Additional funds to support research training

Update 25 September 2024: We are currently reviewing our RTSG application process and are not accepting applications at this time. Applications will move to FlexiGrant from early October onwards and we will consider them on a rolling basis, please keep an eye on our website for updates.

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Please note that applications for activities taking place during the unfunded writing up year (CRS) 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.

Successful applicants will be required to submit a brief report when submitting the expenses claim for the Research Support Fund, the Research Extension and Placements Fund and the LAHP Impact, Engagement & Entrepreneurship Fund. Please email these reports to info.lahp@london.ac.uk

LAHP Research Support Fund (for awards up to £3000)

This fund supports LAHP AHRC-funded students engaging in activities related to their primary research. This covers:

Helping to meet expenses for UK or overseas study visits to archives, libraries, museums, or to carry out other fieldwork, as part of primary research;
Supporting students attending or presenting their research at conferences in the UK or overseas.
Funding specialist training needs in the exceptional cases where these cannot be met from within the LAHP partnership and where they are necessary for the successful completion of the doctoral project.

Students can apply for additional materials (eg art materials) that they have been unable to access elsewhere and that are essential for their research. You will need to demonstrate in your application that these books and/or other materials are essential for your research, and that you have had no other means but to buy them yourself in order to proceed with your research.

LAHP will fund a maximum total of £3,000 for any ony LAHP student during their studentship.

To apply for funding, please read the following guidelines carefully and complete the application form:

LAHP Research Support Fund Guidelines

LAHP Research Support Fund Application Form

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 Language Fund Guidelines

LAHP Language Fund Application Form

LAHP Research Extension Fund

This fund extends funding (fees and stipend) by up to six months per activity for those LAHP-funded students who can demonstrate 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.

To apply for funding, please read the following guidelines carefully and complete the application form:

LAHP Research Extension Fund Guidelines

LAHP Research Extension Fund Application Form

Please note, we now require students to submit their requests for planned extensions at least 6 months prior to their current funding end date.

As this is a new requirement, it does not apply to those with funding end dates on or before 31 January 2025. However, we ask that if your deadline is before 31 January 2025, you review the guidelines and submit any extension requests by 5pm on Thursday, 22 August 2024 where possible, so that we can make a decision on your application before your current funded period ends. Please note that we can only consider extension requests submitted before the current funding end date.

We will now consider applications for this fund on a rolling basis, and you can expect a decision within 15 working days of submission.

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.

LAHP Impact, Engagement & Entrepreneurship Fund

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 Impact, Engagement & Entrepreneurship Fund Guidelines

LAHP Impact, Engagement & Entrepreneurship Fund Application Form

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