with many challenges regarding its safeguarding.
FCDO British Embassy International Programme Fund	FY2024	£60k	Rainwater Harvesting for Climate Change Adaptation: This BIAA-led project took place in collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU) and Boğazici University Istanbul between 18/10/2023 and 29/02/2024. It aimed at developing and delivering an experience-based training programme to equip municipalities in Türkiye with the knowledge, resources and capacities to implement sustainable rainwater harvesting.
University of Oxford	FY2024	£10k	Smith - The Tetrapylon Street at Aphrodisias
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£10k	Baird - Boncuklu; the first farmers of central Anatolia
Emergency Cultural Research Grants Protection scheme Fund, administered by the British Council	FY2024	£8k	Emergency Cultural Research Grants Protection scheme: The grant was awarded to the BIAA for the purposes of supporting short-time research facilitation grants for academics affected the February 2023 earthquakes in Turkey
City, University of London	FY2024	£6k	Aran and Ktlay - Turkey’s quest for strategic autonomy: Drivers, goals, and the regional responses
University of Durham	FY2024	£5k	Brizzi - From Townscape to Landscape. Focus transformation of a late antique-early Byzantine residential area
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£5k	Baird - Transitions to sedentism: From Epipalaeolithic to earliest Holocene in central Anatolia (Pınarbașı)
University of Sheffield	FY2024	£5k	Ayala - Past environments in the transition to agriculture: sampling at Taş Tepeler, SE Anatolia
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£5k	Greaves - Alpha 3
University of Exeter	FY2024	£4k	Imagining Futures Phase 2 II: Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts’ (IF), an AHRC / GCRF Network+ project funded by UKRI and led by the University of Exeter. The project, in collaboration with BILNAS (British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, a sister British International Research Institute) focused on widening access to archives by focusing on the concept of ‘creators’ - people who collect, create and interpret archival material – as ways to connect documents and information hosted in different institutions (Total grant of £12,000, of which £4,382 for 2023-24).
University of Exeter	FY2024	£4k	Imagining Futures Mobility Funding: BIAA scholars received mobility funding from IF to visit Liverpool University, Exeter University and Kew Gardens related to the ongoing research on the botanical collections at the BIAA.
Sheffield University	FY2024	£2k	Longford - Agriculture in the Highlands: Kura-Araxes and Bedeni periods at Rabati
Newcastle University	FY2024	£2k	Kezer - Geopolitics on the Ground: State-Making and Resource Extraction in the Upper Euphrates
Institute for Historical Studies	FY2024	£2k	Zlatanov - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund: To explore and analyze the role of the British Consular network in the Ottoman Balkans during the Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878.
Babeș-Bolyai University	FY2024	£2k	Cristea - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund: Migration of communities from Anatolia to Roman Dacia, together with their gods.
Cankiri Karatekin University	FY2024	£2k	Demirbilek - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund: Comparative research into green budgeting in the UK and Turkey as a Visiting Researcher at University of Exeter.
Boğaziçi University	FY2024	£2k	Badur - Turkish and Black Sea Scholars' Fund: Transforming PhD into a book manuscript on the biography of Mehmed Cavid (1876-1926).
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£1k	Kabukcu - Early cultivation and palaeoenvironment in the western-central Anatolian farming frontier: archaeobotanical research at Neolithic Ekşi Höyük.
University of Oxford	FY2024	£1k	Krause - David French Scholarship: MPhil dissertation research visiting libraries in Ankara and Istanbul. Title of Mphil “Spatial Emotions and Changing Statehoods. Yemen in Late Ottoman and (Early) Republican Turkish Self-Narratives.”
University of Oxford	FY2024	£988	Downs - David Edwin Jameson Scholarship: Telmessos Survey Project: Investigating the reliefs and Greek and Lycian inscriptions on the hundreds of funerary monuments of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Telmessos (Fethiye).
University of Oxford	FY2024	£815	Teber - Doughty Wylie Scholarship: Project on the Ottoman Kizilbash (Alevis)-Bektashis. Research trip to examine a collection of seal matrices and amulets of the shrine of Hacı Bektaş (near modern-day Kırşehir, Turkey).
University College London	FY2024	£581	Britton - Doughty Wylie Scholarship: Participation in the Uşaklı Höyük archaeological project.
University of Liverpool	FY2024	£400	Callister - David French Scholarship: To contribute to the Telmessos Survey Project
BIAA	FY2023	£115k	Knowledge Frontiers - Water in Istanbul: rising to the challenge?
Archives Portal Europe Foundation	FY2023	£17k	Digitisation of the Tille Höyük Photographic Collection and creation of additional metadata for ingestion in Archives Portal Europe and Europeana
University of Oxford	FY2023	£10k	Smith - The Tetrapylon Street at Aphrodisias
University of Liverpool	FY2023	£10k	Baird - Boncuklu; the first farmers of central Anatolia
BIAA	FY2023	£10k	Imagining Futures - Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
BIAA	FY2023	£8k	Vandeput - Water in Istanbul: Rising to the Challenge?
BIAA	FY2023	£6k	Herbarium - Herbarium Remount and Digitisation Project
Stanford	FY2023	£6k	Hodder - Gobeklitepe-Karahantepe excavations
University of Liverpool	FY2023	£5k	Georgiadou - Plant Survey and Ecological Report on Feriköy International Protestant Cemetery, Istanbul
BIAA	FY2023	£4k	Feriköy Project - The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative
University of Oxford	FY2023	£4k	Bachhuber - Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project
University of Liverpool	FY2023	£4k	Greaves - Active Learning Protects Heritage and Archaeology (ALPHA 2)
University of Liverpool	FY2023	£4k	Greaves - Telmessos Survey
BIAA	FY2023	£3k	Peker - Local efforts for climate change adaptation with limited resources: the Case of Kadıköy, Istanbul
University of Cambridge	FY2023	£3k	Guzel - Migration and Medicine: Bridging the Gap between Patients and Migrant Doctors
BIAA	FY2023	£3k	David French Scholarship Total
UCL	FY2023	£2k	NAHREIN - Virtual visiting scholar programme
İzmir Bakırçay University	FY2023	£2k	Said Kardas - To present research on Rome-Sasanian rivalry at the International Medieval Congress
BIAA	FY2023	£2k	MacArthur-Seal - Documentation of sites of religious syncretism in Istanbul
BIAA	FY2023	£2k	SARAA - Safeguarding and Rescuing Archaeological Assets
University of Oxford	FY2023	£1k	Solovyev - Research trip to conduct archival and primary research in Istanbul and Izmir for doctoral dissertation ‘the visual representations of the British railways constructed in Western Anatolia in the mid-nineteenth century.’
Manchester University	FY2023	£1k	ElSehamy - To cover ongoing PhD ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul
University of Oxford	FY2023	£1k	WalkerSilvermann - Resentful Hospitality: The role of intergroup contact, perceived threat and social norms in shaping host community attitudes towards Syrian refugees in Izmir, Turkey.
BIAA	FY2023	£985	Doughty-Wylie Scholarship Grant
University of Wales, Trinity St David	FY2023	£500	Lord - A visit to Hellenistic sites in western Turkey that were on the edge of Seleukid rule between 281 and 188 BCE.
University of Plymouth	FY2023	£500	Mart - A comparison of English and Turkish early years/kindergarten teachers’ understandings of and practices in outdoor activities
Independent scholar	FY2023	£500	Karakusheva - Population Politics and Nation Building: Migrations of Turkish and Muslim Populations from Bulgaria to Turkey (1925–1939)
Erzurum Technical University	FY2023	£500	Özsoy

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