Grants and Awards
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AN INTRODUCTION TO METHODS AND SOURCES FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH The Economic History Society is pleased to offer bursaries - to include accommodation, where required - for attendance at a course entitled 'An introduction to methods and sources for historical research'. The course is an introduction, through arranged visits and lectures, to historical methods and to the sources available in London. It is organised and administered by the Institute of Historical Research and is open to students registered for a higher degree in history and cognate disciplines at a university within the UK. Recent courses have included visits to the British Library Manuscripts and Map Collections, the Public Record Office, the Royal Commission for Historical Manuscripts, the Warburg Institute, Westminster Abbey Library and the House of Lords Archives. Further information and an application form are available at: http://www.ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/conferences/courses/methods.html or by contacting: Dr Simon Trafford THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
The Economic History Society maintains a fund to encourage otherwise unfunded workshops, special meetings and other interesting initiatives in economic and social history. Activities which might encourage wider participation in the Society, in research (especially by those who are not full- time university academics) or generate research articles for submission to the Review may be particularly eligible for support from the Fund. The Society is especially keen to encourage one-day workshops which might provide sessions at the annual conference or articles for the Review. The Society will not make grants from the fund for more than £1,000 (£500 for a one-day workshop). Whatever the sum granted, there must be a specific prominent acknowledgement of the Society's support in any publicity, meeting materials or publications. Any events held with support from the fund must be open equally to all interested economic and social historians. Successful applicants will be encouraged to propose papers and/or organise sessions at the Society's annual conference. Questions concerning the objectives and criteria of the fund should be directed to the Honorary Secretary. Applications, which may be submitted to the administrative secretary at any time, will be considered by the Society's Awards Committee by 1 February and 30 June each year. An application form is available online or from: Mrs Maureen Galbraith THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY The Society will consider applications for small grants to assist undergraduate students with expenses for the preparation of economic history projects for final degree examinations in United Kingdom colleges and universities. Applications should be made by students, through supervisors, advisers or tutors, to the Secretary: PROFESSOR RICHARD TRAINOR Further information may be obtained from the Secretary. There is no application form. Requests, supported by a supervisor’s letter, should indicate the nature and proposed title of the project how it relates to economic and/or social history, the extent of its contribution to final degree classification, and details of anticipated expenditure and of the need for that expenditure. Applications may be submitted at any time. POWER,
POSTAN AND TAWNEY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN ECONOMIC/SOCIAL HISTORY,
The Economic History Society, in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, offers up to three one-year Research Fellowships in Economic/Social History, tenable at the Institute. The Fellowships will be paid at the ESRC level in the session 2002-3 and will be payable in four instalments through the Institute. The Fellowships are open to UK citizens and to candidates with a degree from a UK university. The Fellowships will be awarded either: (a) to postdoctoral candidates who must have recently completed a doctoral degree in economic/social history, broadly defined (it is a strict condition of the postdoctoral award that the thesis must have been submitted, and preferably approved, by 1st October 2002); or (b) to graduates who are engaged in the completion of a doctoral degree in economic/social history - again broadly defined - and who must have completed two years (but no more than four years full time or eight years part-time) research on their chosen topics. The Economic History Society wishes to promote work of a kind that might be published in the Economic History Review and/or in the book series, supported by the Society and published by Cambridge University Press, Longmans or the Royal Historical Society. Fellows should either undertake further historical research and writing or be engaged in study leading to a doctorate. Fellows will not be required to be resident in London but should participate in the activities at the Institute by attendance at - and the presentation of a paper to - an appropriate seminar series and by networking with fellow scholars working in the same field. They must be affiliated to a specified UK university. At the discretion of the Director of the Institute, Fellows may engage in teaching or other paid work for up to six hours per week. Fellows will also be required to submit a brief report to the Director of the Institute, and through him to the Society, on their achievements while holding the Fellowship and subsequent progress of their careers in the academic year following the end of the Fellowship (i.e. by 1st July 2004). Applications - accompanied by a one-page c.v., a summary of the thesis and a statement (up to 1000 words) of what they would expect to do during a year as a Fellow - must be made on the prescribed form. Application forms will be available in January 2002 from: Dr Debra Birch, Assistant Secretary, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU. The deadline for submissions is 30th April 2002. Interviews will be held in July. Candidates for these Fellowships should not have already been offered a different Fellowship tenable at the Institute of Historical Research for the same piece of research and for the same academic year. TRAVEL GRANTS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS The Economic History Society will consider applications for grants - normally of up to £250 - to assist post-graduate students in United Kingdom colleges and universities with travel expenses incurred in the undertaking of research into any aspect of economic and social history. Applications should be made, supported by a supervisor's statement, to the Honorary Secretary. Information concerning any attempts to obtain matching support from other sources should be submitted. Applications, which may be submitted at any time, will be considered by the Society's Awards Committee as soon as possible after 1 February and 30 June each year. An application form is available online or from: Mrs Maureen Galbraith THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY Members under the age of 35 are invited to submit, to the Editors of the Economic History Review an essay for the T.S. Ashton prize, which is awarded every other year. The winning essay is published in the Economic History Review |
