Opportunities

The GHIL awards a number of annual research scholarships to post-graduate students, Habilitanden and postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain, and in some cases to postgraduates at British universities for research visits to Germany. The scholarships are awarded for a period of up to six months, depending on the requirements of the research project.

The Max Weber Foundation confers these annual travel grants on young academics with an international focus. They are meant to improve the career opportunities of humanities/social-science academics during their qualification phase. Selected scholars conduct a self-chosen research project at two or three MWS institutes, or at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History in Israel.

This fellowship is open to postdoctoral academics with an excellent research record in subjects with a strong research base at the Institute of Advanced Studies and the German Historical Institute London. Its purpose is to offer an early-career scholar from a German university the opportunity to pursue independent research in the stimulating intellectual environment of the two host institutions.

This two-day event gives postgraduate research students enrolled at British or Irish universities who work on German history an opportunity to present their work-in-progress, and to discuss it with other students working in the same field. In selecting students to give a presentation, preference is given to those in their second or third year who have already spent a period of research in Germany.

This bilingual seminar is organised by the German Historical Institute London and the German Historical Institute Washington. It is designed to bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. graduates in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and German universities for scholarly discussion and collaboration on all areas of medieval history.

Der jährlich gemeinsam mit der LMU München angebotene Kurs soll das Studium der britischen Geschichte in Deutschland fördern. Er wird von hochrangigen britischen Akademikern auf Englisch gehalten und richtet sich an fortgeschrittene BA und MA Studierende aller deutschen Universitäten. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 20 begrenzt.

The annual summer school on British history, jointly organized with the LMU Munich, is meant to foster the study of British history in Germany. Held in English by senior British academics, it is aimed at advanced BA and MA students at any German university.  Participants are limited to 20.

The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis. Topics considered are: German history (submitted to a British/Irish university), British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university), and Anglo-German relations or Anglo-German comparative history (submitted to a British/Irish/German university).

The Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize is named in memory of the former director of the German Historical Institute London who died in 2004. This prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding piece of German research on British history. It covers the cost of translating the work into English and publishing it in the Institute's series Studies in British and Imperial History.

The German Historical Institute offers approximately 20 internships each year to students from German universities studying history, library science or administration. Internships may run for a period of 4 to 8 weeks or up to 3 months in the library.