Paper Acceptances & Bursary Announcement
The Association’s 2026 Annual Event is fast approaching and we can’t wait to see you at the University of Southampton on the 15-16 June.
For those of you who responded to the Call for Papers, you’ll be pleased to hear that final decisions are being made this week and you will be notified with paper acceptances in the coming days. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out at uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk.
In the meantime, we are pleased to announce that our Annual Event Bursary Applications are now open! The deadline for these applications is 13 April 2026.
Bursaries – General Information
The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association plans to award between 8 to 10 bursaries of up to £350 to support in-person attendance at the Annual Event. Bursaries are accompanied by a registration fee waiver.
Bursaries are intended to support those who do not have support from their institution or employer, a grant or other funding source. This includes those who do not have access to funding from their organisation to support attendance at the Annual Event.
The bursary can be used to cover costs related to travel, accommodation, subsistence, childcare and caring responsibilities, other accessibility costs, or anything else that would facilitate the recipient’s attendance at the event.
Applicants do not have to deliver a paper to be eligible for a bursary.
Eligibility
To reiterate the above, you do not have to be delivering a paper or speaking to be eligible.
Bursaries are open to the following groups:
- Postgraduate students enrolled in a degree course (masters or doctoral). Preference will be given to students enrolled in Irish or UK institutions.
- Early Career: our understanding of early career aims to be as inclusive as possible to reflect careers in different sectors. Examples of early career include:
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- Those who are within eight years of finishing their professional training or degree program.
- Those who are within six years of their professional appointment (the first full or part time paid employment contract).
- These periods exclude any career break, for example (but not limited) due to: family care; health reasons; reasons related to COVID-19 such as home schooling or increased teaching load.
- Those who have recently changed career paths into a role aligned with the digital humanities / digital scholarship.
- Preference will be given to those who are not employed on permanent contracts.
- Precariously employed: those people who are working without a permanent contract or who are not currently affiliated with an organisation or institution (e.g. independent scholars). This includes those on fixed-term contracts.
Selection
Applications will be reviewed by a panel of 3 members of the Association organising collective. Your application should be no more than 400 words, and should indicate:
- Your eligibility according to the above categories (postgraduate, early career, precariously employed), and why you are seeking financial support to attend the Annual Event.
- Your motivation for attending the conference.
- Your regional location (UK, Ireland, further afield)
Logistics
- All bursary awards are made provisionally and will only be confirmed on return of a written acceptance via email and when a completed registration has been received and processed.
- Bursary recipients will be sent a personalised registration link and do not need to pay a registration fee.
- If you have any questions about expenses you would like to cover with your bursary, please contact uk-ie.digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk
To Apply
To apply, click the apply button above or follow this link to the relevant form.
