Funding

Through the generous support of University of Glasgow alumni, the Organising Committee are delighted to able to offer funding through the renewed H. H. Mooney Memorial Travel Award.

This award was first offered to presenters at the Sixth Postgraduate Conference in Conflict Archaeology (PGCA) in 2019. It enabled five students and early career researchers to attend the conference and present an academic research paper.

For Fields of Conflict XIII, the H. H. Mooney Award offers grants of £200 towards travel and accomodation expenses associated with attending the conference to present a paper. The award is principally aimed toward students and recent graduates with an interest in the material and experiential remains of human conflict.

Thanks to the kind generosity of the Mooney Family, the Organising Committee are also able to offer grants from a discetionary fund that is open to all speakers at the conference. The Committee is particularly interested in supporting speakers from marginalised communities, or others who may face challenges related to travel, such as individuals from outside the Global North.

Flt. Sgt. H. H. Mooney (1913 – 1943)

Hugh Harvey Mooney was a native of Glasgow and graduate of St. Aloysius’s College. In 1939 he enrolled at the University of Glasgow to study French and Latin. However, his studies were cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War. During the conflict, he served as a navigator in an Avro Lancaster Bombers with No. 467 Squadron RAAF. He was killed in action on June 29th, 1943 when his Lancaster was shot down over the town of Roermond, Netherlands.

The H. H. Mooney Memorial Travel Award has two distinct funding streams:

Student Support Award:

  • This fund is open to matriculated undergraduate or postgraduate students of a recognised institution for higher education.
  • The fund is also available to recent graduates from a recognised institution, who have graduated at any time in the last two years (since 2024).

Discretionary Support Award:

  • This fund is open to all speakers, to be awarded at the discretion of the Organising Committee.
  • Preference will be given to applicants from marginalised communities, or who may face challenges related to long-distance travel, such as those travelling from outside the Global North.

Apply for the Travel Award here: Fields of Conflict XIII – H. H. Mooney Memorial Travel Award Form