Call for Applications: Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2024-25

17 July 2024

 

Applications for the Society’s Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, for the academic year 2024-25, are now invited from Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society.

In 2024 the Society looks to award up to seven Fellowships of sums of £500, £750 and £1,250 to be held over the academic year, 2024-25. The Society is very grateful to the Scouloudi Foundation for its support of this programme in 2024-25 which has enabled additional Fellowships to be made available.

Fellowships are intended to help historians introduce new approaches to their teaching, or to undertake a defined study of an aspect of history teaching in UK Higher Education.

The closing date for applications for Fellowships 2024-25 is Monday 2 September 2024. Further details on eligibility for the programme and how to submit an application is available here.

Launched in 2023, the Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships support History teaching in UK Higher Education. The Fellowships are named after Dame Jinty Nelson FBA, President of the Royal Historical Society between 2001 and 2005.

Fellowships support historians in Higher Education who wish to introduce new approaches and initiatives to their teaching—and for which funding, at one of three levels (£500, £1,000 and £1,250 per award), is required to make this possible. Fellowships may also support those seeking to undertake a short study of an aspect of History teaching in UK Higher Education: for example, within a department or more widely.

Recipients are expected to undertake their project within the academic year of the award, with the Fellowship lasting for the duration of the project or period of study.

Here you can read more about selected projects from the first cohort of Teaching Fellows, 2023-24.

This year’s Fellows explored, among other topics, relationships between contemporary politics and historical study, and the resources and practices required for this; the value of interdisciplinary and collaborative teaching; and the contribution of History teaching for students’ wellbeing.

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