Editing Press: The Laura Bassi Scholarship 2024

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Opportunity Details

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was founded in 2018 with the intention of offering junior academics and postgraduates who conduct research on understudied subjects in their fields editorial support. Every discipline is eligible for the scholarships, which are given out three times a year in December, April, and August.

Laura Bassi, who was born in Bologna in 1711, was the first woman in Europe to be appointed as a professor and the second to be awarded a PhD. Throughout the majority of her remarkable five-decade academic career, she served as a catalyst for the scientific movement in eighteenth-century Europe. Some of Bassi’s admirers were Frenchwoman Voltaire, who thought that Bassi’s academy was superior to that of London, and German degree recipient Dorothea Erxleben, who was greatly inspired by Bassi’s tenacious fight for women’s equality.

Benefits of Editing Press: The Laura Bassi Scholarship

  • They have allocated $8,000 per grant round, or approximately $24,000 annually, to be distributed, at the discretion of the Scholarship Advisory Board, among any combination of master’s, doctoral, or junior academic applicants.
  • The scholarship’s worth is transferred exclusively through editorial support in the manner described below:
    • Master’s candidates: $750
    • Doctoral candidates: $2,500
    • Junior academics: $500

Note: These numbers represent the top bracket of editing help expenses for doctoral dissertations, academic journal articles, and master’s theses, respectively. Academics engaged in their first five years of full-time employment, as well as those pursuing master’s and doctorate degrees, are eligible to apply. Institutional, departmental, and national limitations do not exist.

Editing Press: The Laura Bassi Scholarship Requirements

Criteria:

  • Academics engaged in their first five years of full-time employment, as well as those pursuing master’s and doctorate degrees, are eligible to apply. Institutional, departmental, and national limitations do not exist.
  • A voluntary USD 10.00 charge is required of applicants in order to help cover the Scholarship’s administrative expenses. The application site offers a fee waiver option for all applicants who are unable to pay the application cost.

Application Date and Process

To apply follow the below steps:

  • Complete the Application Form along with your CV.
  • $10 Application Fee.
  • Responses to frequently asked queries regarding the application
  • They ask that you refrain from sending them your application materials by email, as this could violate their impartiality policies and render your application void. Please use the same email address as your original submission to upload your documents again if you would want to change your application materials. After that, your dossier will update itself. Additionally, please be aware that your application materials must be supplied as a single file, not individually

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