This week’s episode is with Lauren Gawne who does fieldwork in Nepal working with speakers of Yolmo and Syuba. Lauren has experience as both a successful grant applicant and as a grant committee assessor. In this episode, she shares her advice for navigating applying for funding in an overly-competitive and under-resourced environment. One of the essential points Lauren makes is that struggling to find funding doesn’t necessarily reflect on the quality of your work or your project, or your commitment to the community you’re working with. In this episode, Lauren shares how she has funded her work and her advice to researchers looking to apply for fieldwork funding. Also, read the instructions.
Things mentioned in this episode:
- Lauren’s website
- Lingthusiasm: a podcast enthusiastic about linguistics, hosted by Lauren Gawne & Gretchen McCulloch
- Lauren’s blog: Superlinguo
- Short films by Chouette Films from Lauren’s Syuba video recordings: Bees & Earthquakes.
- Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
- Firebird Foundation
- The Awesome Foundation
- The Linguist List
- A Guide to the Syuba (Kagate) Language Documentation Corpus (Language Documentation & Conservation)
List of Funding Opportunities (from listeners):
- Institutional Funding (e.g. department funds)
- Government Institutions
- crowd-funding
- ELDP
- Firebird Foundation
- The Explorers Club
- American Philosophical Society (Lewis and Clark)
- NSF-DEL
- Tinker Field Research Grants (for students)
- Endangered Language Fund (ELF)
- Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL)
- Jacobs Research Fund (North & South America)
- Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- Other funding resources curated by Stanford: https://linguistics.stanford.edu/research/linguistic-fieldwork/resources-linguistic-fieldwork/funding-sources
