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The London Journal Conference Panel Bursary

The London Journal is eager to support early career scholars present their work on London at conferences and publish articles based on this work. To that end, the Journal is pleased to annouce a conference panel bursary.

The purpose of this bursary is to support panels presenting on topics that fit within the Journal’s remit at relevant academic conferences. This bursary is not for conference organisation: instead, applicants would normally be accepted to present at an academic conference, with the bursary used to cover the costs of registration, travel, and accommodation. Any academic conference regardless of discipline that would allow the inclusion of a panel on London—either singly or comparatively—is eligible.

Each eligible panel member can be awarded up to £500. As the bursary will be in the form of reimbursement, only reasonable and receipted costs will be covered. While the conference may take place anywhere in the world, recipients of the bursary must be based in the UK.

Recipients of the bursary must be postgraduate students or early career researchers (‘early career’ is defined as someone who has completed (i.e., been successfully examined for) a PhD within the previous five years) without access to other funding. The inclusion of non-ECR speakers would not preclude the other panellists from receiving the bursary.

Recipients of the bursary must seek to ensure that The London Journal is listed as the panel’s sponsor in conference materials, and recipients of the bursary must agree to submit an article to be considered for publication in the Journal within 6 months of the conference. Such a submission would be subject to the normal peer review process.

We will consider applicants who have yet to be accepted for the relevant conference (as the need for funding might otherwise preclude people from submitting panels), but such applications would only have a provisional decision, with a final decision dependent on the outcome of their submission for the conference.

We intend to award a maximum of 4 bursaries per year, and are committed to offering the bursary for an initial period of 2 years. A panel made up of members of the Journal’s editorial board and trust will consider applications, making decisions based on the paper’s originality and its fit with the Journal’s remit. We aim to make decisions quickly and on a rolling basis, although no single panel meeting will award more than 3 bursaries.

Applications are to be made online via this form.

Any questions can be directed to the Journal’s Managing Editor, Dr Aidan Norrie, at: editor@thelondonjournal.org