Opportunities

Discover the latest funding and other opportunities available to MAH PGRs.

Last updated: 06/05/2025

PGR Allotment Volunteers wanted! 

Are you green-fingered or keen to try your hand at growing stuff? We would love to have some PGRs from MAH join the small team of staff who tend the allotment (MAH-lotment!) in the Silverstone Garden on campus. We have six small raised beds and a variety of seeds, compost and gardening tools at our disposal, and in previous years we have grown a variety of fruits, vegetables and wildflowers. It’s a very informal space and no previous horticultural skills are required!  

If you would like to find out more, please get in touch with Assistant Research Manager, Laura Vellacott (L.Vellacott@sussex.ac.uk). 

CHASE Cohort Development Fund. Deadline 6 June.

CHASE has now opened its annual call for Cohort Development Fund training calls for CHASE faculty members and Research Networks.

The application deadline for these calls is 6 June.

  1. For staff at CHASE institutions - 
  2. For CHASE research network funding (staff and PGRs can both apply) - 

 

Call for participants for Otherfield Festival, 1 - 3 August

We are hoping to run a Sussex Screen at the Otherfield Festival in Laughton (near Ringmer) from 1-3 August, showing documentary work from staff and students at Sussex and possibly emerging filmmakers from the region and feature research-related workshops. This is a well-established, informal and important community-facing event. If you have a completed film or rough cut that you would like to have considered, please get in touch with Lizzie Thynne with the following information:
Title:
Director/Crew:
Running time:
50 word description:
Are you able to attend the festival 1 - 3 August? Y/N
Are you willing to help with the festival? Y/N
If you do not have a film to show but would like to help with the festival, please also get in touch, even if you are just assisting for a day. thank you. We would also be interested in hearing about other documentaries made locally or through the university that you would like to suggest
, and email Lizzie Thynne to participate.

Media, Arts and Humanities PGR Fund

The Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities has a small budget to help postgraduate researchers with funding research costs. The purpose of the fund is to fund key activities in line with the Faculty’s PGR strategy and to support PGRs with funding individual research costs. The maximum amount of funding which a MAH PGR can apply for over the course of the financial year (1st August - 31st July) is £200.   

 

To request funding please complete the  and send the completed form to MAH-pgr@sussex.ac.uk. We aim to confirm funding within two weeks of the application being submitted. 

Sussex Fund Doctoral Overseas Conference Grants

Sussex Fund Doctoral Overseas Conference Grants support ÃûæÂÖ±²¥ PGRs who are presenting their work at an overseas conference.  You can apply for a maximum of £1,100 during the period of your PhD registration, and can apply more than once up to the funding limit. From November 2022, an additional £100 above the £1,100 maximum will be available to go towards visa costs, where you require a visa to travel.

The scheme is administered by the Researcher Development team within the Sussex Researcher School, who are able to offer this scheme thanks to a generous grant from the . To apply, please complete the . Applications must be submitted at least four weeks before the conference start date. 

Ensure you read the guidance notes and conditions of the award before submitting an application, to increase the likelihood of a successful award.