Case Studies
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

Grant Report: Bawa Yawan Rockshelter Excavations
by Dr. Saman Heydari-Guran, University of Cambridge
Report to BIPS on the Project: “Egypto-Achaemenid quadrilingual stone vessels as factors in the socio-economic role of Egypt as a satrapy: the Louvre & Cabinet des Medailles fragments.”
by Dr Ian Shaw and Dr Elizabeth Bloxam
Persian Dynamos: Literature in Motion
by James White

A Note Persian Miniature Painting: Materials and Techniques
by Anahita Alavi

BIPS Travel Grant Report
by Maria Rabbani

Symposium Report: Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East
by Moujan Matin and Alain George
Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East
by Moujan Matin and Alain George Wolfson College, University of Oxford

The Parthian Coin Project Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum (SNP) Volume 2 Coins of Mithradates (Mihrdad) II
by Elizabeth J Pendleton

Hofmann – Grant Report
by William Hofmann (SOAS)
BCLT Summer School 2018 Report: International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School
by Cecelia Rossi

Echlin Grant Report (2018)
by Jillian Echlin
British Library, Ms. Or. 11519: The earliest collection of Khwājū Kirmānī’s poetry
by Shiva Mihan