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Colin Matthew Fund, travel awards for historical research, is open for 2022 applicants

Professor [Henry] Colin Gray Matthew was a Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh’s from 1974-1999. His focus was on British history throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Applications are invited to the Colin Matthew Fund, for small grants to support travel for the purposes of research.  The grants are intended to support research for a thesis on an historical topic: applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students at the University.

The Committee for the Fund hopes to make a number of awards up to a total value of £5,000: the maximum value of an individual award will be £500.

To apply for the Colin Matthew Fund, please complete the form below by Friday of Fifth Week of Trinity Term, 27 May 2022. Applicants are asked to ensure that their tutor or supervisor writes a letter in support of their application by the same date.

Applicants will be informed of the outcome before the end of Trinity Term 2022. Applications for The Colin Matthew Travel Grant should be made via the online form here.