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UCL History fosters a vibrant and interdisciplinary research community. Our researchers are regularly awarded impressive grants and fellowships.

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Grants

British AcademyUKRI01/09/2019-11/01/2025A New Antiquity: Western Reception and Revival of Ancient Assyria in Decorative Arts and Architecture, 1850-1935
British AcademyUKRI01/04/2019-31/03/2024The Projet Volterra: Law and Empire, AD 193-455; Law and the End of Empire I; II
European Commission Horizon 2020EU01/11/2020-31/10/2025Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: The Fragments of the Roman Republic
Private IndividualOther01/05/2021-30/09/2031Nahrein Network
Leverhulme TrustCharities01/09/2021-31/08/2024Philip Leverhulme Prize Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
European Commission Horizon 2020EU01/10/2020-30/09/2025African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa
British AcademyUKRI01/07/2020-01/08/2023Living with Violent Heritage: contests and coexistence in post-war Sri Lanka
European Commission Horizon 2020EU24/02/2021-30/11/2025Hausa and Kanuri languages as archive for the history of Sahara and Sahel in 18th and 19th century
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilUKRI01/02/2021-31/01/2024Legacies of the British Slave Trade: the structures and significance of British investment in the Transatlantic slave trade c.1550-1807
Leverhulme TrustCharities01/10/2021-30/09/2024The Right to Walk: A Pedestrian History of Three European Cities, 1848-1914
Leverhulme TrustCharities01/09/2021-31/08/2024Weatherproof: Experimenting with Materials and Dressing for the Environment in Early Modern Europe
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilUKRI01/01/2023-31/12/2024Liturgical and literary landscapes: the cult of St Oswald in the German-speaking world
Leverhulme TrustCharities01/01/2023-31/12/2025The British Constitution and the Second British Empire, 1776-1832
Leverhulme TrustCharities01/05/2023-30/04/2026Documentary Afterlives: Recycling the Past in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Judiciaries, 1371-1600
European Commission Horizon 2020EU01/09/2022-30/06/2023Casuistry, the Laity and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in the Late Middle Ages: Rule-based ethics in complex institutions
British AcademyUKRI01/09/2023-31/08/2026Freedom In Black Thought in the Early Modern Atlantic (1450-1750)
British AcademyUKRI01/04/2023-30/04/2024Merleau-Ponty and the History of Social Thought
British AcademyUKRI01/08/2023-01/02/2024Multiple Lives of Indian Objects: Material Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia
Leverhulme TrustCharities01/10/2023-30/09/2026The Ends of Coal: Tracing British Carbon in the Twentieth Century

Fellowships

UCL History participates in various visiting and fellowship programmes. These programmes allow scholars from different backgrounds to develop their research alongside our academics and strengthen national and international research partnerships.

The History Research Committee invites expressions of interest (EOI) for the following calls.

Before you begin your application:

  • Read the funders' call guidance carefully.

  • Ensure that you are eligible to apply. Contact the funder to discuss your eligilty if required and submit the decision with your EoI. 

  • Ensure you can deliver your research objectives within the costs and remit of the call.

  • You must seek support from a potential mentor within the History department before applying. Our academics are heavily involved in teaching and must have the capacity to support individuals.

Some calls have now closed but we are assuming these calls will open at the same time in following years. Please note that call guidance may vary year on year. For all inquiries regarding the application process, please contact our Departmental Manager, Claire Morley.

leverhulme trust written in black against a white backgroundLeverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships

Allows eminent senior professors from overseas to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK.

EOI deadlines: Friday 28 February 2025 and Friday 27 June 2025

leverhulme trust written in black against a white backgroundLeverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships

Aimed at early career researchers with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.

EOI deadline: Friday 6 September 2024 (please ask your mentor to email j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk and claire.morley@ucl.ac.uk letting them know you will apply with their support).
FileLeverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2024-2025

FileApply here.

 

a white 'W' and 'wellcome' in white against a black backgroundWellcome Trust Early-Career Awards

Aimed at early-career researchers who are ready to develop their research identity through innovative projects, delivering shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, researchers will be ready to lead their own independent research programme.

EOI deadlines: Friday 6 September 2024, Friday 28 February 2025 and Friday 27 June 2025

'the british academy' written in white against a black backgroundThe British Academy Global Professorships

Aimed at established researchers overseas to undertake high-risk, curiosity-driven research in the humanities and social sciences in a UK research institution. The scheme looks for cutting-edge projects that are expected to add significant value to the UK host institution and vice versa, leading to novel and innovative collaborations.

EOI deadline: Friday 27 June 2025

'the british academy' written in white against a black backgroundThe British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Aimed at early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project, towards the completion of a significant piece of publishable research.

Deadline for receipt of materials at UCL History Department: Wednesday 11 September 2024

FileBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024-2025

'the british academy' written in white against a black backgroundThe British Academy International Fellowships

Aimed at early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders.

EOI deadline: Friday 6 September 2024

'the british academy' written in white against a black backgroundThe British Academy Visiting Fellowships

Enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution of their choice for up to six months and develop collaborative projects with UK colleagues.

EOI deadline: applications are considered on a rolling basis until 6 September 2024. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the Departmental Manager or a suitable mentor as far ahead of the internal deadline as possible to discuss their application.

outline of a woman's head and shoulders against a maroon backgroundMarie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships

1)  European Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in projects by either coming to EU Member States/Horizon Europe Associated Countries (the UK is a Horizon Europe Associated Country) from any country in the world or moving within the EU/Horizon Europe Associated Countries. 

2)  Global Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to European nationals or long-term residents who wish to engage in projects with organisations outside EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries. These fellowships require an outgoing phase of 12-24 months in a non-associated Third Country and a mandatory 12-month return phase to a host organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. 

EOI deadline: Friday 27 June 2025

economic and social research council logoESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

Aimed at those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, networks, research and professional skills. The proposal can be from a single discipline or a combination of disciplines, but social sciences must make up at least 50% of your fellowship activities.

EOI deadline: Friday 28 February 2025

Commonwealth Fund Committee

The Commonwealth Fund Committee (CFC) supports scholarly research focusing on the history of the United States of America.

american flagScope 

1.    The primary purpose of the Committee is to support activities – conferences, colloquia, symposia, workshops and public lectures taking place at or with UCL – that focus principally on US history. Activities taking a transnational or comparative approach are eligible for support, but the US must be a primary focus of such activities.
2.    Staff in the History Department and the Institute of the Americas working in combination with History are eligible to apply for funding.
3.    The Committee will also support doctoral students in History or the Institute of the Americas who need to conduct research in the United States. The amount of money available will vary from year to year.
4.    The Committee will also consider proposals for a regular named Commonwealth Fund Lecture on US History.

Applicants are encouraged to apply to multiple funding sources beyond the CFC.

The amount of funding available in any year will be determined by the Committee and is based on the Committee’s assessment of the overall state of the fund.

Membership

The Committee comprises academic staff working on the United States from the History Department and a representative from the Institute of the Americas. Single-gender panels will be avoided whenever possible.

Applying

For application forms to fund research events or doctoral research travel, please contact the chair, Alex Goodall. Such applications must be submitted no later than a week before the Committee meeting date for consideration.

Research Travel Support

Since 2023, the Commonwealth Fund Committee has been supporting students who need to conduct primary research in the United States. The following students have reported on their research trips: