Grant Reports
Below is a selection of our recent research and travel grant recipients’ reports on their BIPS-funded fieldwork, workshops, conferences etc. All award-holders are required to submit a report, and some are invited to present their research at the annual Spring Roundtable (which is held March – May every year).
A full list of awards made in each financial year are available in our Annual Review.
![Rural life in a changing world: new light on economic development and inequality in Central Asia under the Kushan Empire](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Nikolaou_img-3-400x284.jpg)
Rural life in a changing world: new light on economic development and inequality in Central Asia under the Kushan Empire
![The Hasanlu Ivories viewed through a New Materialist lens](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Boyd-Picture-1-400x284.jpg)
The Hasanlu Ivories viewed through a New Materialist lens
![International Medieval Congress: Roman and Sasanian Networks and Entanglements](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMC-2023-400x284.jpg)
International Medieval Congress: Roman and Sasanian Networks and Entanglements
![Textual History of the Shāhnāma in Fourteenth-Century Shiraz](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/photo_2023-03-28_23-52-32-400x284.jpg)
Textual History of the Shāhnāma in Fourteenth-Century Shiraz
![Documenting the disappearing archaeological heritage of Seeb (Muscat, Oman)](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Fig-1-Assemblage-400x284.jpg)
Documenting the disappearing archaeological heritage of Seeb (Muscat, Oman)
![The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Picture2-e1677765380310-400x284.png)
The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East
![Persianate legacies in post-Soviet Central Asia and on contemporary Iran-Uzbekistan relations](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mirza_Ulughbek_Statue-400x284.jpg)
Persianate legacies in post-Soviet Central Asia and on contemporary Iran-Uzbekistan relations
![A critical edition of Shahin-I Shirazi’s Judeo-Persian masnavi Ardashir Nameh (1333)](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ms-Or-Quart.-1680-F147v1024-1-400x284.jpg)
A critical edition of Shahin-I Shirazi’s Judeo-Persian masnavi Ardashir Nameh (1333)
![Bahram Chobin’s Revolt: An Asset and Ally of East Rome in the Late Sixth Century?](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The_Battle_between_Bahram_Chubina_and_Sava_Shah_LACMA_M.2009.44.1_3_of_9-400x284.jpg)
Bahram Chobin’s Revolt: An Asset and Ally of East Rome in the Late Sixth Century?
![Armenian or Safavid? A Reconsideration of the Architecture and Decoration of Vank Cathedral, Isfahan 1664/1074](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Picture1-400x284.jpg)
Armenian or Safavid? A Reconsideration of the Architecture and Decoration of Vank Cathedral, Isfahan 1664/1074
![Visiting the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Assemi-grant-report.png)
Visiting the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah
![Congress Report: International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 5th – 9th July 2021](https://www.bips.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IMC-image-300px.png)