Funding and Fees

Funding Opportunities

 

Departmental bursaries

The Department of Classics and Ancient History offers a package of Departmental Bursaries for MA or PhD study, ranging from fees-only bursaries, to fees and partial maintenance grants. These are offered on a competitive basis for 2012-2013.

How to apply

In order to be considered you must first submit an application for postgraduate study to the University. The on-line form can be found here.

There is no application form for the Departmental bursaries. Applicants for the taught MA must submit a covering letter and a cv; applicants for the MA by research or the MPhil/PhD must submit a covering letter, a 500-word research proposal, and a cv to Dr Zahra Newby, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

DEADLINE FOR 2012: Thursday 5th April 2012.

Awards of departmental bursaries in 2011/12 were made to the following students:

Rebecca Taylor (PhD, fees & stipend); Ghislaine van der Ploeg (PhD, fees & stipend); Madeleine Burrows (MA, R - fees); Clara Hiskey (MA, R - fees); Aileen Das (PhD, fees); Kate Beats (PhD, fees)

AHRC Funding

Congratulations to Ersin Hussein for her award of an AHRC Block Grant Partnership PhD studentship in Classics (supervisor: Dr Alison Cooley).

University Funding Opportunities

Home/EU and Overseas applicants for MPhil/PhD programmes can apply for one of the University of Warwick's Chancellor's Scholarships. For further details, visit this page. Those wishing to begin a PhD in October 2012 must apply for admission and funding by 31st January 2012.

Congratulations to Elena Marchis for gaining a WPRS Scholarship for a PhD starting 2011 (supervisor: Prof. Kevin Butcher).

International students: The University offers some fees awards for MA Taught and MA Research degrees for International students. If you would like to be nominated for one of these, please contact the Department. Further details on funding for International students can be found on the Graduate School website and the web site of the International Office.

Further advice on current fees and funding schemes can be found here.

Before submitting any application for funding you must have already applied to the University. Advice on applications can be found here. The on-line form can be found here.

For existing postgraduate students, the Department has modest sums available to help postgraduate students to attend UK conferences and for travel within the UK for study. For an application form and more information, click here.

Warwick postgraduate students working on Medieval, Renaissance or Early Modern topics may apply for funding to attend selected graduate training seminars at the Newberry Library in Chicago or to undertake research in the Newberry’s rich collections. Applications must be made through Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.

The Newberry Library’s own Center for Renaissance Studies (founded in 1979) serves an international public of scholars through the use of the library’s internationally renowned collections in the late medieval and early modern periods, through to the Napoleonic age. The Center is organized as an international consortium of 47 universities that contribute to its administration and the planning of a range of research and advanced (graduate and post-doctoral) skills training programmes. Warwick is currently one of three UK institutions to be a member of the Consortium of the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies.
Faculty members (i.e. academic staff) and graduate students at Consortium institutions can apply for funds (known as “Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grants”) to participate in Center for Renaissance Studies programs or to conduct research on medieval, Renaissance, or early modern topics at the Newberry Library.
Thanks to a reciprocal arrangement funds may also be available for programs and research at the Folger Institute in Washington, DC (“Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant for seminar participation/research at the Folger Institute”).
Applications go through the faculty representative in the Consortium institution; in Warwick, you should write to the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (in 2009-10, Dr Ingrid De Smet). Postgraduate applicants should first discuss their plans with their supervisors.