Medical Humanities funding schemes

These funding schemes support individuals, collaborations and institutions to develop important initiatives in medical 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.

The Hub Award Project funding and a stimulating space for researchers and other creative minds.

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 Humanities funding scheme may also seek to explore medicine in 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.