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PG Funding Opportunities for Current Students

Please ensure you read the PG Newsletter regularly for updates on funding opportunities including conference grants and part-time work. If you would like to receive the PG Newsletter but do not currently receive it, please contact the PG History Office.

Humanities Research Centre Funding Opportunities

The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) oversees several types of research funding at both postgraduate and postdoctoral levels. Please note that HRC funding is only available to staff and students of the University of Warwick.

All applicants are invited to identify how their proposed research activity fits into the University Spotlight themes - Warwick's Interdisciplinary Research SpotlightsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, if appropriate, and to consider applying to the new funding stream, Interdisciplinary Research Development Funding Call 2024-2025Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window for matched funding.

The HRC provides four main streams of funding:

Doctoral Fellowship Competition

Support for Warwick Conferences

Visiting Speakers' Fund

Warwick PhD and Early Career Research Fellowships 

Humanities Research Fund 2024/25

The Humanities Research Fund Committee will award support for activities taking place between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025 (all claim forms must be submitted to your department by 12 July 2025 to ensure that all expenditure is processed by 31 July 2025). No expenditure will be permitted against HRF codes after 31 July 2025.

The funding round deadlines for HRF 2024/25 are as follows:

Round 1: Monday 3 June 2024

Round 2: Monday 14 October 2024

Round 3: Monday 3 February 2025

As funding capacity is limited, the HRF cannot support all applications and applicants are expected to apply for departmental and external sources of funding in the first instance wherever possible.

Applications will only be accepted from members of the Faculty of Arts and members of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts.

The Humanities Research Fund Committee can award support for the following PG Research (MA by Research and MPhil/PhD) Student activities:

  1. Conference Travel
  2. Publication funding

For full details of deadlines, eligibility and application information, visit the Humanities Research Fund web page: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/ris/researchstrategy/researchfunding/rdf/hrfLink opens in a new window

Postgraduate Essay Prizes

Essay prizes are also advertised in the weekly PG Newsletter.

The Kineton Hundred

Each year, funds permitting, the Kineton and District Local History Group offers a bursary of up to £100 to help meet costs (travel, photocopying, microfilming) incurred by a postgraduate student working in one of the local record offices on the history of Kineton or one of its neighbouring parishes.

If you think you might be eligible please contact Professor Mark Knights.

Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society has a number of grants available for early career historians. For further details of the awards and grants available, please visit their grants page Fellowships & Grants | RHS (royalhistsoc.org) 

Gad Heuman Travel Bursary for postgraduate students

Awards for 2025 will open for application in Spring 2025.

The Gad Heuman Travel Bursary provides support for substantive research and fieldwork in the Caribbean by Warwick postgraduate students. The Bursary is named after Gad Heuman, who was a long-standing Professor of Caribbean History and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University and is now an Emeritus Professor. The funding can be used to cover expenses such as travel to and subsistence in the Caribbean, and other costs incurred directly in relation to a research project.

For full details and eligibility please see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/travelbursary/Link opens in a new window

Dr. Joan Lane Memorial Bursary - CURRENTLY CLOSED

For History MA and PhD students

This bursary honours the memory of Dr. Joan Lane, who taught for many years in the Warwick History Department. Dr. Lane joined the Warwick History Department in 1979, having completed her PhD under the supervision of Dorothy Thompson. She was a dedicated teacher and scholar known for her work on the social history of medicine and also local history, although her interests extended considerably wider. At the time of her death in 2001, she was working on a study of English actresses. She left a deep impression on her many students, one of whom has funded this bursary. It is awarded annually and provides up to £150 to cover the research expenses of any research student working in English social or local history.

The application form may be found here.

Deadline: TBC

Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary - CURRENTLY CLOSED

For History MA and PhD students

The Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary is designed to commemorate the work of Professor Callum MacDonald of Warwick University, who died in January 1997 at the age of forty nine, and to help further historical scholarship. In 1975 Callum MacDonald was appointed as Lecturer in American History at Warwick, where he was to teach and research for the next two decades. Callum was an inspiring and dedicated teacher. His research covered a vast geographical field, from the United States and Latin America to Europe and Asia, and was characterised by a mastery of sources, the careful blending of narrative and analysis, and an openness in dealing with sometimes controversial issues. His contribution to scholarship is a reminder of why we train historians, and why we study the past.

The Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary is intended to support postgraduate students in their research. It may be used either to fund a specific research project or to cover the costs of presenting a paper at a conference. Students may apply for up to £500 by completing the online application form.

Deadline: TBC