professional association
Design History Society
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Open programs10
Accessible Design History Grant
The Design History Society offers the Accessible Design History Grant to remove structural barriers that prevent disabled researchers, students, and practitioners from fully engaging with design history by funding disability-related costs such as assistive technology and software, mobility-related travel, personal assistance, sign-language interpretation or captioning, and other essential access expenses.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $3,000
Accessible Design History Grant
The Design History Society funds the Accessible Design History Grant to remove structural barriers that prevent design history researchers, students, and practitioners with disabilities from full participation by covering disability-related costs such as assistive technology, mobility-related travel, personal assistance, sign-language interpretation/captioning, and other essential access needs; the scheme is open year‑round until annual funds are allocated.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $3,000
Design History Society Research Exhibition Grant
Design History Society offers an annual Research Exhibition Grant to support design history research that leads to or involves organising physical or digital exhibitions or displays, awarding up to £2,000 total per year divided among successful applicants with individual awards not exceeding £1,000.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $2,000
Design Writing Prize (Design History Society)
Design History Society’s Design Writing Prize (2026) offers a £500 cash award, one year’s DHS membership (with Journal of Design History online access) and a free place at the 2026 DHS conference and gala dinner to promote and reward original, critically engaged writing on design across traditional and experimental formats.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $500
Outreach and Event Grant
The Design History Society (DHS) offers an Outreach and Event Grant to support members in convening free public events (workshops, seminars, lectures) that promote design history, with a total of £3,000 awarded annually across multiple awards and individual grants capped at £1,000.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $3,000
Research Access Grant (Student and Academics)
The Design History Society offers the annual Research Access Grant—£6,000 awarded across two rounds with individual awards up to £1,000—to fund essential design history research costs such as travel and accommodation for archive visits, interviews, library/museum visits, photocopying/scanning and library memberships.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $6,000
Research Exhibition Grant
The Design History Society (DHS) offers an annual Research Exhibition Grant to support design history research that leads to the organisation of physical or digital exhibitions, awarding up to £2,000 per year divided among multiple recipients, with individual awards limited to £1,000.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $2,000
Research Publication Grant (Design History Society)
The Design History Society offers an annual Research Publication Grant (total fund £3,000, individual awards up to £1,000) to support publication-related costs for research-based outputs (peer‑reviewed articles or books from academic presses/museums), awarded by a blind DHS Executive Committee panel.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $3,000
Virtual Event Grant
The Design History Society's Virtual Event Grant awards a total of £1,000 annually (divided among multiple high‑merit projects) to support virtual initiatives that foster interaction, debate and research in design history, promoting access, transnational dialogue and reduced environmental impact.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $1,000
Virtual Event Grant (Design History Society)
The Design History Society offers the Virtual Event Grant (total £1,000 awarded annually and divided among multiple meritorious projects) to fund virtual initiatives that promote interaction, debate and research in design history while increasing access and transnational dialogue with reduced environmental impact.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $1,000
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