Manuel Irujo Scholarship in Basque Studies

Applications are invited for one Manuel Irujo Scholarship in Basque Studies, to begin in September 2026.

The scholarship provides approximately £5,000 and can be awarded to students taking one of the following courses:

• Modern Languages and Cultures MRes (full fees at Home student rate covered)
• Translation MA
• Film Studies MA
• History MA
• Political Science and International Relations MA.

Subject areas

We await proposals related to the cultural production, the cultural history or the politics of the Basque Country.

In particular, we encourage projects on the areas of memory studies, exile/diaspora studies, and European/cosmopolitan studies, all of which remind us of the biography and lifeworld of Manuel Irujo.

Other possible focuses for study include:

• Memory and representation
• Migration and diaspora
• Transnational, postnational and postcolonial studies
• Popular culture
• Film and visual culture
• Literary studies
• Translation studies
• Digital culture
• Gender and sexuality
• History and politics.

We also welcome comparative or relational projects that create links between aspects of Basque society and culture and their manifestation in other cultural, national and/or linguistic areas.