Next up is 2024 BAIS Bursary Prize winner, Killian Beashel (UCL). Killian utilised his bursary to facilitate archival research in Irish art collections: The research funded by the bursary took place at the Arts Council of Ireland archive in Dublin, the National Irish Visual Arts Library at NCAD, and the Void Art Centre in Derry. […]

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The second report from our 2024 Bursary Prize winners comes from Hannah Evans (University of Liverpool). Hannah used her BAIS bursary to attend conferences in Iceland and France and disseminate her research findings: The BAIS Bursary Prize 2024 facilitated my attendance at two academic conferences this year, where I had the opportunity to present my […]

Read more "A Comparative Study of Women’s Economic Agency in Medieval Ireland and Iceland"

We begin again our BAIS PGR bursary prize winners blog post series. Each year we ask our bursary prize winners to write up a short post on how they spent their bursary funds. This year we begin with Simon Aeppli (University of Brighton), for whom the BAIS bursary supported the development of his practice-based PhD: […]

Read more "Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970’s Northern Ireland"

Our final report from the 2023 BAIS Bursary Prize winners comes from Peter Bothwell (University of St Andrews). Peter’s bursary enabled him to travel to Northern Ireland to conduct integral interviews for his doctoral project: The bursary allowed me to travel to Northern Ireland to conduct three rounds of interviews for the project. The project […]

Read more "Ulster Loyalists and the British White Working Class: An Exploration in Modern Alienation"

Next up is 2023 BAIS Bursary Prize winner, Sarah Mason (University of Edinburgh). As an oral history investigation, Sarah used her bursary to support the interview stage of her doctoral project: Sarah Mason is a PhD student in History at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral project focuses on the quotidian realities of women across […]

Read more "Bin Lid Brigades and Mummy’s Little Helpers:  An Oral History Investigation of Communal Networks amongst the Women of West Belfast between 1970 – 1985"

The second report from our 2023 Bursary Prize winners comes from David Glover (University of Liverpool). David used his BAIS bursary to conduct archival research for his PhD project on the prominent republican figure and journalist Seán Cronin: David Glover is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies. His project […]

Read more "Seán Cronin: Reflecting and developing republican thought as an activist intellectual, observer and influencer 1956-1973."

We begin again our BAIS PGR bursary prize winners blog post series. Each year we ask our bursary prize winners to write up a short post on how they spent their bursary funds. This year we begin with Henry Theakston (University of Leeds), for whom the BAIS bursary supported his archival research in London: Receiving […]

Read more "The Irish Front? : The Easter Rising and the First World War"