American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation Scholarship, 2012-2013

Readers in the US may be interested to know of this funding opportunity:

In partnership with JTG, the American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation is offering a partial scholarship of $2,500 for the 2012-2013 academic year for students enrolled or planning to enroll in a degree program in scientific and technical translation or in interpreter training.

Eligibility

1. Applicants must be graduate or undergraduate students enrolled or planning to enroll in a program leading to a degree in scientific and technical translation or in interpretation at an accredited U.S. college or university.
   
2. Applicants must be full-time students who have completed at least one year of college or university studies.
   
3. Generally, an applicant should present a minimum GPA of 3.00 overall and a 3.50 in translation- and interpretation-related courses.
   
4. Applicants should have at least one year of study remaining in their program; however, in certain circumstances, one residual semester may be accepted.
   
5. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. 

The application deadline is 8 June 2012. More information on the scholarship can be found at the AFTI's website. Details of other awards offered by the AFTI can also be found here.

Funding for postgraduate translation study and research, Leicester

Forwarded kindly by a colleague, and may be of interest to readers of this blog:


Postgraduate scholarships/ fee waivers for PhDs and MAs in Translation and MA in Film and Film Cultures (for entry October 2012) at the University of Leicester.

The DEADLINE for applications is 31 March 2012.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/modern-languages

http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/translation-studies

http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/film

MA and postdoctoral funding in the UK - *now with added PhD funding!*

Recently seen:

For students hoping to take an MA in translation next year, there is an MA scholarship available from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the MSc in Scientific, Technical and Medical Translation with Translation Technology at Imperial College London. Applicants must hold an offer of a place already, but it seems that there may still be time to apply for a place and the AHRC scholarship.

UPDATE, 2 June: There are also AHRC-funded PhD places at the University of Newcastle in translation and interpreting studies. Applications are especially welcome in the following areas of:

• Translating literature, especially poetry
• History of translation
• Interpreting
• Psycholinguistics of interpreting and translating
• Translation and culture; translation and ethics/ideology/power
• Translation products, processes and strategies
• Translator and interpreter training and assessment; reflective/autonomous learning

Supervision is available for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Quechua and Spanish (good to see some real language diversity). For details about the department visit http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/research/overview/tis/index.htm. Deadline: 27 June 2011.

For post-doctoral scholars, applications for postdoctoral bursaries of 3-9 months are also invited by the University of Edinburgh for candidates whose work falls within the scope of one of the Institute for Advanced Studies' current Research Themes and/or across disciplinary boundaries in the Humanities. Translation is included. The bursaries are tenable in the period 1 September 2011-31 August 2012. Awards will be up to a maximum of £10,000. Applicants must have been awarded a doctorate, normally within the last three years, and should not have held a permanent position at a university, or a previous Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Those who have held temporary and/or short term appointments are eligible to apply.

The charming image of the doorknocker (in Portsmouth, no less!) is (c) J.L. Settle on flickr, with many thanks.