Research Training

The session seeks to demystify peer review in all of its different manifestations but will focus particularly on academic articles and book reviews.

This beginners training session addresses the most common way humanities scholars wish to engage with maps and map making: building simple maps to illustrate locations and routes as part of your research.

This session will investigate terms and methodologies, look at some example projects, think about best practice, and build a toolkit together.

This session draws together a panel of historians with different experiences of podcasting. They will offer practical advice on best practice for those embarking on podcasting for the first time.

This online research training 'Researching migration and refugee narratives' will focus on finding and using sources that highlight personal migration and refugee experiences such as diaries, letters, oral history interviews and memoirs.

The session will provide participants with the opportunity to share their oral history projects or ideas, learn about digital methods and available resources, and brainstorm their own plans for dissemination, outreach and impact.

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

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

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

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

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

This workshop aims to de-mystify the process of writing for broader audiences, discussing proposal writing, getting an agent and finding a publisher.

A journal editor and journal article author will discuss different perspectives on the journal publishing process and finding the right journal for your work.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The IHR London Summer School offers a unique opportunity to explore London’s historic places from our home at Senate House in the heart of Bloomsbury.

IHR Early Career Research Fellowships provide funding to enable early career historians to complete a doctorate or to undertake post-doctoral research.

The IHR offers a wide range of awards, bursaries and prizes to enable and reward high-quality research and publishing.

IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.