Category: Research Grant
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Research Grant 2017 Awarded
Ryan Bodman, photo by Claire Eastham-Farrelly Auckland researcher Ryan Bodman has been awarded the 2017 Friends of the Turnbull Library Grant of $15,000 to assist in researching his new project, a social and cultural history of rugby league in New Zealand. Ryan Bodman is an independent researcher, at present a contracted historian to the Waitangi…
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Book launch: Mansfield’s early life and collected poems
Dr Gerri Kimber, who was awarded the 2015 FoTL Research Grant to write a biography of Katherine Mansfield’s early years, has now had her book published by Edinburgh University Press. The New Zealand launch of this book, KATHERINE MANSFIELD: THE EARLY YEARS, and a new book of THE COLLECTED POEMS OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD (edited by Gerri…
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Research Grant 2016 Awarded
Murder History project wins FoTL Grant Christchurch researcher Jarrod Gilbert has been awarded the 2016 Friends of the Turnbull Library Grant of $10,000 to assist in researching his new project, a social history of New Zealand focussing on the crime of murder. Jarrod Gilbert is an independent researcher, a part-time university lecturer in sociology, and…