ABOUT
Our Fellowship Programme provides a home for researchers conducting historical projects. The non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship offers a formal IHR affiliation for those who will benefit from a period of time embedded within the IHR community and who wish to contribute to that community. Fellows will likely be non-affiliated historians at all career stages, overseas visitors, or researchers working in other parts of the history world such as public history or museums and archives. The overriding purpose of the Fellowship is to create an active community of mutually supportive researchers.
As members of the IHR, fellows have access to our extensive library & digital resources, our community common room, our events programme and our seminars. As members of the University of London, fellows also have access to Senate House Library, one of the UK’s largest academic libraries for arts, humanities and social sciences. This includes offsite access to digital resources. Fellows are also entitled to a University email account and an entry in the University Directory of Expertise.
Fellows are invited to the annual Fellows and Friends Lecture in the autumn term and are expected to attend at least some of the monthly hybrid Fellow’s Symposia in which our funded early career and doctoral fellows present their work. All IHR Fellows have an introductory meeting with the IHR Director to discuss their role within the Institute. We welcome applications from those who wish to engage with the IHR remotely, as well as those who want a more in-person experience.
Applications are invited every summer via our online applications system only. Fellowships are offered for one year from 1st October in the first instance with the opportunity to apply for renewal. All fellows must complete a short report on their activities in the summer term and renewal is contingent on this report being received.
Applicants are asked to explain:
- What historical work they will pursue as an IHR Fellow. Each fellow will normally bring an on-going project with them. The IHR Fellowship is designed to support historical practice rather than being a mark of distinction alone.
- Why they wish to join the IHR community and how it will benefit them. Fellow’s tend to have specific reasons for wanting this particular relationship with the IHR. These might include access to our unique resources, to our communities of scholarship, or research synergies with our own work on Place, Policy, Practice and Public History.
- How they will contribute to the IHR community as a Fellow. Past fellows have made diverse contributions including pieces for the IHR’s On History Blog, involvement in the training and mentoring of early career scholars, and support for events and projects.
- What collaborations they hope to develop as a Fellow. The IHR offers an intellectual home for all those who work with the past and acts as a history-hub for history connections across the UK and beyond. We encourage our fellows to participate in at least one IHR Seminar for the duration of the fellowship and to work with our networks to develop new collaborations.
In a climate of cuts and precarity, we particularly encourage applications from those who are in-between posts or are otherwise without a history-home. Such applicants might find the IHR affiliation useful when making new job applications, might benefit from IHR resources when completing projects, and will find the IHR community a source of intellectual support and mentorship.
We also encourage applications from those working in community history and want the IHR Fellowship to reflect capacious and inclusive ideas of what history is, and who historians are.
A small amount of research support funding may be available to those Fellows in greatest need of it to complete a particular project. All IHR Fellows must adhere to the Institutes Terms and Conditions. The IHR reserves the right to terminate a Fellowship following any breach of these conditions.
DURATION
The IHR Fellowship is for 1 year, beginning on 1 October. It is renewable, on request following a fuller report on the previous years’ activities.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications can be made via our Online Application System and consistofthreeelements
- a short CV.
- a statement of research interests and projects.
- a letter outlining why the applicant requires the resources of the IHR and what they anticipate contributing to the IHR community.
- One letter of support for the application. This should be from someone who can vouch for the applicant’s interest in research, good faith and behaviour. Letters might be from might be from academics, those working in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector, or those involved in community history projects, amongst others.
DEADLINE
31 August 2024
FINAL REPORT
It is a condition of the IHR Fellowship to submit an annual report, which will be by 31 May 2025. Our Fellowships and Partnerships Team will provide a link and details of how to submit the report, closer to this date.
The report should describe the Fellowship experience, detailing the activities undertaken during the period of the Fellowship, and contributions made to the life of the IHR.
SELECTION POLICIES
Applications will be considered by a panel, chaired by the IHR’s Advisory Council Chair, and including the IHR Director, as well as one other member of the Advisory Council. The committee will assess the applications with reference to the following criteria, taking career stage into account.
- The vitality of the research track record and/or other relevant history-focused activity of the applicant as exhibited by their application and letter of support.
- The importance of the proposed research to the applicant’s area of work and the prospects for wider dissemination, and/or public engagement and impact.
- The extent to which the Fellowship will assist the applicant in their career development.
- The candidate’s likely contribution to the IHR community and the reach and/or significance of the collaborations that they hope to develop.
