MSDS Marine are pleased to continue be able to offer two annual grant awards for maritime archaeology in the UK.
Maritime archaeology in England and Wales is underpinned by Licensees and their teams volunteering their time and enthusiasm to help ensure the wreck sites are enjoyed, researched and protected. Licensees and their teams have played a huge role in the careers of all MSDS Marine staff. They have inspired us, taught us and helped us develop our skills and to recognise this we would like to give something back. To recognise this our first grant supports Licensees and their teams.
The second award MSDS Marine award is to help support maritime archaeology students in the UK. The growing MSDS Marine team includes a number of early yearsโ professionals who have all recently completed university courses. Their recent experience highlights the significant costs faced by students to complete their education. We strongly believe fieldwork and other training experiences help create professionals with a more rounded skill set and are keen to help allow students to maximise the experiences that they get. To this end we offer many volunteer opportunities for students but we are now also keen to help support them financially to gain experiences which might otherwise be unaffordable.
This year we are trying to reflect 50 years of protected wrecks a bit more. For the student award we are really keen to hear from students who would use the grant to help support something related to protected wrecks. It could be through volunteering, research or supporting Licensees in another way!
In addition to the two main grant awards we would like to help celebrate fifty years of protected wreck by working with groups to create new leaflets for protected wreck sites in England. If you think the site you work on, or a group of sites regionally, will benefit from a new leaflet we would love to hear from you! The design work for the leaflet will be done by Alison at MSDS Marine in the Historic England style and we will work with teams and Historic England to select the best images and agree text before getting the leaflets printed and sending them out to teams to use and distribute locally.
More information about all the awards is on the MSDS Marine website here:ย
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