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This is probably a waste of time as terms and conditions of different studentships are likely to be different, but as I don't want to bug the finance office/the lovely postgrad secretary of my dept at this silly time of year I thought I'd bring my question to the boards....
Do studentships increase annually? The (departmental) studentship I received last year for the first year of my MPhil/PhD was £9,500 plus research expenses, whereas the ones that are being advertised for this coming academic year are £12,300!! Am I in line for a rise too, or is it my bad that I started 2005/2006?
I don't mind not being rich, but it's tricky to survive with £9.5k in London, even with my admin job for pocket money.....
Cheers folks
Do studentships increase annually? The (departmental) studentship I received last year for the first year of my MPhil/PhD was £9,500 plus research expenses, whereas the ones that are being advertised for this coming academic year are £12,300!! Am I in line for a rise too, or is it my bad that I started 2005/2006?
I don't mind not being rich, but it's tricky to survive with £9.5k in London, even with my admin job for pocket money.....
Cheers folks
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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/InformationForStudents/default.htm
It's not bad really... Especially if you consider stipend is tax tree and if your tutition fees are cover too then it's like earning an equivalent of ~£19k (25% tax/N.I. and ~£3k tution fees).
Sophia are you a PhD student too?
Cheers, I just wanted to know what others' experience of this are, as Sheffield's not the best at communication and I expect I won't find out until I go along to register.
Sophia - yes it would be easier to give them a buzz, but that won't change whatever the answer is, so I'll give them an easy life and let it be a surprise next month! If Scary Monster's experience is anything to go by I won't get the £12.3k, but hey...I was just living in hope that the uni may have decided to put everything up to research council levels
It is a bit annoying that I wasn't told anything about how it works. I'm hoping that they learn to do BACs this year (last year I had to travel up to Sheffield to collect the cheque each quarter and if I was in town a couple of days early to see my supervisor or whatever, they couldn't print it out early, despite the date on the cheque being printed) and have been told nothing about whether the amount stays the same, rises with inflation or whatever. Heigh ho!
ETA: My money comes directly from the history department; I have no idea whether their money in turn comes from AHRC or not (possibly because that's the research council it's linked with: I got my AHRC grant application rejected though) but the studentship's well below AHRC levels, even for outside London. I'd be screwed if I didn't work part time.
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/search_results.asp?institution=128
Thanks for the list: I doubt it was part of a project grant though as the competition wasn't restricted in subject-matter.
Although I was disturbed to see that someone had been given a hefty grant to research 'The Music of Bjork' :eek2: I'm sure my research on the growth of communities in post-WW2 German refugee camps is much more worthy of funding :grump: