Fellowships

Each year the Institute is home to over 20 Early Career Fellows. Early Career Research Fellowships range from 6 to 24 months in duration. They provide financial support for early career historians completing a PhD or undertaking post-doctoral research.

The IHR also appoints Senior Fellows and includes many distinguished historians among its current senior fellowship. Senior Fellows are leading figures who are recognised for their research or the promotion of history as a discipline.

Honorary Fellowships recognise outstanding achievement in the promotion of history, scholarship, research and/or academic leadership over a considerable period of time.

Individuals who have made an outstanding contribution as staff members to the Institute of Historical Research have also been made Honorary Fellows. Honorary Fellowships are no longer offered, but current Honorary Fellows remain Fellows for life. 

The Institute also offers an institutional affiliation for historians involved in active research in history, or who contribute to historical studies more broadly. Associate Fellowships are intended to enable wider collaboration on issues relevant to the study of history and its importance in society.

Alumni Fellows are former PhD students and Junior Fellows who seek an academic institution having completed their time at the IHR.

The Institute also offers a range of Awards, Bursaries and Prizes, open to historians of differing career stages and research interests. Many of these awards are available through benefactions and gifts, or in partnership with learned societies and education foundations.

Our awards and bursaries support historical research and publishing. Our prizes acknowledge excellence in writing and presentation, with a focus on work by early career historians.

Our Research Partners are historians working in partner organisations, whose research is aligned with the Institute's academic strategy