The Salonika Campaign Society Philip Barnes Bursary (2024)

Overview

The Salonika Campaign Society is delighted to announce the Philip Barnes Bursary. This new initiative is offered to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers undertaking research that will contribute to knowledge of the Salonika Campaign fought across Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria between 1915 and 1918.

The successful candidate will be awarded a subsidised place on the Society’s 2024 battlefield tour. The tour of 9 days (8 nights) will run from Sunday 22 until Monday 30 September and will start and finish in Thessaloniki.

The bursary, named after Philip Barnes, SCS founder and pioneer traveller to the First World War battlefields across Macedonia, will cover accommodation, food and travel within Greece and North Macedonia for the duration of the tour. Travel to and from Greece will be at the candidate’s own expense.

Eligibility and Criteria

• Applicants must be registered on a recognised PhD/MPhil/MA programme, either full or part-time or employed as a postdoctoral researcher.
• Applications are invited from those registered at a UK or International higher education institution.
• The applicant’s subject of research must be related to an aspect of the Salonika Campaign, though it does not have to be limited to British involvement in the campaign.
• The award of the bursary is subject to receipt of a reference from one of the applicant’s academic supervisors.
• The successful applicant agrees to produce an article for the SCS journal, The New Mosquito, a short piece for the Society’s website (the latter to be produced prior to the battlefield tour) and to deliver two short presentations whilst on the battlefield tour (subjects to be agreed with the SCS Chair).

Applying for the Bursary

• Application deadline: 1 May 2024.
• Applications should be 400 – 500 words in length and be submitted in English on the form available below.
• Applications will be assessed by a panel comprising the SCS Committee and invited SCS members. As part of the process, applicants may be invited to an informal online discussion with the panel.
• The judging panel is looking for a clear description of the candidate’s area of research and how it is an original contribution to the study of the campaign fought across Macedonia during the First World War
• The successful candidate will be notified by 24 May 2024.