The BARS Executive Committee established the Stephen Copley bursary scheme in order to support postgraduate and early-career research within the UK. The bursaries primarily fund expenses incurred through travel to libraries and archives necessary for the applicant’s research, alongside other research-focused costs, such as (but not limited to) photocopying, scanning, and childcare. Please do join us in congratulating the very worthy winners and their projects:
Roseanna Kettle (York) – ‘Poetry and Industrialism in the Romantic Age: Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester’
Francesco Marchionni (Durham) – ‘En Dehors: A History of Romantic Ballet in Europe’
Hannah Wilson (Cambridge) – ‘Gift Exchange and Consent in Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novels, 1740-1820’
Megan Louise Gray (Newcastle) – ‘“What a shocking thing […to] fight about our common friend Lord Byron”: The competing constructions of Byron’s posthumous reputation in the 1820s’
Once they have completed their research projects, each winner will write a brief report. These reports will be published on the BARS Blog and circulated through our social media. For more information about the bursaries, including reports from past winners, please visit our website: www.bars.ac.uk.
Dr Gerard McKeever
Bursaries Officer, BARS