Strategic Research Grant Deadline: 15th November 2015

6 August 2015

The Strategic Research Grant expresses the Society's work to lead the academic commitment to design history research. Founded in 2012 to encourage design history research in non-Western geographies and post-colonial perspectives, 2015 sees the launch of the Strategic Research Grant as an annual award. The Grant supports original and significant research in non-Western, post-colonial and other areas, themes and methods that have either been overlooked or underrepresented in the field but are important to its future development. Applicants must be engaged in research leading to a conference paper or published outcome such as a peer-review journal or other academic publication. The grant can be used to assist with the following costs:

• Costs incurred during research trips, including: travel and accommodation to conduct vital primary or secondary research; photocopying and scanning costs at archives or libraries; library memberships.

• Cost of reproduction and permission clearance to use copyrighted images in publications authored by the applicant.

• Production subvention costs issued by the publisher of a publication authored by the applicant.

• Registration fees, travel and accommodation costs to present a paper, poster or convene a session at an academic conference.


A total of £1,000 is awarded annually for the Strategic Research Grant. This sum is divided amongst several applications deemed of high merit, at the discretion of a judging panel drawn from the DHS Executive Committee. Parts of a request might be funded and others rejected. The total project budget may be of any size, but individual applicant's funding requests should not exceed £500. Applicants are required to give as detailed a budget as possible.

The application form and full description of the award can be found in the Guidance Notes on the Strategic Research Grant webpage.

The Strategic Research Grant is open to all scholars (including students) working individually or collaboratively anywhere in the world whether independently or in the employ of an institution.

Applicants do not need to be members of the DHS to apply for this grant.

Please send your completed application form by 15th November (17.00 GMT) via email to DHS administrator Elli Michaela Young at: designhistorysociety@gmail.com.

All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission within 8 weeks of the application deadline.