Sources of postgraduate funding

Currently Available Studentships and Bursaries

The following studentships and bursaries are currently open to application:

Queen Mary and AHRC PhD Studentships

We are pleased to be able to offer:

  • three fully funded Queen Mary studentships available to support research into any of the school's main areas of expertise. 
  • two fully-funded Arts and Humanities Research Council studentships available to support research into any of the school's main areas of expertise. 

We can offer supervision in the areas of late medieval and early modern history; the history of Islam and the Crusades; Jewish history; the history of the emotions; the history of ideas and of political thought; the history of medicine; modern British, modern European and global history.

We also have available a number of dedicated awards:

Candidates should contact a potential supervisor from amongst our staff (or the staff of collaborating schools for joint studentships) and develop a research proposal in consultation with them.

Candidates for the studentship in Space, Time and Home are also advised to consult the websites for the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Home.

Candidates for the Wellcome Trust funded studentship in Medicine, Emotion and Disease should also consult the website of the Centre for the History of Emotions.

You must submit an application to the PhD programme in the normal manner (details here), stating on your application form which studentship(s) you wish to apply for.

Candidates with questions relating to academic matters should contact Dr Rhodri Hayward (r.hayward@qmul.ac.uk). Candidates with administrative queries should contact Alex Ferguson (alex.ferguson@qmul.ac.uk), the School’s Communications and Research Admissions Officer.

The deadline for applications is 31st January 2012.

Eligibility

Queen Mary studentships are available to both EU and International students. The eligibility criteria for AHRC studentships are more complex (please consult the AHRC’s guide to student eligibility, in particular the residency section (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/documents/guidetostudentfunding.pdf?page=65) . Candidates should ensure that they are eligible for awards before they apply.

Leo Baeck Institute Studentship in Modern Jewish History

The School of History is pleased to announce the Leo Baeck Institute Studentship in Modern Jewish History. Information on the studentship and how to apply can be found here.

The deadline for applications is 31 December 2011.

 

Studentships and Bursaries archive:

These School of History has been able to offer these studentships and bursaries in the past, and hopes to be able to do so again this year, although they have not all been confirmed. This page will be updated with new information as soon as we have it.

Leo Baeck Institute MA Bursaries

The Leo Baeck Institute in conjunction with the School of History, Queen Mary, University of London is offering two bursaries tenable for the academic year 2011/12 for students taking the Leo Baeck Institute MA in European Jewish History. The bursary will cover the fee at the Home/EU rate (the rate for 2011/12 is £4900). Candidates should normally have attained or expect to attain a first class degree or equivalent in history or a related humanities subject. more...

Deadline for applications: 25 July 2011

John A. S. Grenville PhD Studentship in Modern Jewish History and Culture

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to offer a 3-year John A. S. Grenville studentship for an outstanding doctoral candidate wishing to pursue a research project in the field of German Jewish history and culture with a focus on the late 19th and 20th Centuries. more...

Deadline for applications: 31 August 2011

MA Bursary in the History of Medicine

The Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London, has been invited by the Wellcome Trust to nominate a candidate for an MA scholarship in the history of medicine and humanities in the Trust’s open competition.

The Centre invites applications for this nomination. It wishes to propose a student with an interest in the area of the history of medicine and the history of the emotions. If successful in the Wellcome Trust’s open competition procedure, the student will follow the MA in History within the School of History, taking modules which where possible link to the theme of the history of medicine and the emotions. The dissertation element will also be in this area.

More details and information on how to apply can be found here.

Deadline for Applications: 20 June 2011

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Institut Francais

The School of History at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in association with the Institut Français of London is pleased to announce a full three year PhD studentship (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award) covering fees and maintenance for three years from September 2011 for a student to work on the history of the Institut Français. The project will be supervised by Professor Julian Jackson (QMUL) with co-supervision from Professor Philippe Lane of the Institut Français.

The Institut Français was founded in 1910 on the initiative of a young French woman, Marie d’Orliac, who wanted to introduce French culture to a British public. Its foundation was in the spirit of the new era of Franco-British co-operation inaugurated by the Entente Cordiale of 1904 and it has played a vital role in the life of the French community in London ever since – and played a role in the early days of general de Gaulle’s Free French Movement. It is now the most important French cultural organisation in the United Kingdom.

Further details of this project and how to apply can be found here. Please contact Professor Julian Jackson (j.t.jackson@qmul.ac.uk) if you have any further questions.

Applicants will be required to have an MA in History (or be expected to attain one by the start of the studentship) and good knowledge of French. The deadline for applications is 24 June 2011.

 

Mile End Group MA Bursaries
These bursaries are offered by the Mile End Group in conjunction with the MA in Twentieth Century British History. This year the deadline is 7th July 2010. How to apply and more information can be found here. Details and For further details of the bursaries please visit the Mile End Group website or contact Dr Jon Davis (Executive Director of the Mile End Group) at j.m.davis@qmul.ac.uk.

Leo Baeck Institute MA Bursaries
These bursaries are offered by the Leo Baeck Institute for the Leo Baeck MA in European Jewish History. For further details please visit the MA webpage or please contact Dr des. Daniel Wildmann (d.wildmann@leobaeck.co.uk).

Wellcome MA Studentship in the History of Medicine
The Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London is pleased to offer a fully funded MA Studentship in the History of Medicine to be held during the academic year 2010-11. The studentship is funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of an Enhancement Award in the History of Medicine awarded to the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions.

The successful applicant will have graduated with a strong 2.1 or higher in a relevant subject at undergraduate level, and will be planning to undertake Masters research in some area of the History of Medicine, with a view to subsequent research at PhD level. The studentship will cover all university fees and will include a stipend of £20,897. The deadline for applications is 31 July 2010. For further information please contact Dr Thomas Dixon. 

 

Funding for Current Students:

Institute of Historical Research fellowships
Research students entering their fourth year, or self-funded students entering their third year, may apply for an IHR research fellowship. These are offered for one year to enable students to finish their PhD and are funded at AHRC rates. For further details see the Institute of Historical Research website.

Other potential sources of funding:
It may be useful to look through The Grants Register (published by Macmillan) in case you qualify (whether by origin, religion, place of birth or other) for awards made by charitable trusts. It is also worth consulting the Directory of Grant-Making Trusts (published by the Charities Aid Foundation). Finally, History candidates may find very useful a publication produced by the Institute of Historical Research, entitled Grants for History: A Guide to Funding. It is available from the Institute of Historical Research. A copy is also available for consultation in the Departmental Administrator’s Office in the Queen Mary History Department.