History Journal Mid-Career Research Award

Published: 16th April 2024

History: Journal of the Historical Association Mid-Career Research Award 

Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region.

A Mid-Career researcher is anyone beyond eight years of their PhD award or post six years of their first academic appointment.

Application form: History Mid-Career Research Award – Application Form (downloadable below).

Submissions: to historyeditors@uea.ac.uk

Award: upto £1500 for expenditure on essential travel and subsistence to visit archives, conduct interviews, or other fieldwork. The result of the award will be published on-line by Wiley as well as the research output. Failure to submit an article to History within the deadline will be noted publicly.

Criteria: judges will assess which application is likely to produce the highest quality article for submission to History by applying standard article peer review criteria.

Output: Minimum required output is an article which must be submitted to History for consideration for publication within 18 months of the receipt of the award.

Report: required within 12 months of the receipt of the award of approximately 300 words in length on the conduct of the research and likely total outputs associated with the award. The report will be published on-line by Wiley.

Deadline: 15 May 2024 

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