Funding

Richard Aldrich Bursary

We are pleased to offer up to four bursaries a year (max £500 each) to support attendance at any conference/workshop where speakers will be presenting papers in the history of education, broadly defined. These bursaries celebrate the memory of Professor Richard Aldrich (1937-2014), who spent thirty years at the Institute of Education and who wrote its official history, among many other substantial contributions to the history of education during a long and distinguished career.

The bursaries are open to students and staff affiliated to UCL (including undergraduate, masters and postgraduate students as well as early career scholars).

To make an application, please write to the Director of ICHRE via ioe.ichre@ucl.ac.uk giving details of the conference, your paper abstract, and approximate costs requested. If you have any queries please email ioe.ichre@ucl.ac.uk. 

Please find the full terms and conditions of the award here.

Deadline: 31 March 2026 (please note decisions will be made on a rolling basis)

PhD Funding 

We welcome enquiries from students interested in researching the history of education broadly defined. All ICHRE supervisors are based within the department of Education, Practice and Society at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society but we can co-supervise with other IOE departments, other UCL departments, or other institutions. For instance recently these have included UCL’s Department of Information Studies and the Department of History as well as SOAS, King’s College, School of Advanced Studies) or other institutions. History of education includes the cultural, social and economic history of education; teaching and learning; universities; adult, popular and informal education; voluntary organisations and youth movements; historiography and methodology. Advice on funding for PhD programmes at UCL is available here Funding | UCL Doctoral School – UCL – University College London. You are welcome to contact individual supervisors directly.