The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of its Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships for 2024-25. The Fellowships, now in their second year, support historians to introduce new approaches to their teaching, or undertake a defined study of an aspect of history teaching in UK Higher Education.
The Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships are named after Dame Jinty Nelson FBA (1942-2024), who served as President of the Society between 2000 and 2004. A leading historian of early medieval Europe, Jinty was also, for four decades, a superb teacher and supervisor at King’s College London.
Our thanks also to the Scouloudi Foundation for its support of this year’s Fellowships.
RHS Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellows in the academic year 2024-25:
- Katie Carpenter (University of Leeds) for ‘Brick By Brick: A History Co-Creation Project’
- David Clayton (York) for ‘Piloting the Responsible and Effective Use of AI in Undergraduate History Teaching’
- Matthew Hefferan (Nottingham) for ‘Using formative assessment activities to support undergraduate transition into history degrees’
- Linsey Hunter (Highlands & Islands) for a ‘Short pilot study to explore best teaching practice of student-led co-design of undergraduate history modules at the University of the Highlands and Islands’
- Sundeep Lidher (King’s College London) for ‘Archives against the Grain’
- Lydia Plath (Warwick) for her project ‘Enabling students to feel “Emboldened and Enthralled”: Co-creating learning resources for digital databases’
- Lowri Rees (Bangor) for ‘Innovative Approaches in Teaching Welsh History’
- Elaine Sisson (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin) for ‘Archives and Public Engagement’
The Society will provide updates on each of these projects as they come to fruition in the academic year 2024-25. The call for the Fellowships, 2024-25 will be made next year. Updates from Fellowships held in 2023-24 are available here.
For more on the Society’s Research Funding programme and current open calls, please see here.
HEADER IMAGE: iStock Credit: natrot