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.

For staff at CHASE institutions - Call for training proposals
For CHASE research network funding (staff and PGRs can both apply) - Call for research network funding proposals

The British School at Rome invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowship schemes:

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Leverhulme Trust International Fellowships

The deadline for the submission of expressions of interest is Friday 13 June 2025.

Potential candidates are asked to check the eligibility requirements of the scheme they are interested in. Those interested should send a CV, a list of publications and an outline of the proposed research (no more than 2 pages) to research@bsrome.it. Where appropriate, potential candidates are welcome to send a separate statement of any circumstances that may have impacted their research. Candidates selected by the School will be contacted directly by the Research Committee.

For any information, please contact research@bsrome.it.

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

Find more information about the event, and email Lizzie Thynne to participate.

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Fellowship Competition.

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2026-2029 fellowship competition. Applications are welcome for the following fellowships:

Two or three Open Fellowships in any discipline represented in the Society
One Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
One Fellowship in East Asian Studies

Applicants may be considered for more than one fellowship category pertinent to their research and teaching. The Society’s website provides additional details on the fellowships, eligibility, disciplines, and application dossier, and we recommend that applicants review this information before submitting an application.

Deadline to apply: Tuesday 5 August 2025

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.

Find more details including the Faculty’s Guidelines on eligible uses of the Faculty PGR Fund

To request funding please complete the Funding Request form 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 University of Sussex 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 Sussex Fund. To apply, please complete the online application form. 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.