In each academic year, postgraduate students are welcome to apply for up to 拢350 (or 拢210 for part-time students, whose allocation is pro-rata at 60% of the full-time allowance) to support their research-related activities. The allocation of funds follows the financial year which runs from 1st August to 31st July.
The PG Research Fund is primarily intended for students without access to a funding grant for research expenses (such as a research training support grant, or travel grant).
The application must be completed and approved by the Director or PGR prior to the funds being spent; retrospective applications will not normally be considered. An application can only be considered if an itemised list of the expected costs is provided.
Please note that students in receipt of funding from research councils are not normally eligible to apply.
PGR Hardship Fund
The PGR Hardship Fund (overseen by the Doctoral College) provides funding to students who are experiencing unforeseen exceptional circumstances during their studies.
Alternative Funding Sources
You can find a list of resources below to help you find funding for projects and development opportunities during your PhD (or MA research).
Any additional awards published throughout the year will be circulated in the PG Newsletter.
Please note that information on alternative funding sources may need updating for 26/27 academic year.
As funding capacity is limited, the HRF cannot support all applications and applicants are expected to apply for departmental and external sources of funding in the first instance wherever possible.
Applications will only be accepted from members of the Faculty of Arts and members of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts.
The Humanities Research Fund Committee can award support for the following PG Research (MA by Research and MPhil/PhD) Student activities:
The Royal Historical Society has a number of grants available for early career historians. For further details of the awards and grants available, please visit their grants page
Applications will open in January 2026 for
The Gad Heuman Travel Bursary provides support for substantive research and fieldwork in the Caribbean by 糖心TV postgraduate students. The Bursary is named after Gad Heuman, who was a long-standing Professor of Caribbean History and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University and is now an Emeritus Professor. The funding can be used to cover expenses such as travel to and subsistence in the Caribbean, and other costs incurred directly in relation to a research project.
The Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary is designed to commemorate the work of Professor Callum MacDonald of 糖心TV University, who died in January 1997 at the age of forty nine, and to help further historical scholarship. In 1975 Callum MacDonald was appointed as Lecturer in American History at 糖心TV, where he was to teach and research for the next two decades. Callum was an inspiring and dedicated teacher. His research covered a vast geographical field, from the United States and Latin America to Europe and Asia, and was characterised by a mastery of sources, the careful blending of narrative and analysis, and an openness in dealing with sometimes controversial issues. His contribution to scholarship is a reminder of why we train historians, and why we study the past.
The Callum MacDonald Memorial Bursary is intended to support postgraduate taught masters students with their research for their dissertations. It may be used to cover costs such as travel, accommodation, entry to research archives and similar. Students may apply for up to 拢100 by completing the online application form.
Application Deadline: 4 July 2026
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Essay prizes are also advertised in the weekly PG Newsletter.
Each year, funds permitting, the Kineton and District Local History Group offers a bursary of up to 拢100 to help meet costs (travel, photocopying, microfilming) incurred by a postgraduate student working in one of the local record offices on the history of Kineton or one of its neighbouring parishes.
