Additional funds and extensions to support research training
Updated on 4 August 2025
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Additional funds
IMPORTANT: Temporary Pause on LAHP Funding Applications from 8th September 2025
Please note that LAHP will pause all applications for the following funding schemes from 8th September to 30th September 2025:
- Research Training Support Grant (RTSG)
- Engagement Provision (EP)
- Research Extension Fund (REF)
This pause is to allow for the implementation of a new application process, which will launch on 1st October 2025. Full details of the updated process will be shared in the September LAHP Student Newsletter.
If you wish to have an application processed before the pause, please ensure it is submitted by midnight on 7th September 2025. All applications submitted by this deadline will be processed within the usual timeframe.
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LAHP-funded students may request funds to support their core research and development needs. There are two funds available:
- Research Training Support Grant (RTSG)
- Engagement Provision (EP) – Incorporating the previous Impact, Engagement and Entrepreneurship (IEE) and Language Funds (LF)
Details of both are available below.
Students should read the LAHP expenses guidance carefully before applying for funds. Requests must be made in advance of expenditure. See the LAHP fund application process flowchart for the application process.
All expenditure must be in line with the LAHP guidance and the AHRC Training Funding Guide.
Please note that applications for activities taking place or for expenditure incurred outside of the funded period cannot be accepted, even if submitted prior to your funding end date.
Payment of expenses claims
Due to some recurring technical issues with the UCL External Visitor Expenses (EVE) system, we have made the decision to revert to the manual UCL Visitor Expense Exception form to process student expenses for those LAHP students not registered at UCL.
UCL LAHP students are still asked to submit their expense claims via the UCL iExpenses system. If you have not claimed any expenses from LAHP yet but have got fund requests approved, please send your UPI to info.lahp@ucl.ac.uk so you can be given access to the relevant account code.
LAHP Research Training Support Grant (RTSG)
This fund supports LAHP AHRC-funded students engaging in activities related to their primary research. This covers:
- expenses for UK or overseas study visits to archives, libraries, museums, or to carry out other fieldwork, as part of primary research;
- attending or presenting students’ research at conferences in the UK or overseas.
- Additional materials (e.g. art materials) that students are unable to access elsewhere and that are essential for their research. Students will need to demonstrate in their application that these books and/or other materials are essential for their research, and that they have had no other means but to buy them in order to proceed with their core research.
This fund is a pooled fund i.e. not a specific amount per student, and is allocated based on research needs. LAHP expects that the total expenditure for any one student will not go over £3,000 during their studentship.
To apply for funding, please read the LAHP expenses guidelines carefully and complete the application form via FlexiGrant, linked below. We consider applications on a rolling basis and you can expect an outcome within 15 working days.
Students with disabilities who need adjustments to the application process should contact us on info.lahp@london.ac.uk and we can advise on alternative methods of applying.
You can find below a preview of the RTSG application form for reference.
As part of the application, you will need to invite your supervisor as collaborator, so they can submit their supporting statement. You can do this via the summary page of your application, under the ‘Participants’ tab. Please note that your supervisor will be able to see all details on your application.
LAHP Engagement Provision
The Engagement Provision will incorporate the below LAHP Language Fund and LAHP Impact, Engagement, Entrepreneurship Fund.
The Engagement Provision may support the additional costs associated with students taking up engagement and development activities. These additional costs could be travel and subsistence costs associated with undertaking a placement or engaging with an external collaborator (excluding CDA). It could also include fees charged for training courses (including language) that are associated with student development and are not available via the consortium’s provisions.
Applications will move to FlexiGrant, similarly to RTSG. We expect to complete this over the Summer. Until then, please use the below Word forms for LF and IEE.
LAHP Language Fund
This fund supports LAHP AHRC-funded students by providing them with opportunities to undertake language training, whether as essential research-related language acquisition or as skills enhancing the employability of students. This includes both modern languages and ancient languages that are not part of the LAHP language training programme (English language training cannot be supported by this fund).
LAHP assumes that normally individual language funding applications will not exceed £500.
To apply for funding, please read the following guidelines carefully and complete the application form:
LAHP Impact, Engagement & Entrepreneurship Fund
This fund offers current second and third year LAHP funded students the opportunity:
- to develop and evaluate the impact of their research;
- to develop their engagement with community and other public audiences and partners;
- to fund small ‘start-up’ grants to develop a research-related idea into a saleable product and/or to develop a digital project from their research.
- to develop and implement their own innovative approaches and schemes, which if successful, will be added to our portfolio of future cohort-development activities made available to the cohort as a whole.
Non-HEI partners working with LAHP can also apply for funding under this scheme to assist with cohort building or other development activities for LAHP students.
Students can apply for a maximum of £600 from this fund in Year 2 or 3 of their programme.
To apply for funding, please read the following guidelines carefully and complete the application form:
LAHP Research Extension Fund
UKRI expects projects to be designed and supervised in a way that enables students to submit their thesis within their funded period i.e. by their funding end date.
Students may be eligible to apply for an extension of up to six months (full-time or equivalent) per type of activity to their funded period based on research needs. Students must demonstrate in their application that they require further time due to skills acquisition, complex methodology, a change to their project or taking up a placement.
We may be able to consider applications in circumstances not listed here. Please contact us to discuss this but note that LAHP can only grant extensions on the basis of research need, not illness or personal circumstances.
We require students to submit their requests for planned extensions at least 6 months prior to their current funding end date. Any requests submitted after the current funding end date will not be considered. The maximum total length of funding we may offer is 4 years (excluding any paid leave).
We consider extension applications on a rolling basis, and you can expect a decision within 15 working days of submission.
To apply for funding, please read the following guidelines carefully and complete the application form:
Please note that as per the rules of the AHRC IPS award (International fellowships for doctoral and early career researchers), you will not be eligible to apply for an extension for the purpose of this fellowship.