Pilot projects
Principal investigator: Mr Hans Berger
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Archive of Buddhist photographs in Luang Prabang, Laos
Location of archival material: Laos
Award: £13,475
Duration: 10 months
Principal investigator: Professor Anuradha Chanda
Host institution: Jadavpur University, India
Title of project: Archiving texts in the Sylhet Nagri script
Location of archival material: India
Award: £10,000
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Mr Oscar Grandio Moraguez
Host institution: York University, Canada
Title of project: Pilot project to identify endangered African diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba
Location of archival material: Cuba
Award: £10,953
Duration: 11 months
Principal investigator: Dr Chima Korieh
Host institution: Rowan University
Title of project: Rescuing Eastern Nigerian history: preserving the holdings of Enugu and Calabar regional archives
Location of archival material: Nigeria
Award: £16,012
Duration: 3 months
Principal investigator: Professor Rezo Khutsishvili
Host institution: Department of State Archives and Records Management of Georgia
Title of project: Digitising the photo documents of Georgia's central state audio-visual archive
Location of archival material: Georgia
Award: £1,640
Duration: 3 months
Principal investigator: Mr Christopher Miller
Host institution: Arizona State University Libraries
Title of project: A pilot project aimed at the preservation of Pa'O religious and literary manuscripts
Location of archival material: Myanmar
Award: £9,683
Duration: 2 months
Principal investigator: Mr Samuel Njovana
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Locating, listing and protecting the archives of Independent (or African Instituted) Churches in Zimbabwe
Location of archival material: Zimbabwe
Award: £10,660
Duration: 4 months
Principal investigator: Dr Irina Podgorny
Host institution: Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina
Title of project: 'Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue pilot project of Native peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina
Location of archival material: Argentina
Award: £9,700
Duration: 9 months
Principal investigator: Dr Mohammed Salau
Host institution: York University, Canada
Title of project: Northern Nigeria: precolonial documents preservation scheme
Location of archival material: Nigeria
Award: £10,191
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Mr David Small
Host institution: University of Bristol
Title of project: A survey of the endangered court records of Nevis, West Indies
Location of archival material: Saint Kitts and Nevis
Award: £5,446
Duration: 1 month
Major research projects
Principal investigator: Mr Amiq Ahyad
Host institution: LPAM, Indonesia
Title of project: The MIPES Indonesia: digitising Islamic manuscripts of Indonesian Pondok Pesantren
Location of archival material: Indonesia
Award: £41,373
Duration: 9 months
Principal investigator: Dr Tjeerd de Graaf
Host institution: Isaac Massa Foundation, the Netherlands
Title of project: Reconstruction of sound materials of endangered languages in the Russian Federation for sound archives in St Petersburg
Location of archival material: Russian Federation
Award: £50,119
Duration: 24 months
Principal investigator: Mr Kanak Mani Dixit
Host institution: Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal
Title of project: Preservation of historic and rare Nepali monographs and periodicals
Location of archival material: Nepal
Award: £49,832
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Professor Adam Jones
Host institution: Leipzig University
Title of project: Collecting and preserving the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania in Moshi, Tanzania
Location of archival material: Tanzania
Award: £27,500
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Mrs Jane Lewisohn
Host institution: SOAS, University of London
Title of project: The Golha radio programmes (Flowers of Persian Song and Poetry)
Location of archival material: Iran
Award: £59,913
Duration: 14 months
Principal investigator: Mr Richard Overy
Host institution: Australian National University
Title of project: Tuvalu National Archives major project
Location of archival material: Pacific Islands of Tuvalu
Award: £29,130
Duration: 21 months
Principal investigator: Dr Ivana Perkovic Radak
Host institution: University of Arts, Belgrade
Title of project: Voiceless choirs. Serbian musical collections from Zemun in 19th and early 20th centuries
Location of archival material: Serbia and Montenegro
Award: £10,810
Duration: 6 months
Principal investigator: Dr Karma Phuntsho
Host institution: Aris Trust Centre for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Oxford University
Title of project: The digital documentation of manuscripts at Drametse and Ogyen Choling
Location of archival material: Bhutan
Award: £45,930
Duration: 10 months
Principal investigator: Professor Rachko Popov
Host institution: Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Title of project: Endangered ethnographic archive, Sofia, Bulgaria
Location of archival material: Bulgaria
Award: £15,086
Duration: 5 months
Principal investigator: Dr Alexis Tengan
Host institution: Independent Researcher
Title of project: Ritual narratives of Bagr Secret Society: Audio, video and digital preservation of ancient myths from the Dagara of northern Ghana
Location of archival material: Ghana
Award: £2,950
Duration: 2 months
Principal investigator: Dr Jian Xu
Host institution: Sun Yat-sen University
Title of project: Preservation and digitisation of Yi archives in public and private collections in Yunnan, China
Location of archival material: China
Award: £41,100
Duration: 12 months
Principal investigator: Dr David Zeitlyn
Host institution: University of Kent
Title of project: Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio
Location of archival material: Cameroon
Award: £36,838
Duration: 15 months
