Conference and Travel Funding

Conference Support

This scheme offers financial assistance of up to £2,500 and in addition administrative support in kind worth up to £2,500. 
For further information, please see the following link: Events & initiatives funding - CRASSH (cam.ac.uk)

Initiatives and Conference Fund

The Economic History Society invites applications under its initiatives and conference fund. This fund is designed to promote meetings in economic and social history. In particular, activities which might encourage wider participation in the society, innovative research proposals, or work that would lead to publication in leading journals are encouraged.

Maximum of £2,000 is available to cover associated conference costs.

Applicants must be at a UK institution. Deadline: last day of November and first day of May.

For further information see the website.

Conference and Workshop Support

This fund is housed within the Faculty of History and can be applied to for conference and workshop support. The Fund only supports travel, accommodation and subsistence costs for external speakers, and grants will not exceed £1,500 for UTOs and CTOs and £1,000 for other applicants. The event must be on a historical subject. Events must be led by a member of the Faculty of History. To apply please complete the application form below and also provide a detailed statement of the aims and objectives of the event, a draft programme and a full budget showing all known expenditure and all  predicted income including delegates' fees.

Please ensure you name any speakers for which you are requesting funding and give precise costs, not rough estimates.
The Fund Managers generally expect conferences to raise some of their own income by charging registration fees.
These documents should all be e-mailed to trustfunds@hist.cam.ac.uk .

Applications received by the mid term division will be considered the same term. Applications cannot be considered outside of the managers' meetings so please apply well in advance of your event (at least two terms).

The accounts office can help with managing the financial side of your event and can also arrange for online booking for conference registration, accommodation and other related costs. Please contact the Chief Accounts Clerk on trustfunds@hist.cam.ac.uk for information.

Trevelyan Application Form

Deadlines for academic year 2023/24:

Michaelmas term 2023 - 24th November 2023

Easter term 2024 - 13th May 2024

Applications submitted in Easter term must be for events scheduled to occur in the next financial year or later.

Academic staff are reminded that they may apply to the academic expenses fund for up to £1000 per year. The next deadline is 5 p.m. on 19 Jan 2024

This Fund provides grants to support UTOs and CTOs in conducting and disseminating research. This may include fieldwork, conference attendance and research expenses, such as image costs and the digitalisation of documents. The Fund is open to permanent UTOs and CTOs, but regrettably not to postdocs, temporary and retired members of staff.  For the financial year 2023-24, no grant awarded shall exceed £1,000.

Preference shall be given to applicants who do not possess alternative sources of research funding.

No more than one application per member of staff should be submitted in any year.

Applications should be submitted for travel/expenses not yet undertaken. Applications should not be submitted retrospectively.

Applicants applying for travel should have considered the University's commitment to sustainable travel before submitting an application.

The deadlines for applications are:

19 January 2024

14 June 2024

The application form is available HERE.
The completed application form should be e-mailed to the Chief Accounts Clerk at accounts@hist.cam.ac.uk. 

Funding for Conference Organisation Grants

The Royal Historical Society grant is available to conference organisers to help fund small, specialised historical conferences in the UK which involve a substantial number of junior researchers.

Grants are generally worth £200 and may be used to subsidise registration and travel costs for junior researchers.
Applicants must be at a UK institution. Applications are considered four times each calendar year.

For further information, please see the website.

Funding for travel grants

The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports travel grants that are directly related to a project in the humanities, social science or biomedical fields.

Deadlines for submission:
Applications for travel grants may be submitted at any time. Normally a decision can be reached in eight weeks.

General conditions:
An application can be filed in the following areas of support:

• History, Language & Culture
• The interdisciplinary field "Image-Sound-Language"
• State, Economy and Society
• Medicine and the Natural Sciences

Applications can generally only be accepted if they come from universities or non-profit research institutions. Applicants must have generally already received a doctoral degree. General educational travel, excursions or lecture or congress-related travel are not supported.

