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:
Megan D Bennett (Sheffield) – ‘Those of Quality, Those of the Vulgar: Alcohol and Class in British Art and Literature 1747–1837’
Elena Bonacini (Cambridge) – ‘Anna Tonelli: Art, Mobility, and Exchange between Italy, Britain, and India, 1763–1846’
Katie MacLean (Stirling) – ‘Jane Austen and Fantasy’
Rachel Xhemajli (Oxford) – ‘The British Evangelical Novel and Its Sociopolitical Reception in the Early American Republic’
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
12/6/26