The Society provides the following dedicated funding programmes for Mid- and Later-Career Historians who are members of the Royal Historical Society. These programmes run at least once, annually, and are typically available to researcher who are more than 5 years on from completing a PhD.
Follow the link for further details, including timetables for applications.
1. Open Research Support Grants
Open Research Support Grants are available to all historians (who are members of the Royal Historical Society) who are not postgraduate students or early career researchers (within 5 years of completing a PhD). They enable researchers to undertake activities such as visiting archives and historical sites or conducting interviews. Open Research Support Grants may also be used to support travel to academic conferences.
Open Research Support Grants are intended to support historians (working within and beyond Higher Education) who do not have access to any funding streams, or whose access to funding is insufficient to undertake crucial elements of their research. Open to all members of the Royal Historical Society who are more than 5 years on from completion of their PhD.
2. Funded Book Workshops
Funded Book Workshops provide funding for historians currently writing a second or third monograph. The grant supports an in-person day event, with up to six specialist readers, to discuss a near complete monograph manuscript prior to submission to a publisher
3. Other RHS funding programmes open to Mid- and Later Career Historians of the Society
In addition to the dedicated grants listed above, current Mid- and Later Career Historians of the Society may also apply for the following RHS funding programmes. For details of each of these awards, and the dates of their next call, please see the pages below.
- David Berry Fellowship, to undertake work relating to the history of Scotland or the Scottish people worldwide
- International Research Support Grants, for members of the Society working outside the UK to undertake research in the UK and Ireland
- Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, to facilitate innovative and creative teaching practice
- RHS / Social History Archive Partnership, providing free access to the online resource The Social History Archive to researchers without existing access via an institution
- Scouloudi Panel Grants, enabling historians to host conference panels
- Scouloudi Public History Grants, to support projects between academic historians and those working outside higher education
- Workshop Grants, enabling historians to come together to discuss projects in detail
All enquiries about Research Funding should be sent to the Society’s Membership and Programmes Manager at: [email protected].
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