About the IHR doctoral fellowships
Two categories of IHR doctoral fellowship are available each year:
- The Royal Historical Society funds up to two fellowships per year, the Centenary Fellowship and the Marshall Fellowship, the latter thanks to the generosity of Professor P. J. Marshall, former President of the RHS. Both are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation
- The Scouloudi Foundation offers the equivalent of up to seven half-year fellowships, which are all open to UK citizens or to candidates with a degree from a British university
Area of research
History
Amount awarded
£15,726 - full year; £7,863 - half year
What we offer
Fellows will be offered the mentorship of the IHR’s Director and other staff across the School of Advanced Study. This will include help in planning the future, through: career advice; assistance with applications for jobs, postdocs and fellowships; mock interviews; and guidance with publication plans and research grant applications. Augmenting our close connections across academia, the IHR’s extensive partnerships will be open to those Fellows who are interested in working in sectors outside of the academy. Fellows will have the support of our Fellowships Officer throughout the fellowship. At the IHR they will have access to our world-renowned Wohl Library, extended electronic resources, and our extensive seminar and events programme.
Our Fellows’ seminar programme provides an opportunity for each Fellow to present their research in a collegial atmosphere, before their peers, senior historians, and others. Fellows have free access to the IHR’s research training courses, and are offered a number of exclusive, tailored training workshops.
Doctoral Fellows also have access to the IHR’s Power and Postan Fund, which provides £500+ per year to Fellows for travel to conferences or for research, or to host workshops and conferences. Fellows will also be given administrative support to host such events.
Eligibility requirements
The Fellowships are intended as writing-up awards for those who can make a clear argument about the need for additional time beyond the three years of doctoral study (or equivalent in the case of part-time or international students with longer programmes of study). They will be awarded to doctoral students who are engaged in the completion of a doctorate in history (broadly defined) and who will have completed at least three years of full-time or four years of part-time research on their doctoral programme (and not more than four years’ full-time or six years’ part-time) at the beginning of the academic year in which the awards will be held. Adjustments to these timings will be made for international degrees, which may be longer in duration. Fellowships will be tenable for six months or one year. Applicants must make a clear case for why they require the additional time, particularly if they are requesting a full year rather than six months.
These awards cannot be held in conjunction with any other substantial maintenance grant.
At the discretion of the Director of the Institute, Fellows may engage in teaching or other paid work for up to six hours per week.
If you have a query about your eligibility to apply for this, please contact the Fellowships Officer at ihr.fellowships@sas.ac.uk
For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://www.history.ac.uk/join-ihr/fellowships/junior-fellowships/ihr-doctoral