Funding

Below you’ll find resources related to academic funding for scholars at various stages of their academic careers, ranging from graduate students to full-time professors.

Where available, we include resources and opportunities that are directed specifically at scholars of colour.

UK Graduate Funding for Scholars of Colour:

• Open Future Bursaries for BAME students (Undergraduate)

• College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Masters Excellence Scholarship at the University of Leicester (Masters)

• MA Black Humanities Scholarship for Teachers at the University of Bristol (Masters)

• British Society for the History of Science MA History of Science, Technology, or Medicine (MA)

• Wellcome Master’s Studentship in Humanities and Social Science (MA)

• Society for Renaissance Studies Scholars of Colour MA Bursary (MA)

• Black Heart Foundation Scholarship Programme (for economically disadvantaged students) (Masters and PhD)

• Birkbeck Studentships (PhD)

• Windsor-Fellowship/UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship (PhD) for Pakistani/Bangladeshi/Black Students (PhD)

• Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Scholarship (Various Levels of Study)

• Stuart Hall Foundation CHASE AHRC Studentship (PhD)

UK Graduate Funding (General):

• London Arts & Humanities Partnership (PhD)

• British Federation of Women Graduates (PhD, Supplementary Funding)

• Funds for Women Graduates (PhD)

• Royal Historical Society Marshall Fellowship (PhD, 1 Year Funding)

• Institute of Historical Research Early Career Research Fellowships (PhD and Post-Doctoral, Partial Funding)

• Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Programme (PhD)

• The Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities (PhD)

• Edinburgh College of Art PhD Scholarships (PhD)

• Chase AHRC Student Internships (PhD)

• Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships (PhD)

International Funding:

• Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentships (PhD, UK Students, Study Abroad)

• Chevening Scholarship (International Students applying to the UK, MA)

• Commonwealth Scholarship (International Students from the Commonwealth applying to the UK, MA and PhD)
  

Short Research Fellowships:

• Huntington Library Short-term and Long-term Research Fellowships

• Newberry Library Short-term Fellowships

• Folger Institute Research Fellowships (Non-residential)

• Society for Renaissance Studies/British School at Rome Residential Doctoral Scholarship

• Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Short Term Residencies

Early Career Postdoctoral Funding: 

• Leverhulme Trust Fellowships

• Philip Leverhulme Early Career Prizes

• Society for Renaissance Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History

• Royal Historical Society Early Career Fellowship Grant

• Wellcome Trust Early Career Awards

• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

• AHRC Research, Development, and Engagement Fellowships

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie European and Global Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Wellcome Early Career Awards

See Also: 

• Society for Renaissance Studies List of Sources of Funding - Includes Opportunities for Research Grants, Fellowships, Conference Funding, Graduate Funding

• SAA News Grants and Awards

General Graduate Funding Guidance: 

• “How to Get Funding for your Arts and Humanities Postgrad”, The Guardian

• “PhD Funding Guide”, findaphd.com

• “Applying for PhD Funding”, findaphd.com

• “Three Questions You Should Expect to Ask Yourself While Self-Funding a PhD”, Cambridge Researcher

• “Options for Working While Studying”, Jobs.ac.uk

• “How to Fund a PhD in the UK if You Can’t Afford to Do It Yourself”, Topuniversities.com

• “Fellowships and Funding for Postdocs and Early Career Researchers in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences”, Cambridge University

• “Opportunities for Doctoral Students”, UKRI AHRC

Research Grants Guidance:

• “Research funding: 10 tips for writing a successful application”, The Guardian

• “How to Win a Research Grant”, Times Higher Education

• “Writing a Successful Funding Application in the Arts and Humanities” by David Gauntlett, Funding Insight

• “How to Write a Successful Humanities Grant”, Grant Training Centre

• How to Get Grant Money in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Yale University Press, 2019), by Raphael Brewster Folsom

• Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals (Routledge, 2018), by Barbara L. E. Walker and Holly E. Unruh

• Applying for Humanities Research Funding - Florida State University Presentation

• The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need (5th Edition, 2019), by Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox