Opportunities
The German Historical Institute London offers a wide range of opportunities for students and early-career scholars from Germany and Britain. It awards scholarships and prizes and organizes annual conferences and summer schools aimed at undergraduates as well as Ph.D. students and post docs. In addition, it provides internships for students from German universities.

Vacancy
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in
(Postdoc) in Vollzeit (w/m/d)
Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt
Befristete Qualifikationsstelle (3 Jahre mit der Verlängerungsmöglichkeit um weitere 3 Jahre) im Hinblick z.B. auf eine Habilitation
Forschungsbereich: britische Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts bzw. die Geschichte des britischen Empire im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Ausschreibungsschluss: 19/02/2023
Vacancy
Head Librarian
Full time, permanent post
Starting 1 August 2023
Current gross salary per annum: £53.352 – £54.444 (depending on professional experience)
The German Historical Institute London is seeking to employ an enthusiastic, self-motivated and proactive Head Librarian for its research library.
German Historical Institute London
Closing date for applications: 28 February 2023
Summer School
Britain, the British Empire and Migration
20th Summer School
25–28 July 2023
This summer school will engage with British and imperial inward and outward migration from the nineteenth century until today.
Course Conveners: Dr Indra Sengupta (GHIL) and Professor Tanja Buehrer (LMU Munich)
Tutors: Marjory Harper (University of Aberdeen) and Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Sussex)
German Historical Institute London
Closing date for applications: 7 March 2023
Vacancy
Copy editor and translator
Full time, permanent post
Starting as soon as possible
Current gross salary per annum: £47.844
The German Historical Institute London is seeking to employ, at the earliest opportunity, an academic copy editor / translator German to English.
Closing date for applications: 13 March 2023
Prizes
Prize of the German Historical Institute London
The Prize of the German Historical Institute London is awarded annually for an outstanding Ph.D. thesis on German history (submitted to a British or Irish university), British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university), British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university). The Prize is 1,000 Euros. To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2022 and 31 July 2023.
Closing date for applications: 31 July 2023
Scholarships
Post-graduate Students and Postdoc Scholarships
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. The scholarships are awarded for a period of up to six months, depending on the requirements of the research project.
Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants

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.
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

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.
Student workshops
Postgraduate Students Conference

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.
Medieval History Seminar
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.
Summer School on British History

Der jährlich 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 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.
Prizes
The Prize of the German Historical Institute London

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

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.
Internships
Internships

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.