Alternative Sources of Postgraduate Funding

Training Organisation: GradFunding

Delivery: Online

Programme Description:

Are you a current PhD or PGR student who needs extra funding for fees, living expenses, research, conference or 4th year PhD writing-up costs? Have you been adversely affected financially by the Covid-19 Coronavirus?

If the answer is 'yes', then considering attending this webinar!

It's all about funding from unusual places you probably haven't heard of! As well as explaining the more 'usual' postgraduate funding options available, it's mainly about alternative grant-making bodies in Britain: principally charities, trusts, and foundations.

Charities and trusts are seldom used by students, but often make grants regardless of subject, course, or nationality. They are an excellent - but underrated - funding option. Especially for humanities students, who generally have less funding opportunities.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to: identify the appropriate alternative funding bodies for you, find them via books and the internet, and apply strongly and correctly.

The workshop is based on an award-winning resource called the 'Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding' that all participants will be granted a free subscription to (www.postgraduate-funding.com)!

The workshop will be delivered by Dr. Luke Blaxill, who won 45 separate grants from charities and trusts as a postgraduate student and whose story has been featured in several national newspapers and on TV.

Learning Outcomes:

* Identify (often obscure) alternative grant making bodies: charities, foundations, and trusts. These can help you fund your PhD fees, maintenance, fourth year, research, travel, and conference costs. These can often be obscure or unexpected, such as being based on where you live, the trade or profession of your parents, as well as subject of study.

* Find alternative funding bodies using the internet, books, and the Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding web resource.

* Apply to alternative funders strongly and correctly. You'll learn how to present yourself, and your research, in ways which will appeal to funders which are often not part of the general university grant making constellation and require a unique approach.