{"id":43771,"date":"2026-02-02T06:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?p=43771"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:08:03","slug":"current-calls-for-rhs-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/current-calls-for-rhs-research-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes to March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society currently invites applications for the following <strong>three schemes<\/strong> \u2014 open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds \u2014 with closing dates of<strong>\u00a06 March 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For further information on each programme, eligibility and how to apply please follow the links below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next rounds of research funding calls will be announced in February and March 2026. <\/strong>Calls will include for the following four programmes: <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/postgraduate-research-funding\/pgr-research-support-grants\/\">Postgraduate Research Support Grants <\/a>and \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/early-career-research-funding\/early-career-research-support-grants\/\">Early Career Research Support Grants <\/a>(opening in February), <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/rhs-scouloudi-public-history-grants\/\">Scouloudi Public History Grants<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/scouloudi-panel-grants\/\">Scouloudi Panel Grants<\/a> (opening in March).<\/p>\n<p>Applications are invited from current members of the Society. Applications to<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/membership\/\">join the Society<\/a><\/strong>, as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member, are welcome at any time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Current funding programmes with closing dates in March 2026<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/david-berry-fellowship-in-the-history-of-scotland-and-the-scottish-people\/\"><strong>David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People*<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>provides an annual award of <strong>up to \u00a32,500<\/strong> to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. This grant is available to\u00a0members of the Royal Historical Society\u00a0at any career stage.\u00a0<strong>Next closing date: Friday 6 March 2026.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/early-career-research-funding\/early-career-fellowship-scheme\/\"><strong>Early Career Fellowships Grants* <\/strong><\/a>provide funding of <strong>up to \u00a32000<\/strong> to historians to undertake discrete research projects lasting no more than six months. Applicants must be early career historians who are not in permanent full-time academic positions and within five years of submitting their PhD in a historical subject. These grants are available to members of the Royal Historical Society. <strong>Next closing date: Friday 6 March 2026.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/research_funding\/open-research-funding\/open-research-support-grants\/\"><strong>Open Research Support <\/strong><strong>Grants* <\/strong><\/a>provide funding of either <strong>\u00a3500 or \u00a31000<\/strong> to historians to undertake historical research. Activities include visiting archives and historical sites, and travel to academic conferences. Open Research Support Grants may also be used to support travel to academic conferences. These grants are available to members of the Royal Historical Society who are not postgraduate students or early career researchers (within 5 years of completing a PhD). <strong>Next closing date: Friday 6 March 2026.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>*Applicants for these Royal Historical Society grants must be current members of the Society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Becoming a member of the Society<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>If you wish to join the Society, as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member please <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/membership\/\">see here for details<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/guide-for-members\/\">benefits of RHS membership<\/a>. Applications are welcome at any time.<\/p>\n<p>The next closing dates for receipt of applications are <strong>Mondays 9 March 2025<\/strong> and <strong>11<\/strong> <strong>May 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Details of current holders of Royal Historical Society Fellowships and Grants are <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/about\/current-fellows-and-grant-holders\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All enquiries about Research Funding should be sent to the Society\u2019s Membership and Programmes Manager at: <a href=\"mailto:membership@royalhistsoc.org\">membership@royalhistsoc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HEADER IMAGE: Coffee cup (part of a service). Worcester factory, British, ca. 1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/205453\">public domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes \u2014 open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds \u2014 with closing dates of\u00a06 March 2026. For further information on each programme, eligibility and how to apply please follow the links below. The next rounds of research funding calls will be announced <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/current-calls-for-rhs-research-funding\/\">&#8230;Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":50844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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":""},"categories":[1,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=43771"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50848,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43771\/revisions\/50848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}