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27 January 2025 / Grants and Awards

Both research and practitioner grants programmes now open

Every year the Society for Theatre Research offers grants to UK researchers exploring an aspect of British or British-related theatre. We offer two types: Research Grants and Practitioner Research & Development Grants.

Applications are now open both for the Research Grants and for the Practitioner Grants. Details can be found below:

  1. Research grants for scholars investigating aspects of the British theatre requiring access to archives, collections, specific sites or people, or help with compiling and disseminating original research. These grants are available for academic and non-academic researchers alike, though the standard of work expected will be equivalent to post-graduate level. Grants range from £200 to £1,000, as contributions to the cost of research.

Applications open: 20th January 2025
Applications close:  28th March 2025

  1. Practitioner research and development grants: a number of grants of £200 each will be made available later this year to support those practitioners who are working in the UK to facilitate British and British-related theatre projects. These grants are a development of the programmes we ran in 2020 and 2021. See Covid19 Support Grants 2020 and Practitioner Grants 2021 for more about these.

Applications open: 27th January 2025
Applications close: 4th April 2025

Please see the respective pages for the application forms and more details on eligibility. You can also read reports from successful grant applicants (scroll down the Research Grants page), to give you an indication of whether your project might be suitable.

If you have any questions on either programme, please contact grants@str.org.uk