Suggested outline for the application:

• Name of applicant
• Research topic
• Research institution / place where research is to be carried out (if relevant, include copy of invitation)
• Detailed description: topic, present state of research, preparatory work done, plan of procedure, theories, methods, time schedule (around 5 to 10 pages)
• Curriculum vitae and list of the applicant's publications
• Bibliography on the topic
• Itemized budget
• Declaration that no application of this or a similar kind is at present under consideration elsewhere, nor has any such application been submitted to any other organization (if an application(s) has indeed been filed, the foundation may request additional information on such).
• Date and signature

Only a single set of applications should be sent (unstapled and unbound) by postal service. Applications may be submitted in German or in English.

Further information: for more detailed information please see the website of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. 

Conference Funding

The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports scholarly events, in particular national and international conferences with the aim of facilitating the discussion and analysis of specific scholarly questions as well as fostering cooperation and networking of scholars working in the same field or on interdisciplinary topics.

Deadlines for submission:

Applications for support of a scholarly event can be submitted to the foundation by

February 28th

August 31st

November 30th

of each year. Normally a decision is made eight to ten weeks after each of these dates. It is generally not possible to receive support for a conference that has already been staged.

General conditions:

An application can be filed in the following areas of support:

• History, Language & Culture
• The interdisciplinary field "Image-Sound-Language"
• State, Economy and Society
• Medicine and the Natural Sciences

Applications can generally only be accepted if they come from a university or a non-profit research institution. Applicants must have a doctoral degree. 

The number of speakers should not exceed 30. Congresses or larger conferences or sections within the framework of symposiums, annual conferences, etc., or purely doctoral workshops or summer schools cannot be supported. 

Financial resources can be applied for to cover:

• travel expenses (rail travel 2nd class, air travel economy class), broken down according to speakers,
• costs of accommodation and
• meal costs for active participants/speakers and
• to a limited extent, generally up to €500, resources to defray incidental conference costs (printing of flyers and posters, conference support by student helpers or assistants, etc.).

The foundation generally does not provide subsidies for any fees (for example, for speakers).

Suggested outline for the application:

• Name of applicant with complete contact data (address of the institution, telephone, e-mail)
• Topic
• Date and venue of the event
• Detailed account of the scholarly goals (around 5 pages)
• List of the speakers with (tentative) lecture topics
  • A distinction should be made between speakers who have been "invited" and those who have "accepted" the invitation.
  • The precondition for the experts' assessment of the application is that at least two-thirds of the speakers have accepted the invitation. (This also applies to conferences whose field of participants is compiled through a call for papers.)
• Program and time schedule
• Budget:
  • Itemization of the resources applied for with the foundation according to types of costs. Generally only resources for active participants/speakers can be applied for.
  • If applicable, the applicant’s own resources or resources through third parties
• Declaration that no application of this or a similar kind is at present under consideration elsewhere, nor has any such application been submitted to any other organization (if an application(s) has indeed been filed, the Foundation may request additional information on such).
• Date and signature of all applicants

Only a single set of applications should be sent (unstapled and unbound) by postal service. Applications may be submitted in German or in English.

Further information: for more detailed information please see the website of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. 

The Faculty of History has established a memorial fund in memory of our former student Tom Leece (1990-2022), to support archival research undertaken by part-time PhD students.

The purpose of the fund, established through a generous donation from the Leece family, is to remember Tom’s great passion for History and enthusiasm for archival research, and to help others realise their scholarly potential and talent.

Grants of £200-£500 will therefore be made available to part-time PhD students to support archival research. To apply for support from the Tom Leece Memorial Fund, please email degree-committee@hist.cam.ac.uk before 30 April, providing: 150 words explaining where you are travelling to and why, an itemised indication of expenses, and a short support statement from your supervisor. Grants from the fund will be made in Easter term.

Foreign Travel Fund

The Foreign Travel Fund exists to support resident members of the Senate aged at least 50 years who wish to travel abroad, with a view of extending their knowledge in any branch of learning with which their teaching or research is concerned.

Further details of The Foreign Travel Fund, including the application form and deadlines, are available here on the main University website.