Research Training

We deliver high-quality training programmes and short courses to a wide community of historians and professionals, and provide unique distance learning opportunities.

Upcoming Research Training

Research Training at the IHR

Each year we run an extensive programme of training in historical research skills for professional historians, independent researchers, and early career scholars. For 2024/205, we are currently offering a range of courses. These vary in length from one-day to one term, and cover a variety of subjects from language learning to digital research practices.

Contact the Research Training office

Please get in touch to learn more about research training opportunities at the Institute of Historical Research. You can find our upcoming research training here.

Please click here for all SAS-wide research activities.

Contact: Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf
General enquiries: IHR.training@sas.ac.uk
Booking & Payment enquiries: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk

Office hours: Monday-Friday (09:00-16:30)

Information on refunds and cancellations can be found via the SAS Events Policies.

Our courses

Databases for historians

This 4-day course is an introduction to the theory and practice of constructing and using databases.

IHR Workshop for New Research Students in History

The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to welcome those commencing research degrees in history and related disciplines in London, the South East and throughout the UK.

Developing and Writing Funding Applications

Learn more about developing and writing funding applications in history and the humanities.

Online Sources for Historians

This one-day course provides an intensive introduction to using the internet as a tool for academic historical research, demonstrating the most useful resources, and teaching techniques to make the best use of them.

Opportunities for engagement and impact through History & Policy

Learn about the opportunities for engagement and impact through History & Policy at the IHR.

Making Maps and Analysing Historical Data in GIS

This 1 day course introduces the practicalities of mapping historical information using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software.

Methods and sources for historical research

This course aims to equip historical researchers with the skills they will need to find and gain access to all the primary source materials they need for their projects.

Palaeography and diplomatic

The course is designed to help students to work with medieval and early modern manuscripts.

Short Writing Course (PhD Training)

The aim of this course is to help PhD students with their writing skills and craft, with a particular emphasis on style and structure.

Sources to Data: Recording, Sorting, and Analysing Historical Sources Digitally

This course will help you to decide which digital tools might be best to organise and structure your research.

The Bloomsbury | Inclusive Histories: Thesis to Book

This annual initiative will support recent PHD students, from anywhere in the world, in developing their thesis into a Bloomsbury monograph.

Using Historical Maps in GIS

This 1 day course focuses upon working with historic maps as sources, and the skills and tools needed to work with them digitally.

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Online Training

Applied Public History: Places, People, Stories

This course introduces learners to applied public history: understanding and interpreting the past today, and engaging diverse communities in the practice of making and sharing histories.

Academic Self-Publishing – how, why

This training session from two experienced practitioners looks at why you might consider self-publishing and what that entails.

Research Training