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Funding for current research postgraduates

The Graduate School has a number of funding opportunities of its own which are open to current postgraduate students or research staff at the University to support development opportunities including conference attendance, travel to centres of excellence and the development of innovative new training provision.

None of the Graduate School travel prizes/awards are given retrospectively.  The conference/travel date must be after the deadline of your chosen travel prize.

All travel prize/award applications must be submitted by hard copy or in MS Word or PDF format to the  nominated email address for the relevant prize.  It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure the correct format is used.

Travel Prize

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The Graduate School Travel Prize supports travel to a conference to present a research paper, or to visit another institute to use essential resources.

The HEA operates a UK Travel Fund for both research staff and students and the Graduate School provides funding to research staff through the Research Staff Travel Prize

 

BESTS

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The Building Experience and Skills Travel Scholarship (BESTS) funds a visit of up to two months at a host organisation anywhere in the world.

 

U21 Collaborative Awards

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The Universitas 21 Prize Scholarship (U21) award can be used to help fund a month of collaborative work at a partner Universitas21 university.

 

 


Researcher-Led Bids

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Funding for researchers to develop their own innovative projects to enhance their own and other researchers' professional development.
Find out how you can make a researcher-led bid.

 

Other funding sources

Disabled Students Allowance

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If you have a disability, ongoing health condition, mental-health condition or specific learning difficulties you can apply for a DSA to give you extra financial support you need. Contact the Disability Adviser for postgraduate students for more information.

 

Useful links

Alternative Funding Guide

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This guide details how to find and apply to alternative sources of funding which make awards to current and prospective graduate students.

It was written by two postgraduate students who between them have won over £45,000 from 55 different charity awards. It contains model personal and financial statements, and over 300 links to voluntary sector funding sources.

To download a copy of this guide, please visit http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/graduateschool/form

 

Other sources of funding information

  • The Alternative guide to postgraduate funding 2012-13 is a unique guide to winning grants from charitable organisations which make awards to current and prospective postgraduates, regardless of course or nationality.
  • Our online Postgraduate Prospectus allows you to search for the postgraduate course you are interested in and find out about any funding available to support your studies.
  • TargetCourses is an online resource used by Universities to advertise their Scholarships and funding schemes.
  • Prospects - a searchable database plus information on scholarships, bursaries, research councils and a useful video that covers the main funding schemes and explains how students can undertake postgraduate study.
  • Turn-2-us - Information about benevolent funds, grants and charitable trusts.  
  • Association of Charitable Foundations - information about grant making trusts and charitable organisations.
 

 

 

The Graduate School

The University of Nottingham
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University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Tel: +44 (0) 115 846 8400

Text: 07786209140 Email: graduate-school@nottingham.ac.uk