The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and MA students to support archival and library research.
Research Bursary
The Society for the Study of Labour History offers bursaries for up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers (MA and doctoral) and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history to fund essential archive or library research that they are unable to undertake due to absence of funds. We are also supporting access to online/digitised material. This may include, for example, digitisation/copying costs of material provided to individual researchers or individual subscriptions to online archival databases (where there is no access through the applicant’s institution).
We take a broad view of ‘labour history’ that includes cultural and social aspects as well as political and institutional ones. We would, in particular, welcome applications from female researchers. Mature and part-time PhD students will be eligible as well as full-time students.
If successful, you will be expected to join the SSLH – the cost of doing so will be included in your bursary. Student membership of the SSLH costs £19. Find out how to join. You are also asked to acknowledge the financial support of the SSLH in your dissertation.
On presentation of final receipts you will also be expected to provide the Society with a report on the activities supported by this bursary, detailing how this will contribute to your dissertation research. This report will be published on the Society’s website – please read the guidance notes at the end of this form. Full payment of the bursary will not be made until this short report and receipts have been submitted and accepted. The report may have to be revised if not considered sufficiently detailed before any funds can be released.
Download the Research Bursaries application form.
BA/Taught Masters Dissertation Bursary
The SSLH BA/Taught Masters Dissertation Bursary is designed to support archival and library research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history topic up to a maximum of £500. We are also supporting access to online/digitised material. This may include, for example, digitisation/copying costs of material provided to individual students for their research or individual subscriptions to online archival databases (where there is no access through the applicant’s institution).
If successful, you will be expected to join the SSLH – the cost of doing so will be included in your bursary. Student membership of the SSLH costs £19. Find out how to join.
You must be a registered student at a university in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland. Bursary holders must either be in the final year of an undergraduate degree or undertaking a taught Masters degree.
On presentation of final receipts you will also be expected to provide the Society with a report on the activities supported by this bursary, detailing how this will contribute to your dissertation research. This report will be published on the Society’s website – please read the guidance notes at the end of this form. Full payment of the bursary will not be made until this short report and receipts have been submitted and accepted. The report may have to be revised if not considered sufficiently detailed before any funds can be released.
You are also asked to acknowledge the financial support of the SSLH in your dissertation.
Download the BA/Taught Masters Bursary application form.
Read reports from recent recipients of SSLH bursaries
- My dissertation considers how innovative theatre and cinema produced across Spain and Britain during the Spanish Civil War mobilised new audiences to engage with political propaganda. The final chapter considers the actions of Unity Theatre to reach working-class communities and […]
- Women who worked in munition factories during the First World War were known as the Canary Girls. The nickname was reminiscent of the effects of the chemical TNT, as it gave their skin a yellow tint. Whilst the fight of […]
- In 2015, I stumbled across the Amalgamated Housing Co-Operative in the Bronx, the northern-most borough of New York City. As a long-time housing worker, campaigner and trade unionist, I was intrigued by homes of such obvious quality that, I learned, […]
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