Junior Fellowships

The Institute of Historical Research administers various Junior Research Fellowships (JRFs) which are detailed below.  JRFs are awarded to doctoral or early career post-doctoral researchers. A list of the recipients of the latest awards is given on the page Junior Research Fellows at the IHR. For prizes and bursaries see our separate page.


How to apply for a Junior Research Fellowship

To apply for a JRF, please create a user account here: http://www.history.ac.uk/online-applications/ and complete the online application form for the relevant competition. Please note that many of these competitions have different opening and closing dates, and that online application forms will only be available for those competitions which are currently active.

Doctoral (postgraduate) JRF competitions

Doctoral or postdoctoral JRF competitions

Postdoctoral only JRF competitions

 

IHR Research Fellowships

The Institute administers up to seven Research Fellowships in History each year for PhD candidates who have already completed at least two years' research on their chosen topic:

The Fellowships funded by the Royal Historical Society are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation.

The Fellowships funded by the Scouloudi Foundation are open to British citizens or to candidates with a first degree from a British university.

The Isobel Thornley Fellowship is open to any candidate registered for their doctoral degree at a University of London college.

The competition is now open. The closing date is 1 March 2012.  Please apply on line here
 

Economic History Society Fellowships

The Economic History Society in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research offers up to five one-year Research Fellowships in Economic/Social History. The Fellowships will be awarded to postdoctoral candidates who have recently completed a doctoral degree in economic/social history (broadly defined)

The Fellowships are open to British citizens or to candidates with a first degree from a British university.

The competition is now open. The closing date is 2 April 2012.  Please apply on line here
 

Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Past & Present Society and the Institute of Historical Research offer up to two one-year postdoctoral JRFs in History tenable at the Institute.

Each Fellowship will be awarded to a graduate who expects to have submitted his/her doctoral thesis in history (broadly defined) by 1 October of the year of the Fellowship. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate a broad interest in processes of social, economic, political and cultural change, as manifested in their particular field of study. The Society wishes to promote work of a kind that might be published in the journal Past & Present and its book series, Past & Present Publications.

Applicants may be of any nationality, and their PhD (or equivalent) may have been awarded in any country.

The competition is now open. The closing date is 2 April 2012.  Please apply on line here
 

The Alan Pearsall Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History

The Alan Pearsall Bequest and the Institute of Historical Research will offer a one-year postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History, tenable at the Institute. The Fellowship stipend will be £22,000 for a full academic year. It will be payable in four quarterly instalments through the Institute.

The competition is now open. The closing date is 2 April 2012. Please apply on line here
 

Jacobite Studies Trust Fellowships (doctoral or postdoctoral)

Funded by the Jacobite Studies Trust, two six-month Fellowships will be awarded each year to enable their holders to undertake historical research into the Stuart dynasty in the British Isles and in exile, from the departure of James II in 1688 to the death of Henry Benedict Stuart in 1807. This may also include work on their friends and supporters, their activities, their influence, their views, ideologies, artefacts and works of art; and the political, diplomatic, military, religious, intellectual, and cultural context in which they lived.

These Fellowships will be open to:

  • current doctoral students who have been registered on their programme for at least three years full-time or six years part-time at the beginning of the session in which the awards are to be held.
  • holders of doctorates awarded within two years of the beginning of the session in which the awards are to be held, who are working in the research area of the Trust, as outlined above.

Applications are encouraged from all suitably qualified candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. The value of the stipend for each six-month fellowship will be £7,500. The Fellowships are non-residential.

The competition is now open. The closing date is 1 March 2012. Please apply on line here
 

IHR Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities

The Institute of Historical Research offers fellowships funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for both pre-dissertation and dissertation research in the humanities using original sources. The purposes of this fellowship programme are to:

  • help doctoral candidates in the humanities who may otherwise not have opportunities or encouragement to work with original source materials in the United Kingdom;
  • help doctoral candidates in the humanities to deepen their ability to develop knowledge from original sources;
  • provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed most helpfully in the future.

The 2012 Mellon Fellowships competition is now closed. 

 

Details of the membership of funding committees convened by the IHR are listed on the page Composition of IHR Funding Committees.