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ESSE support schemes 2026

Here are the announcements for other regular support schemes available for ESSE members in 2026:

ESSE bursaries for both senior and junior scholars, for study trips: https://essenglish.org/bursaries-for-research-trips/. The deadline for application 1 February 2026.
ESSE bursaries for Gender studies within English studies, a relatively new category of bursary similar to the regular ones, introduced in 2022, and continued in 2023, 2024 and 2025: https://essenglish.org/bursaries-for-gender-studies/. The deadline for application 1 February 2026.
ESSE book and resources grant, the old support scheme which has recently been expanded to include not only books but other research resources as well: https://essenglish.org/book-and-resource-grants/. The deadline for application 1 May 2026.

All the announcements for various ESSE research support schemes for 2026 are now posted at the ESSE website https://essenglish.org/research-and-support/ while the general information about ESSE, including the ESSE conference in Santiago de Compostela is here: https://essenglish.org.

ESSE support schemes 2023

Here is the list of various support schemes that ESSE offers, all posted at https://essenglish.org/research-and-support/:

ESSE bursaries for both senior and junior scholars, for study trips: https://essenglish.org/bursaries-for-research-trips/. The deadline for application 1 March 2023.
ESSE bursaries for Gender studies within English studies, a new category of bursary similar to the regular ones, introduced in 2022, and continued in 2023: https://essenglish.org/bursaries-for-gender-studies/. The deadline for application 1 March 2023.
ESSE book and resources grant, the old support scheme which is now expanded to include not only books but other research resources as well:https://essenglish.org/book-and-resource-grants/. The deadline for application 1 May 2023.
ESSE collaborative project workshop scheme, for groups of researchers: https://essenglish.org/collaborative-project-scheme/. The deadline for application 31 March 2023.
ESSE Doctoral Symposium, for PhD students working on their dissertations: https://essenglish.org/doctoral-symposium/ . The deadline for application 15 February 2023.

There are also two support schemes for the national associations:

Conference plenary speaker support https://essenglish.org/conference-plenary-speaker-support/, to invite plenary speakers to their national associations’ conferences,
ESSE conference parallel speaker support https://essenglish.org/parallel-speaker-support/, to co- fund the trips of the parallel lecturers from national associations at the ESSE-17 conference in Lausanne.

The details of the various calls for participation for the ESSE-17 conference in Lausanne (26-30 August 2024) will be available in 2023 at https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/.