World Wood Day Foundation Research Grant (WWDF Research Grant) is set up for the purpose of encouraging research studies focused on “wood and culture”. Both ongoing projects and new initiatives are welcome to apply.
Previous Announcements
2024-2025
| Name |
Affiliation |
Project Name |
| Francisco Mamani-Fuentes |
Centro de Estudios Históricos, Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile |
From Spain to the Andes – Transfers, Adaptations, and Innovations of Framing Carpentry in Colonial Colombia (16th and 17th centuries) |
| Élie Pinta |
Arizona State University, USA |
Investigating Norse Greenlandic foodways through interdisciplinary analysis of wooden containers and tableware |
| Jay Thakkar / Mansi Shah |
CEPT University, India |
Relevance and Continuity of Wood in the Kath khuni Architecture in the Mountainous Region of Himachal Pradesh, India |
2024-2025 Call for proposals (LINK)
2023-2024
| Name |
Affiliation |
Project Name |
| Iris Brémaud |
CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Montpellier, France |
TIME FOR CRAFT, CHANGING WOODS: How time shapes artisans' work, how ecological crisis change wood uses in musical instruments making |
| Hans Reschreiter |
Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria |
Wood and Light |
| Helen Smith |
University of York, UK |
The Culture and Craft of Wood Type |
2023-2024 Call for proposals (LINK)
2022-2023
| Name |
Affiliation |
Project Name |
| Liard Aurélie |
Université Côte d'Azur, France |
Burned wood as a cultural marker: archaeological charcoal and early societies of the Great Basin |
| Julia Harrison |
Penland School of Craft, USA |
Sweet Impressions: Carved Wooden Confectionery Molds |
| Enrique Aragón Núñez |
University of Almeria, Spain |
Punta Prima Project (Formentera, Spain) From Trees to Ships: Timber, Cultural Interaction, and Climate in the Early Roman Empire |
2022-2023 Call for proposals (LINK)
2021-2022
| Name |
INSTITUTION |
PROJECT TITLE |
| Francesco Negro |
DISAFA, University of Torino, Italy |
Wood in sport equipment - Heritage, present, perspective |
| Martino Quintavalla |
Acoustics, Materials Engineering, Musical Instruments, Luthierie, Italy |
Neapolitan wood craftsmanship of the 18th century: discovering ancient technologies in lutherie |
2021-2022 Call for proposals (LINK)
2020-2021
| Name |
INSTITUTION |
PROJECT TITLE |
| Michael Grabner |
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria |
Reconstruction of Forest management activities in prehistoric Hallstatt, Austria |
| Juliette Taïeb |
University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France |
Let the wood speak 2: Dendroprovenancing and Strontium analysis of Thule architectural woods in Northwestern Alaska at the beginning of the second millennium AD |
2020-2021 Call for proposals (LINK)
2019-2020
| Name |
INSTITUTION |
PROJECT TITLE |
| Rosalie C. Mendoza |
University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines |
Wood Identification: A Tool For Preservation Of Indigenous Architecture Of Traditional Houses In Ifugao, Philippines |
| Martino Quintavalla |
Acoustics, Materials Engineering, Musical Instruments, Luthierie, Italy |
Choice of wood in musical instruments: Italian Red Spruce and traditional mandolins |
| Juliette Taieb |
University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France |
Let the wood speak: Dendro-Archaeology, Climate and Culture in Northwestern Alaska at the beginning of the second millennium AD |
2019-2020 Call for proposals (LINK)
2018-2019
| Name |
INSTITUTION |
PROJECT TITLE |
| Mauro Ferreira |
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland |
WOOD Science & Technology On Culture (WOODSTOC) |
| Michael Grabner |
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria |
Stockmühle revisited – Reconstruction of a historical watermill grinding machinery |
| Elie Pinta |
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France |
Wood culture in the Norse Greenland Settlements: Circulation and management of wooden materials at the edge of the world |
2018-2019 Call for proposals (LINK)
2017-2018
| Name |
Institution |
Project title |
| Benjamin Gearey |
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland |
The Pallasboy Project: Final Phase |
| Michael Grabner |
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria |
The History of Wood Culture – The Oldest Wooden Goods Around the Globe |
| Ellie Richards |
Penland School of Crafts, USA |
Process, Product, Place: Investigating Wood
Practices Behind the Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins |
2017-2018 Call for proposals (
LINK)
2016-2017
| Name |
Institution |
Project title |
| Benjamin Gearey |
University College Cork |
Investigating Woodworking Skills and Techniques in Irish Prehistory: Phase 2 |
| LIU Guan |
Art & Design School, Beijing Forestry University |
Artistic Studies of Bog-wood in Chinese Cultural Background |
| Kathy Foley (Mary Kathleen) |
University of California Santa Cruz |
Seaching for Golek; Cultural Fusion of Indonesian, Chinese, Indian Elements in Sundanese Wayang Golek |
2016-2017 Call for proposals (
LINK)
2015-2016
| Name |
Institution |
Project title |
| Benjamin Gearey |
University College Cork |
Investigating Woodworking Techniques and Skills in Irish Prehistory: Reconstructing the Pallasboy Vessel. |
| Jason L. Newton |
Syracuse University |
Common Labor, Common Lands: Farmers, Lumberjacks, and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in the 'Wooden World' of the Northern Forest, 1850-1900 |
| Sara Robinson |
Oregon State University |
Discovering the Historical Culture of Spalting in Peru |
2015-2016 Call for proposals (
LINK)
2014-2015
| Name |
Institution |
Project title |
| Mechtild Mertz |
Centre de recherche sur les civilisations d'Asie orientale, Paris |
Wood Identification of Ancient Temple Structures in Ladakh Located in the Western Himalayas |
| Tuula Moilanen |
Aalto University |
CHERRY WOOD - A MIRROR OF JAPANESE LIFE AND CULTURE, Research on the use of mountain cherry and its substitutes in Japanese traditional and contemporary woodblock printmaking and publishing |
| Anila Naeem |
NED University of Engineering and Technology |
Wooden Symphonies of Bygone Times: Perishing Legacy of Traditional Havelis |
| Bernhard Seliger |
Hanns-Seidel-Foundation |
The use of wood in the inner-Korean borderland - energy, traditional life style, and art? The case of Goseong, a County of Wood and Culture |
| Francois Tainturier |
Inya Institute (Research Institute for Myanmar Studies) |
Teak monasteries, Lineage, and Craftsmanship: A Socio-Cultural Survey of Master Carpenters and Wood Carvers in Mandalay, Myanmar |
2014-2015 Call for proposals (
LINK)
Please send inquiries to: researchgrant@worldwoodday.org