Our PhD grant winners

The Western Front Association is proud to have supported postgraduate research into the First World War for many years. Each year, our PhD Grant Scheme helps emerging scholars to explore new perspectives, deepen knowledge, and share their work with a wider audience.

Below you can find details of our past winners and runners-up, with their research topics and home institutions.

Year	Winners of £2000	University	Topic
2024/25	Cameron Ward	Kent	Knowledge Networks: A Transnational Approach to Allied Coalition, Dynamics of the Great War
2024/25	Amy Tibble	Oxford	Art of the Sinai-Palestine Campaign of the Great War
2023/24	Beth Wyatt	Northumbria	Cultures of Care in Britain's Country House Hospitals, 1914-1919
2023/24	Srijita Pal	Southern Carolina	The War within the War: The 1918 influenza pandemic on the Western Front of the First World War

Winners (and recipients of £2,000)

Beth Wyatt (University of Northumbria) 'Cultures of Care in Britain’s Country House Hospitals, 1914-1919'
Srijita Pal (University of Southern California) 'The War within the War: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic on the Western Front of the First World War'

Runners Up (and recipients of £1,000)

Nicole Chicarelli (University of Birmingham) 'Photographic Technology and the Transformation of the British Army in the First World War, 1914-1918'
Patrick Taylor (Anglia Ruskin University) 'The Reintegration of shell-shocked men throughout Australia and Britain after the First World War'
Christopher Batten (University College London) 'Class and Civilian Internment in Britain and the Empire, 1914-1928'