IHR Fellowship (Non-Stipendiary)
ABOUT
Our Fellowship Programme provides a home for researchers conducting historical projects. The non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship offers a formal IHR affiliation for those who will benefit from a period of time embedded within the IHR community and who wish to contribute to that community. Fellows will likely be non-affiliated historians at all career stages, overseas visitors, or researchers working in other parts of the history world such as public history or museums and archives. The overriding purpose of the Fellowship is to create an active community of mutually supportive researchers.
As members of the IHR, fellows have access to our extensive library & digital resources, our community common room, our events programme and our seminars. As members of the University of London, fellows also have access to Senate House Library, one of the UK’s largest academic libraries for arts, humanities and social sciences. This includes offsite access to digital resources. Fellows are also entitled to a University email account and an entry in the University Directory of Expertise.
Fellows are invited to the annual Fellows and Friends Lecture in the autumn term and are expected to attend at least some of the monthly hybrid Fellow’s Symposia in which our funded early career and doctoral fellows present their work. All IHR Fellows have an introductory meeting with the IHR Director to discuss their role within the Institute. We welcome applications from those who wish to engage with the IHR remotely, as well as those who want a more in-person experience.
Applications are invited every summer via our online applications system only. Fellowships are offered for one year from 1st October in the first instance with the opportunity to apply for renewal. All fellows must complete a short report on their activities in the summer term and renewal is contingent on this report being received.
Applicants are asked to explain:
- What historical work they will pursue as an IHR Fellow. Each fellow will normally bring an on-going project with them. The IHR Fellowship is designed to support historical practice rather than being a mark of distinction alone.
- Why they wish to join the IHR community and how it will benefit them. Fellow’s tend to have specific reasons for wanting this particular relationship with the IHR. These might include access to our unique resources, to our communities of scholarship, or research synergies with our own work on Place, Policy, Practice and Public History.
- How they will contribute to the IHR community as a Fellow. Past fellows have made diverse contributions including pieces for the IHR’s On History Blog, involvement in the training and mentoring of early career scholars, and support for events and projects.
- What collaborations they hope to develop as a Fellow. The IHR offers an intellectual home for all those who work with the past and acts as a history-hub for history connections across the UK and beyond. We encourage our fellows to participate in at least one IHR Seminar for the duration of the fellowship and to work with our networks to develop new collaborations.
In a climate of cuts and precarity, we particularly encourage applications from those who are in-between posts or are otherwise without a history-home. Such applicants might find the IHR affiliation useful when making new job applications, might benefit from IHR resources when completing projects, and will find the IHR community a source of intellectual support and mentorship.
We also encourage applications from those working in community history and want the IHR Fellowship to reflect capacious and inclusive ideas of what history is, and who historians are.
A small amount of research support funding may be available to those Fellows in greatest need of it to complete a particular project. All IHR Fellows must adhere to the Institutes Terms and Conditions. The IHR reserves the right to terminate a Fellowship following any breach of these conditions.
DURATION
The IHR Fellowship is for 1 year, beginning on 1 October. It is renewable, on request following a fuller report on the previous years’ activities.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications can be made via our Online Application System and consistofthreeelements
- a short CV.
- a statement of research interests and projects.
- a letter outlining why the applicant requires the resources of the IHR and what they anticipate contributing to the IHR community.
- One letter of support for the application. This should be from someone who can vouch for the applicant’s interest in research, good faith and behaviour. Letters might be from might be from academics, those working in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sector, or those involved in community history projects, amongst others.
DEADLINE
31 August 2024
FINAL REPORT
It is a condition of the IHR Fellowship to submit an annual report, which will be by 31 May 2025. Our Fellowships and Partnerships Team will provide a link and details of how to submit the report, closer to this date.
The report should describe the Fellowship experience, detailing the activities undertaken during the period of the Fellowship, and contributions made to the life of the IHR.
SELECTION POLICIES
Applications will be considered by a panel, chaired by the IHR’s Advisory Council Chair, and including the IHR Director, as well as one other member of the Advisory Council. The committee will assess the applications with reference to the following criteria, taking career stage into account.
- The vitality of the research track record and/or other relevant history-focused activity of the applicant as exhibited by their application and letter of support.
- The importance of the proposed research to the applicant’s area of work and the prospects for wider dissemination, and/or public engagement and impact.
- The extent to which the Fellowship will assist the applicant in their career development.
- The candidate’s likely contribution to the IHR community and the reach and/or significance of the collaborations that they hope to develop.