How to fill in the UCCL application form
Before completing the application form, it is important that you read this page, and the UCCL Homepage.
The application form may be downloaded from this website. When filling it in please note the following points:
- It is important to give the full information requested, especially details of your financial position.
- Information on any financial support sought, offered, or obtained, from other sources is required.
- Any previous support by UCCL to the applicant must be included.
- Evidence of academic support for the visit is essential. References from the host institutions or conference organisers, are required. Sufficient information must be given for the committee to judge the academic merits of the proposed visits.
- If visits in China are involved, the identity of those to be visited, their relevance to the project and appointment should be detailed where possible.
Deadlines
Applications and supporting papers should be submitted by the first day of March, June, September and November annually. Only in exceptional circumstances will a grant be considered at any other time. The committee sits during the months shown and applicants are informed of the outcome immediately afterwards.
Signatures
No signatures are required on the UCCL application form. However, letters from referees must be signed.
Submission methods
Once you have completed the form you may email or post it to the contact details below.
You may, if you wish, complete the form in pen. Please write clearly in black ink. The form will be photocopied.
Technical instructions
The UCCL application form was created in basic HTML and therefore is not an interactive form. In order to complete it on your computer, you will need to open it in an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver. Or you can convert it into a Word document. To do this:
Method One
- Open the UCCL application form in your web browser
www.gbcc.org.uk/files/documents/UCCL%20Application%20Form.htm; - On the "File" drop-down menu, click on "edit using Microsoft Word";
- The application form should open in Word;
- Edit, save, and close;
- Email it to the address below, as a PDF (preferred), or send as a Word document.
Method Two
- Open the UCCL application form in your web browser
www.gbcc.org.uk/files/documents/UCCL%20Application%20Form.htm; - Perform a straightforward "Save As" to your Desktop - save it in whatever HTML format is the default. You should then be able to see the form on your desktop screen;
- Open Word (or whatever usual word-processing software you use);
- Open the file from the Word "open" function;
- It should open without difficulty in an editable format; it should retain most of its formatting with only minor, non-vital changes;
- Email it to the address below, as a PDF (preferred), or send as a Word document.
If you have difficulties, telephone or email the UCCL Offices uccl@dsl.pipex.com or 01256 861 098; or see end of this page.
Contact details:
The Chairman
Universities' China Committee in London
Swire House, 59 Buckingham Gate
London SW1E 6AJ
fax: 020 7828-6331
email: uccl@dsl.pipex.com
The UCCL web pages are hosted on the website of the Great Britain-China Centre. Only for technical problems with these pages - contact laura.rivkin@gbcc.org.uk.
Last updated 2010.02.24