Awards and Prizes

The HDR/ECR Mentoring Scheme will pair Higher Degree Researchers with Early Career Researchers in a mentor/mentee relationship, creating space for HDRs to ask questions and

Funding and mentoring opportunity for postgraduate students and independent historians.  In 2022 the Australian Historical Association is offering writing and financial support linked to the

This award supports Early Career Researcher historians to develop their professional skills. Specifically, it will link Early Career Researchers with senior historians who will mentor

Funding opportunity for postgraduate students and independent historians The Australian Historical Association (AHA) in association with the Copyright Agency offers travel and writing bursaries linked

Funding Opportunity for Secondary School History Teachers The AHA/Honest History: AHA Conference Teacher Scholarship supports a secondary school History teacher to attend the annual Australian

The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. The Award commemorates the contribution to

The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher (within 5 years of PhD conferral) in any

Please note that this prize is administered by the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. The Ernest Scott Prize for History is awarded annually to

Funding opportunity for Early Career Researchers.  The Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme supports Early Career Research historians to attend and present at the

The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work  of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a

The Kay Daniels Award is a biennial prize recognising outstanding original research with a bearing on Australian convict history and heritage including in its international

The Magarey Medal for Biography is awarded biennially to the female person who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on

The Marian Quartly Prize (previously the Taylor and Francis prize) is awarded to the best article published in History Australia in the last calendar year,

National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Association scholarships assist talented postgraduate scholars with the cost of copying records held in the Archives. For example, scholars may be

Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowships Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award Ernest Scott Prize History Council of South Australia Awards Isaanz Postgraduate

Description of Award  The Australian Historical Association is delighted to announce a new early career researcher bursary for attendance of the annual AHA Conference. The Patrick Wolfe Bursary

The Serle Award is given to the best postgraduate thesis in Australian history. The Award is a biennial prize to commemorate the contribution to Australian

The biennial W.K. Hancock Prize recognises and encourages an Australian scholar who has recently published a first scholarly book in any field of history. The