by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE
In this post, Dr Eilish Gregory, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Royal Historical Society and an early career researcher, offers an account of her own personal experience of studying her PhD as a self-funded student. While there were many scholarly and personal...
by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE
There are many funding opportunities for history researchers to apply for in the UK and internationally, including research and travel grants, and library fellowships. Funding grants and fellowship opportunities are advertised across the year, although some have...
by royalhistsoc | 16 Nov 2020 | Guest Posts
On 12 October, during BBC’s UK-wide #MuseumPassion week, Gairloch Museum was announced as a winner of the highly prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020. Recognition of the success of an eight-year £2.4M project was a huge accolade for a small, volunteer-run,...
by royalhistsoc | 07 May 2020 | RHS Work
The Royal Historical Society (RHS) has today launched an emergency funding scheme for postgraduate and early career historians, the second of two initiatives from the RHS in response to the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Margot Finn introduces the...
by royalhistsoc | 07 May 2020 | RHS Work
Each year, the Royal Historical Society aims to support around 200 UK-based early career researchers (of any nationality) with grant awards totalling just over £60,000. COVID-19 is having a major impact on the scholars we would normally fund. Here, RHS President...