The Analysis Trust

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About the Analysis Trust
Analysis conference grants
Analysis Studentship

About the Analysis Trust

The Analysis Trust (UK registered charity no. 325126) is the society of the long-established philosophy journal Analysis, including Analysis Reviews.

The Trust is governed by the Analysis Committee, which is responsible for appointing and advising the editors, for the general policy of the journals, and for overseeing the Trust’s charitable activities. The chair of the Committee is Jenny Saul (Sheffield/Waterloo), and the other members are:

Corine Besson (Sussex), Dorothea Debus (York), Alison Hills (Oxford), Jules Holroyd (Sheffield), Richard Holton (Cambridge), Guy Kahane (Oxford), Rosanna Keefe (Sheffield), Anna Mahtani (LSE), Michela Massimi (Edinburgh), Harold W Noonan (Nottingham), Richard Pettigrew (Bristol), Nick Shackel (Cardiff), Jussi Suikkanen (Birmingham), Jonathan Way (Southampton), Ralph Wedgwood (Birmingham/USC), J Robert G Williams (Leeds), Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Fiona Woollard (Southampton), Robin Zheng (Glasgow).

The Secretary is Ben Colburn (Glasgow), to whom enquiries about the activities of the Trust can be directed. Enquiries about the journal should be sent directly to the editorial office.

The Analysis Trust is committed to implementing and maintaining the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme for learned societies and journal editors. Further details of the Scheme can be found here.

Analysis conference grants

The Analysis Committee oversees a scheme to support philosophy conferences held in the United Kingdom.

The Committee has been especially concerned to help postgraduate students and under-employed recent postgraduates by subsidizing their attendance at selected conferences. The current policy is to make grants to allow organisers to run bursary schemes to support this end. Bursaries should cover up to 50% of the cost of conference fees, accommodation, and subsistence (but not travel) for attendees who fall within the above categories and are not based at the host institution. The Trust is seeking to subsidise attendance rather than help organizers to pay the costs of speakers, so it prefers applications that do not ask for funding just for speakers.

Grant applications will be assessed 3 times a year by a subcommittee, with deadlines of 15 October, 15 January and 15 April. The subcommittee typically awards no more than £500 to any one conference, and does not give retrospective grants. Grants are evaluated based on how well they meet the following criteria:

• The conference should be philosophical, and analytic in spirit.
• The conference must be open (i.e. not organized by invitation only, or restricted to members of particular institutions, and it should be advertised widely).
• The application must be for a bursary scheme of the kind described above, and not e.g. to cover general running costs.
• The conference must represent good value for money, and applicants should seek to minimize costs of attendance for the underfunded.
• Applicants should consider issues of diversity when putting together lists of speakers. We encourage them to be guided by the BPA/SWIP Good Practice for Conferences and Seminar Series and the BPA Guidelines for Accessible Conferences. 
• Applicants should also seek to minimize the environmental impact of their conferences. We encourage them to be guided by the BPA Environment/Travel Guideline Scheme.

Applications for grants should be made by downloading and completing this form, and returning it via email to the Secretary of the Analysis Committee, Professor Ben Colburn (analysistrust.secretary@oup.com). Grants for successful applications will be paid after the event, by cheque, upon receipt of a conference report including accounts and an assessment of how well the bursary scheme met its aims.

The Analysis Trust will also consider applications for funds to contribute to accessibility costs for conference attendees. Applications under this initiative should be made directly to the secretary. 

Analysis Studentship 2025-26

Deadline for applications: Friday 25 April 2025
 

The Analysis Trust proposes to award a studentship to support a promising philosopher who does not have other means of support (e.g. a doctoral stipend, or employment as a lecturer or research fellow), and to enable them to conduct their own programme of research. The award is worth £20,780 for the academic year 2025-26. It is solely for maintenance and support of research, and not institutional overheads, and cannot be held concurrently with other full-time academic employment.

Candidates for the studentship should, at the time of taking up the award, should have completed at least three and no more than five years of full-time research (including doctoral research), or the part-time equivalent. Candidates may make a case for circumstances that exempt them from these eligibility criteria. They should propose to spend the year pursuing research at a university in the UK. This may, but need not, be the university where they have conducted their doctoral studies. The research should be on a subject which falls under the concerns of the journal Analysis, for example (but not exclusively) metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, logic, philosophy of science, and the history of philosophy. It is envisaged that the successful candidate will have recently completed a Ph.D. or be very close to completion.

An application for the studentship should be made by email to Professor Ben Colburn (analysis.studentship@gmail.com), Secretary to the Analysis Committee. It should consist of a CV, a statement of proposed research of not more than 500 words, and an official letter offering facilities in the department in which the candidate proposes to hold the studentship (this should include access to computers, the library and research seminars in the department). Applicants should also ensure that two references are sent to Professor Colburn (at the address above) by the deadline for applications.

Short-listed candidates will be invited to submit some written work of up to 8,000 words in late May. The Secretary will communicate the results of the competition in late June.