Roger Schofield Local Population Studies Research Fund

Thanks to the generosity of Roger Schofield, the Roger Schofield Local Population Studies Research Fund has been created to provide grants to individual researchers whose work furthers the aims of the Local Population Studies Society.

Applications are invited from amateur historians, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers and lecturers in educational institutions. Grants are intended to cover research costs such as travel to archives, conference fees and accommodation, and the costs of archival photocopying, data entry and programming, or putting data online to allow other historians to access them. We are not able to fund capital costs (such as computer equipment or books), student fees and maintenance, and subventions for publications.

Subject to annual financial constraints, the Fund Committee will consider applications of between £75 and £1,000; grants exceeding £500 will be awarded only exceptionally. The Fund Committee will assess all applications on merit, in accordance with the aims of the Local Population Studies Society.

Applications are assessed as they come in. Please send your completed form (downloaded from the link below), with an accompanying CV (no longer than two pages) to Chris Galley for consideration by the Fund Committee. Please also ask a suitable referee (such as a supervisor or archivist) to write a brief letter of support and comment on the suitability of the application.

Any enquiries concerning the fund can be sent to funding@localpopulationstudies.org.uk.