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UK-IE Digital Humanities Association’s 2026 Annual Event Bursary announcement
We are pleased to announce that our Annual Event Bursary Applications are now open! The deadline for these applications is 13 April 2026. We plan to award between 8 to 10 bursaries of up to £350 to support in-person attendance at the Annual Event. Bursaries are accompanied by a registration fee waiver.
Bursaries are intended to support those who do not have support from their institution or employer, a grant or other funding source. This includes those who do not have access to funding from their organisation to support attendance at the Annual Event. The bursary can be used to cover costs related to travel, accommodation, subsistence, childcare and caring responsibilities, other accessibility costs, or anything else that would facilitate the recipient’s attendance at the event.
Applicants do not have to deliver a paper to be eligible for a bursary.
Our aim is to encourage participation from colleagues that face additional barriers attending such events, so bursaries are open to the following groups:
- Postgraduate students enrolled in a degree course (masters or doctoral). Preference will be given to students enrolled in Irish or UK institutions.
- Early Career: our understanding of early career aims to be as inclusive as possible to reflect careers in different sectors. Examples of early career include:
- Those who are within eight years of finishing their professional training or degree program.
- Those who are within six years of their professional appointment (the first full or part time paid employment contract).
- These periods exclude any career break, for example (but not limited) due to: family care; health reasons; reasons related to COVID-19 such as home schooling or increased teaching load.
- Those who have recently changed career paths into a role aligned with the digital humanities / digital scholarship.
- Preference will be given to those who are not employed on permanent contracts.
- Precariously employed: those people who are working without a permanent contract or who are not currently affiliated with an organisation or institution (e.g. independent scholars). This includes those on fixed-term contracts.
For full details and how to apply, please refer to the guidance here: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/03/23/2026-annual-event-bursary-announcement/.
