{"id":115,"date":"2016-11-04T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-12-21T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T10:08:33","slug":"applications-open-for-the-david-almond-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/applications-open-for-the-david-almond-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications open for the David Almond Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Almond<\/a>\u00a0(above, with Michael Morpurgo).\u00a0Award-winning North East children\u2019s writer. Patron<\/a> of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books<\/a>. Honorary graduate<\/a> of Newcastle University<\/a>. So it seems only fitting that we named our annual fellowships in children\u2019s literature in David\u2019s honour!<\/p>\n

Newcastle University and Seven Stories\u2019 David Almond Fellowships<\/a> aim to promote high-quality research into the\u00a0Seven Stories Collection<\/a>\u00a0by supporting award holders to make a study visit to Newcastle. And there are so many amazing collections that you could research! Take a look at Seven Stories\u2019 informative\u00a0Collections blog<\/a>\u00a0for an insight into some of our holdings.<\/p>\n

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Image: Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. Photography: Damien Wootten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We launched the David Almond Fellowships<\/a> in 2012 to increase national and international access to Seven Stories\u2019\u00a0Collection and build new links with researchers. So far, we\u2019ve awarded 11 Fellowships and over half of our Fellows have come from outside the UK.<\/p>\n

Lucy Stone, one of our 2016 award-holders, says of her David Almond Fellowship:<\/p>\n

“To take up the pen, pencil or paintbrush proffers the chance to make sense of the beautiful, but also perplexing world into which children are born, grow and find their place as an adult. The Judith Kerr Collection contains a myriad of remarkable drawings, paintings and writings child\u00a0Kerr crafted pre- and during her family’s exile from Nazi Germany. Thanks to a David Almond Fellowship, I had the wonderful opportunity this summer to examine Kerr’s juvenilia, now part of my doctoral research involving consulting archives across Europe and the US to determine what writing and drawing can offer refugee children. Everyone at Seven Stories and the Children’s Literature Unit were incredibly helpful and supportive; the Fellowship proved invaluable.”\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image: Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. Photograph: Damien Wootten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, applications for the 2016\/17 David Almond Fellowships are now open! You have until 1 December 2016 to apply for visits to be taken before the end of August 2017. Have a look at the\u00a0David Almond Fellowship Information 2016-2017<\/a>\u00a0for full details of how to apply, and download the David Almond Fellowship Application<\/a> form.<\/p>\n

We would love to welcome you to Newcastle as a David Almond Fellow \u2013 and you could even research David’s collection…<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about the David Almond Fellowships, visit the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics<\/a><\/strong> website or contact <\/strong>Professor Kim Reynolds<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Almond\u00a0(above, with Michael Morpurgo).\u00a0Award-winning North East children\u2019s writer. Patron of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. Honorary graduate of Newcastle University. So it seems only fitting that we named our annual fellowships in children\u2019s literature in David\u2019s honour! Newcastle University and Seven Stories\u2019 David Almond Fellowships aim to promote high-quality research into … Continue reading “Applications open for the David Almond Fellowships”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6222,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21,20,18],"tags":[16,22,7,11,28],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections","category-opportunity","category-research","category-students","tag-collections","tag-opportunities","tag-research","tag-research-fellowships","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/vitalnorth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}