There are three types of AHRB Postgraduate studentships:
(a) Research Preparation Master's Scheme - this scheme will support students undertaking Master's courses that focus on advanced study and research training explicitly intended to provide a foundation for further research at doctoral level. Awards will normally be for one year full-time or two years part-time.
(b) Professional Preparation Master's Scheme - this scheme will support students undertaking Master's or Postgraduate Diploma courses that focus on developing high-level skills and competencies for professional practice. Awards will be for one year for full-time study or two years for part-time study.
(c) Doctoral Competition - for doctoral study up to three years full-time or five years part-time.
Awards in all three schemes are allocated in open competition. Applications should be submitted through the department at which you wish to study, before the closing date of 3 May 2005.
Provides up to £500,000 for up to five years, to substantial research projects, which may involve some teamwork. Funding for research students is now also available through this scheme as academic members of staff may include in their application the cost of supporting postgraduate students who are undertaking work which contributes to the research project. Also funding to enable hosted visits to HEIs from libraries, archives, museums, theatres or similar from the UK and beyond, to undertake research activity.
Provides up to £5,000 to meet the direct costs of research projects, including such items as travel, maintenance and consumables.
Provides funding for research leave of three or four months to enable the completion of significant research projects. The period funded by the AHRB must be matched by a preceding period funded by the institution.
Provides support for the appointment of full-time practice-based research fellows for up to three years.
From September 2004, the Innovation Awards will no longer run as a separate competition and will be incorporated with the existing Research Grants scheme under the route for speculative research.
Provides up to £300,000 for up to three years in order to strengthen, or make more accessible, important resources and collections by improving their utilisation and accessibility.
(funded by the AHRB, Arts Council England & the Scottish Arts Council)
Provides awards of up to £38,000 to enable practising artists to spend time in a science and/or engineering environment.
These initiatives aim to advance research in defined areas of intellectual urgency, including the ICT in Arts and Humanities Research programme, the AHRB/ESRC Cultures of Consumption programme and the AHRB/EPSRC Designing for the 21st Century programme.
For more detailed information on schemes, strategic initiatives and financial arrangements please see the AHRB website at http://www.ahrb.ac.uk/ or contact The Arts and Humanities Research Board at Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol, BS1 2AE (tel. 0117 987 6500; fax 0117 987 6600).