Medical history and humanities

Our funding encourages bold and intellectually rigorous research applications that address the important questions at the interface of science, medicine and the wider humanities (including the social sciences and the arts). Funded research will further develop our understanding of the impact of medicine and medical sciences on human and animal health.

Medical history and humanities at the Trust

The Trust plays a pivotal role in supporting research into medical history and humanities.

Our funding schemes

Our funding embraces the broader medical humanities in a bid to encourage wider collaboration between historians of medicine and colleagues from other disciplines.

Investigator Awards Funding for world-class researchers to address the most important questions.

University awards Support enabling universities to attract and retain outstanding research staff.

Fellowships Support for individuals not in established academic posts.

Strategic Awards in Medical Humanities Provide flexible forms of support to excellent research groups with outstanding track records in their field.

Small grants Support for small-scale research projects, scoping exercises or meetings in the medical humanities.

Other personal awards Including Master's Awards, Doctoral Studentships and Research Leave Awards.

Grants and awards for libraries and archives

Our funding supports the preservation, conservation, cataloguing and digitisation of significant medical history collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland. In exceptional circumstances, strategically important collections held in other countries may be eligible for support.

Support for archives and records Information about Research Resources in Medical History scheme

Our Strategic Awards support ambitious, large-scale initiatives or research programmes that address our five research challenges. Applications through the Medical History and Humanities funding scheme may also seek to explore medicine in social, historical and cultural contexts more broadly.

For information about applying to the Trust, Grant Conditions, eligibility and deadlines see Application information. Current grantholders should see Managing a grant.

Funded projects

Featured project Mark Jackson: Allergies and asthma

A profile of Mark Jackson and his acclaimed books into the social history of allergies and people's experience of asthma over 2000 years.

See all funded projects