WSG bursary 2022/3

Applications for the 2022/3 WSG bursary closed on 30 November 2022.

The Committee was delighted to be able to award our main bursary to Eleanor Bird for work on Margaret Davy, sister-in-law of Humphrey Davy and collector of his works. The panel felt a second, smaller award was merited this round because of the outstanding quality of the application and so were pleased to award a travel bursary to Brianna Robertson-Kirkland to pursue her work on three Georgian opera singers (Elizabeth Billington, Anna Selina Storace and Gertrude Mara). Congratulations to both applicants.

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Applications are considered by the WSG committee. Eligible applicants include early career researchers*, independent scholars or PhD students who are members of the WSG.  The bursary is intended to support research in any aspect of women’s studies in the period 1558-1837 for new or continuing interdisciplinary or single-discipline projects

The bursary of £750 will normally be paid on presentation of receipts. The successful applicant will be expected to give a paper at a future WSG meeting in person or via Zoom. The contribution of the WSG bursary should be acknowledged in any resulting publications.

*Early career researcher is ‘an individual who is within eight years of the award of their PhD or within 6 years of their first academic appointment’ (AHRC).

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Previous Bursary Winners

• 2023: Eleanor Bird, ‘Margaret Davy, sister-in-law of Humphrey Davy and collector of his works’; Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, ‘Examining three Georgian opera singers: Elizabeth Billington, Anna Selina Storace and Gertrude Mara’
• 2019: Charlotte Young, ‘Women’s involvement in Canterbury sequestrations, 1643-50’; Hannah Jeans, ‘Women’s Reading Habits and Gendered Genres, c.1600-1700’
• 2018: Madeleine Pelling, ‘The friendship of Horace Walpole and Mary Hamilton’; Rebecca Simpson, ‘Narratives of pregnancy’
• 2017: Charmian Mansell, ‘A new history of female service in early modern England, 1550-1650

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