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TRAVEL GRANT AWARDS The Economic History Association announces a new awards programme. These awards are open to graduate students who are currently enrolled in a graduate programme in a social science discipline, and who are currently engaged in, or considering, dissertation research in economic history. There are no requirements as to discipline or topic area. The first set of awards is for travel grants to attend the annual meetings of the Economic History Association or the Cliometrics Society. Up to twenty such grants may be awarded annually. These awards are intended to help defray costs of transportation and/or lodging, registration, and banquet fees where applicable. A small per diem will also be provided to help cover any other remaining expenses. Application is by faculty nomination. Applications should describe the student's interest in economic history and (if relevant) dissertation research. The nominating letter, and a copy of the student's current CV, should be sent to each member of the Committee by email: Avner Greif (avner@leland.stanford.edu), Robert A. Margo (robert.a.margo@vanderbilt.edu) and David Weiman (dfw5@columbia.edu). The deadline for applications to attend the 2003 EHA meetings will be announced in due course. The deadline for applications to attend the 2003 Cliometrics Society meeting is 15 March 2003. |
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GRANT AWARDS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
The Economic History Association announces two new awards programmes to foster graduate student research in economic history. These awards are open to graduate students who are currently enrolled in a graduate programme in a social science discipline or in history. There are no requirements as to topic area. The first programme is a pre-dissertation grants programme. Pre- dissertation awards provide funding for specific research purposes (for example, visiting archives or purchase of microfilm or CD-ROMs). Pre-dissertation awards are designed for graduate students who intend to write a dissertation in economic history. The Committee expects to be able to fund a maximum of five to eight pre-dissertation awards per year. The second programme is a dissertation awards programme. The dissertation award is $10,000, and is intended to be the equivalent of a fellowship. Dissertation awards are designed for students whose thesis topic has been approved and who have made some progress towards writing their dissertation. The Committee expects to fund up to three dissertation proposals per year. Students interested in applying to either programme should prepare a grant proposal. The application should include a front cover page, giving the name of the student, institutional affiliation, social security number, all contact information (mailing address, phone, email, and fax, if available), the type of award for which the student is applying, and the requested budget (pre-dissertation awards only). Applications for dissertation awards must also list the name of the chair of the dissertation committee on the front cover page. Pre-dissertation proposals should be no longer than three single-spaced pages, inclusive of any footnotes, tables, and bibliography. The body of the proposal should describe the topic of the research, explain specifically how the requested support will facilitate the research, give a timetable for completion of the research, and include a brief bibliography. Immediately following the body of the proposal there should be an itemized budget and a copy of the student's current CV. The budget and CV should not exceed two single-spaced pages in total. The Committee anticipates that most pre- dissertation awards will be in the range of $3,000-$5,000. Requests in excess of $5,000 are unlikely to be funded. Proposals for dissertation awards should be no longer than five single- spaced pages, inclusive of any footnotes, tables, and bibliography. The body of the proposal should describe the dissertation topic, explain specifically how the fellowship will facilitate completion of the dissertation (for example, travel to archives, purchase of research materials, release from teaching), describe the work to date, give a time-table for completion of the thesis, and include a brief bibliography. A one-page copy of the student's current CV should be appended after the body of the proposal. No budget is required for a dissertation proposal. Although it is not required, applicants for dissertation awards are strongly encouraged to append a draft of a completed thesis chapter after their CV. Students applying to either programme should arrange for two letters from faculty members affiliated with their graduate programme who are knowledgeable about the student and the proposed research. For dissertation awards one of these letters must be from the chair of the student's dissertation committee. Awards under either programme are non-renewable. Students cannot apply for a pre-dissertation award and a dissertation award in the same year. Recipients of dissertation awards may not subsequently apply for a pre-dissertation award, nor will the Committee fund dissertation awards to students whose dissertations are essentially completed or nearing completion. However, recipients of pre-dissertation awards may subsequently apply for a dissertation award. The Committee reserves the right to make no awards in either programme in any given year. Application materials (proposal; budget, if relevant; CV; and thesis chapter, if relevant) should be sent by email to each member of the Committee (see below). Faculty writing letters of recommendation should email these separately. Applications and letters may also be sent by regular mail. The deadline for the 2003 awards cycle is 15 November 2002. Awards will be announced by 15 January 2003. Avner Greif (avner@leland.stanford.edu) |
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