

{"id":34917,"date":"2023-01-12T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?page_id=34917"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:44:48","slug":"open-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/open-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Research Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34985 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1510\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15.png 1510w, https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15-1024x377.png 1024w, https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15-200x74.png 200w, https:\/\/files.royalhistsoc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/13162549\/Screenshot-2023-01-13-at-16.25.15-624x230.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1510px) 100vw, 1510px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Society provides the following funding programmes for all historians who are members of the Royal Historical Society. This programme runs annually. Follow the link for further details, including timetables for applications.<\/p>\n<p>Mid- and later-career historians are also eligible to apply for the following annual programmes run by the Society:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/grants\/workshop-grants\/\"> <strong>RHS Workshop Grants<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2023: providing funds for discrete day projects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/jinty-nelson-teaching-fellowships-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2023: supporting innovative teaching in history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/publications\/funded-book-workshops\/\"><strong>Funded Book Workshops<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2023: for authors of a second or third monograoh in progress.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/david-berry-fellowship-in-the-history-of-scotland-and-the-scottish-people\/\"><strong>David Berry Fellowships in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2024: funding research in Scottish history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/rhs-scouloudi-public-history-grants\/\"><strong>Scouloudi Public History Grants<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2025: funding collaborative work between historians in and outside higher education.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/scouloudi-panel-grants\/\"><strong>Scouloudi Panel Grants<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2025: supporting the creation of speaker panels for academic conferences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/international-research-support-grants\/\"><strong>International Research Support Grants<\/strong><\/a>, launched in 2026: funding research in archives in the UK \/ Republic of Ireland by international Fellows and Associate Fellows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you wish to join the Society before making an application, please consult the appropriate membership categories via the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/membership\/\">Join Us<\/a> <\/strong>page.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366\">Open Research Support Grants<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/open-research-funding\/open-research-support-grants\/\"><strong>Open Research Support Grants<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>Open to all members of the Royal Historical Society who are more than 5 years on from completion of their PhD.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>All enquiries about Research Funding should be sent to the Society&#8217;s Membership and Grants Officer at: <a href=\"mailto:membership@royalhistsoc.org\">membership@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>HEADER IMAGE: Society Couples Dancing, Johann Theodor de Bry, c.1580, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Society provides the following funding programmes for all historians who are members of the Royal Historical Society. This programme runs annually. Follow the link for further details, including timetables for applications. Mid- and later-career historians are also eligible to apply for the following annual programmes run by the Society: RHS Workshop Grants, launched <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/open-research-funding\/\">&#8230;Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":0,"parent":35013,"menu_order":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34917"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52217,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34917\/revisions\/52217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}