Organiser: Royal Air Force Museum
Place and Date: Virtual, or onsite at the Royal Air Force Museum’s Midlands site. Dates and location TBC upon selection of applications.
Application Deadline: 23 January 2026.
Submission Type: Abstract, plus a biography and talk title.
Form of Submission: Abstract (Maximum 300 words in English) and Talk Title (no more than 70 characters). Biographies should be no more than 200 words.
Applications to be sent to: ResearchNews@rafmuseum.org
General Information:
The RAF Museum seeks proposals from postgraduate students, early-career and established researchers for our 2026 Research Lecture Programme. Lectures will be hosted online and the RAF Museum’s Midlands site, and will share new research being undertaken in the fields of Air Power, aviation history and histories of air forces. The lectures enable those interested in these fields of study to share their knowledge, and to highlight the interdisciplinary approaches and research methods being utilised.
The Museum’s 2026 Research Programme will examine Air Power in its broadest sense, encompassing the history of air warfare and the RAF as well as related fields such as archaeology, law and ethics, museology, international relations and strategic studies. Papers relating to the future direction of Air and Space Power are particularly welcome.
For online lectures, speakers have forty-five minutes to present; for lectures held in-person, speakers have up to one hour to present. Lectures will be followed by a question and answer section of 30 minutes. All lectures will also be streamed online via Crowdcast.
As part of the Museum’s ongoing commitment to encourage debate regarding Air Power and the history of the RAF, we also host research panels involving a series of shorter-talks followed by an open discussion.
If you are interested in delivering a lecture, or proposing a discussion panel, please send a lecture title, abstract and biography to the Museum’s Historian and Academic Access Manager Dr Megan Wang (ResearchNews@rafmuseum.org) by Friday 23 January 2026.
If you would like to informally discuss the opportunity of presenting a lecture, then you are warmly encouraged to contact the Museum’s Historian and Academic Access Manager.