Filming, conferencing, and the annual EWAP Advisory Board meeting!

What a month! This June the Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP) team have been busy. 

We started the month with a great day videoing content for our training videos for our grantees. All our grantees receive guidance on how to administer their grant, including what we expect in terms of ethics and documentation. 

EWAP’s programme manager, Kelly Reed, headed over to the Czech Republic in mid-June for the International Work Group for Paleoethnobotany (IWGP) conference. The conference brings together hundreds of scholars from across the world who investigate past human and plant interactions. This includes how plants were collected, processed, and utilised as building materials. Kelly, who is an archaeobotanists herself, presented a poster on the Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP) and how we are creating an open access record of plant-based building traditions from around the world.

EWAP's Aylin Orbasli and Marcel Vellinga
 and some of the Advisory Board members in Oxford

 At the end of June, we had the annual EWAP Advisory Board meeting. The hybrid event is key in determining who receives an EWAP grant. Each proposal had two external reviewers whose reviews were then examined by the expert Advisory Board panel. Our Advisory Board members include Prof Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu), Prof Michael Feener, Dr Mikel Landa, Elizabeth Lee, Prof Trevor H.J. Marchand, Prof Rawiwan Oranratmanee, Dr Marcia Sant'Anna and Dr Jorge Tomasi. Along with Prof Marcel Vellinga and Prof Aylin Orbasli they discussed and ranked projects to determine who should receive funding. This year eight small grants were selected along with six large grants. More details on who was awarded a grant will follow in September.

If you are interested in applying for either a small or large grant, the 2022-2023 grant round will open on 14^th September 2022 for expressions of interest. More information can be found here – EWAP Grant Information