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Rosamund Davies Research Travel Fellowship

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The call for the 2026 Travel Fellowships is now available here

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The Rosamund Davies Research Travel Fellowship provides a grant to help support a research trip to the USA for work on projects related to American politics. When calls open, applications are invited from persons normally resident in the UK, and from scholars currently working at, or registered as postgraduates at, UK universities and institutions of higher education. Preference is generally given to young scholars, primarily postgraduate students.

It is hoped for the foreseeable future that the APG may be able to offer one or more PG/EC Research Travel Fellowships annually.  The announcement of available awards will normally be made in autumn, with a closing date at the end of the following January.  Candidates will be contacted with the results as soon as possible after the closing date.  Information will appear on this website and in the APG Newsletter. (subscribe here)

In 2022 the Rosamund Davies Research Travel Fellowship was won by Thomas Furse of City, University of London and Katie Pruszynski, The University of Sheffield. You can read a report from Thomas here and a report from Katie here. In 2024, the Fellowship was won by Claire Anderson, the University of Edinburgh, and Ben Mackay, Keele University. You can read Claire’s report here. In 2023, the Robert C Bannister Award was won by Jessica Underwood, University of Warwick. You can read a report from Jessica here. In 2025 Tim Galsworthy, Lincoln Bishop University, won the Elisha & Elizabeth Atkins Award, visiting the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can read a report from Tim here.

The Rosamund Davies Research Travel Fellowship is funded by a generous donation from APG Chair Philip John Davies. The fellowship is run in memory of his late wife Rosamund (Ros) Davies. On occasion we also run fellowships in memory of others.

Previous winners include

  • 2025:
  • Elisha & Elizabeth Atkins Award Awarded to:
  • Tim Galsworthy (Lincoln Bishop University)
  • 2024:
  • Rosamund Davies Awards to:
    • Claire Anderson (The University of Edinburgh)
    • Ben Mackay (Keele University)
  • Elisha & Elizabeth Atkins Awards to:
    • Theodore Fawcett (University of Oxford)
    • Kasper Arabi (University of Warwick)
  • 2023:
  • The Elisha and Elizabeth Atkins Award to:
    • Matthew Schlachter (University College London)
  • The Robert C Bannister Award:
    • Jessica Underwood (University of Warwick)
  • 2022:
  • 2020 & 2021:
  • Sadly cancelled due to logistical issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic
  • 2019:
  • 2016:
    • Ilaria Di Gioia

If you were a recipient of this prize and are not listed here, please get in touch: p.finn@kingston.ac.uk