Opportunities
Discover the latest funding and other opportunities available to MAH PGRs.
Last updated: 15/11/2024
Developing impact pathways through creative practice research - Part I (Repeat).
Wed 20 Nov, 12.30-4pm, in-person: Silverstone SB302.
An interactive training session exploring how creative practice can bring about impactful research outcomes. Open to faculty and PGRs. All welcome.
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Call for Proposals: Sussex Digital Humanities Lab Seed Funding 24/25. Deadline Sat 30 Nov.
Applications are open to support the development of teams or networks to work on innovative research questions, methodologies, ideas, and approaches which broadly relate to our remit: critical digital humanities and archives; AI, computational society, and culture; experimental ecologies; and creative computing and play.
The thematic approach for this year's call is Data Justice. The call is open to researchers at Sussex regardless of discipline, contract type, or career level. Multidisciplinary teams are particularly encouraged.
Proposed projects should work towards preparing the groundwork for a proposal to be submitted for external funding in the medium to long term. This is a key criterion.
Deadline: 30 November. Find more details and how to apply.
Submissions open for 2024 Oxford Art Journal Essay Prize. Deadline Sun 1 Dec.
The annual Oxford Art Journal Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers launched in 2018, to coincide with the journal’s fortieth year of publication, and seeks to further enhance Oxford Art Journal’s international reputation for publishing innovative scholarship. The Essay Prize for Early Career Researchers aims to encourage submissions from British and international doctoral students, as well as early career researchers who are within five years of gaining their PhD.
The essay will be on any topic relevant to art history and should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (normally including footnotes) in length. The editors will review all submissions to select the Prize winner and will work with the successful candidate to advise on revision of the manuscript for publication. The journal and Oxford University Press will advise the Prize winner on securing image permissions and may be able to make a contribution to image costs.
The winner will receive:
- Publication of the winning essay in Oxford Art Journal
- £500 worth of Oxford University Press books
- A year’s free subscription to Oxford Art Journal
Other entries of sufficient quality may be invited to publish their submission in Oxford Art Journal.
Please about submission and the prize.
CHASE Dialogues: Culture and Migration, online event. 1.30-3pm, Fri 6 Dec.
is part of CHASE Dialogues, a discussion series foregrounding the significant roles the arts and humanities have played and continue to play in big discussions today.
How can storytelling be deployed as a tool to resist dehumanisation and participate in political critique? Can immersive performance decolonise discourse on culture and migration? What can experimental visual arts tell us about experiences of diaspora and migration? How can the spatial politics of music production affect shifting conceptions of identity? In what ways can the arts and humanities inform policy making on international migration?
Panellists will discuss how art and cultural production of various forms can affect representation, agency, resistance, celebration and politics in relation to migration and culture.
Find out more about CHASE Dialogues - Culture and Migration, and .
Apply now to New Generation Thinkers 2025. Deadline 4pm 28 Jan 2025.
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio.
If selected, you’ll also take part in learning and development opportunities with AHRC around working with the media, engaging the public with research and how to work with policy makers.
You’ll be an up-and-coming early career researcher with a passion for sharing ideas with the largest possible audience.
In addition to ECRs, this opportunity is open to those currently studying for their first PhD and having made considerable progress on their research, for example within one year of submission.
Find more information about eligibility and how to apply on the UKRI .
Please contact Anne-Fay Townsend, Business Partnerships Manager (Innovation & Business Partnerships) via A.Townsend@sussex.ac.uk if you would like support with your application.
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 AVÊÓƵ 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.