Financial Support

Many students begin their studies with only partial funding, or funding themselves. In such circumstances, it is often possible to secure further (or top-up) funding from a variety of sources, including the EU, Overseas Research Students awards, university bursaries, etc. Your supervisor will be able to give you guidance about where to look for such funding opportunities, and assistance in completing applications.

In addition, you may incur exceptional costs during your research, for instance in attending conferences or doing field work away from York. Your supervisor may be able to give advice about seeking funding to cover such costs, and any School allocation available to support graduate attendance at conferences or training sessions.

For the period of registration each full-time solely Management School registered PhD student will be given a one-off endowment of £750 to cover these costs (please note, however, that this sum is currently under review and may be changed during the time of your programme). This amount is a budgetary maximum upper limit and applies to the whole period of registration. This comprises funds for ongoing research activities, such as books, data gathering costs, travel, workshops, inter library loans and small extra conferences, etc. The student has budget responsibility for the expenditure.

In many cases, particularly as PhD students approach the final phases of their research, conference attendance for the purposes of presenting research can be highly beneficial. The School will therefore consider sympathetically bids for funding from PhD students taking into account the following circumstances, for which a limited budget is normally available:

• The student has the support of their supervisor(s), especially where presenting a jointly written paper with their supervisor.

• The student has made satisfactory academic progress. Normally this will include satisfactory annual progression.

• The student has the written support of the Director of Postgraduate Research

• The intended conference is judged appropriate and of sufficient merit by the Director of Research.

• The application conforms to the general guidelines for conference funding (set out below).

The School will usually consider attendance at one conference as the norm for the period of study for a PhD. In some circumstances, students may be requested to consider using other sources to fund partially or fully their conference activities. Bids should be fully and accurately costed, and include the following detailed on the appropriate form:

• Brief details of the conference including dates.

• Estimate of expenses, broken down into main headings e.g. travel, conference fee accommodation, etc.

• Title of the paper being presented. If you have submitted a paper or an abstract, please let the Research Director have a copy with the application. In the former case, you might want to consider submitting it to our Discussion Paper series.

Use Endowment Claim Form to claim back pre-authorised expenses you have incurred whilst attending the conference.