Postgraduate funding in the School of Music, English & Theatre
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Explore funding opportunites for subjects in this School:
Music funding opportunities
Global Ethnic Majority Music Scholar’s Fee Waiver (MMus)
For further information, including details of how to apply, please visit the Global Ethnic Majority Music Scholars Fee Waiver page.
Sarah Caple Award (MA/MMus)
For further information, including details of how to apply, please visit the Sarah Caple Award page.
Jonathan W. Davies Memorial Award (MMus)
Students who have successfully completed the MMus Popular Music programme at Goldsmiths may be eligible for a £1,000 award to assist with expenditure. Applications are evaluated based on merit and financial need. To apply, please email the Music Office by early September. Applicants should provide a supporting statement that demonstrates their academic and musical achievements.
English funding opportunities
Fee waiver bursaries
We will be awarding a limited number of competitive fee waiver bursaries for English and Creative Writing students.
Students applying to the following MA programmes are eligible to apply for a limited number of 30% fee waivers*:
*NB: These MA fee-waiver bursaries will be in addition to the Goldsmiths Excellence and Alumni fee-waivers.
Overseas students may apply for these fee waivers but should note that the value of each award will be equal to the fees applicable for home/EU students. Exclusions and adjustments based on other awards held may apply.
Find out more and apply for an English and Creative Writing's MA Fee Waiver Bursary.
Up to an equivalent of two full-time fee waivers for full-time and/or part-time MPhil/PhD students, for the academic session 2024 - 25.
Applications from students working in any field of creative writing, literary criticism, linguistics and translation are welcome. All other things being equal, the School may give preference, in the case of one of the bursaries, to high-quality applications focussing on literature before 1830.
Applicants for these fee waivers must have formally applied for entry to the MA or MPhil/PhD programmes (application links can be found on the relevant programme pages) and must include with their application two academic referees.
Overseas students as well as home/EU students may apply for the fee waivers, but should note that the value of each award will be equal to the fees applicable for home/EU students. Students in receipt of AHRC funding for the same programme may not apply. Exclusions and adjustments based on other awards held may also apply.
Find out more and apply for an MPhil/PhD fee waiver bursary.
Up to an equivalent of one full-time fee waiver, which might take that form or the form of up to two part-time fee waivers, for the academic session 2024 - 25.
Current students should include a covering letter, CV and a supporting statement from their current supervisor.
Current MPhil/PhD students now holding, or having held, fee waivers may re-apply for these awards, as appropriate. Students on completion or continuation status are not eligible to apply.
Find out more and apply for a MPhil/PhD fee waiver bursary.
Additional support for current students
As well as substantial research funding to present research papers at conferences, a number of bursaries will be made available annually to support research students' training and development activities (such as studying a language or training in a particular software necessary for a project).
Attendance to specialist advanced summer schools is also generously supported. We have an affiliation to, and support participation in
- The Samuel Beckett Summer School in Dublin (this bursary is awarded jointly by the School and Goldsmiths)
In recent years we have also supported attendance to:
- The International T. S. Eliot Summer School in London
- The Synapsis European School for Comparative Studies in Pontignano, Siena, Italy;
- The James Joyce Summer School in Dublin;
- The Trieste James Joyce Summer School in Trieste, Italy;
- A writing ashram of the Berlin University of the Arts
- Language courses
Theatre & Performance funding opportunities
Student Project Fund
(£50 to £500)
The Theatre and Performance Student Project Fund is designed to support our undergraduate and postgraduate students’ independent creative initiatives particularly those which take place outside the university, for example at festivals and external venues. The awards assist any student, or group of students, in a theatre or performance-related project. Students in the past have used the fund to help them take work out into professional and community contexts and to showcasing opportunities.
We view extra-curricular work as a key learning opportunity for our student community. In addition to enabling students to experiment, innovate and develop their own artistic practice in wider contexts, these awards also facilitate significant personal and professional development and support significant connections with, and entry into, the theatre and cultural industries in the UK and abroad. We have a rich history of exciting and innovative student projects that have been awarded by the scheme.
Three awards are made each year:
- Studio Gold – autumn term
- Spring Sites and Encounters – spring term
- Summer Festivals and Forays – summer term
To make an application, please see the criteria, information pack, guidance notes, and application form available on the Student Project Fund page of the VLE. The Student Project Fund is chaired by Francesca Greatorex.
For more information, please contact Theatre & Perofrmance at Goldsmiths.
Graduate Project Fund
(£50 to £500)
The Theatre and Performance Graduate Project Fund is designed to support our graduating students’ independent creative initiatives.
The fund assists a student or group of students who have recently graduated from Theatre & Performance programmes at Goldsmiths in a theatre or performance-related project. For its first year, this Project Fund will be open to students who have graduated within the past three years. The scheme is an extension of the Student Project Fund, which for some years has with great success supported students taking their work out into professional and community environments.
For more information, please contact Theatre & Performance at Goldsmiths.
Alumni and Friends fund
Do you have a project, idea, club, society, or an area of extracurricular work that requires financial support? If so, then the Alumni and Friends Fund could help you.
The Students’ Union is taking the reins of the Alumni and Friends Fund. Still supported by the generosity of alumni and friends, applications for funding will now be made to the Students’ Union. Students are eligible to apply for funding to be disbursed twice a year – at the beginning of the autumn and spring terms.
Please contact the Societies Coordinator at the Students’ Union for more information.
Associate Artist Awards
(£500 plus in-kind support)
The Associate Artist/s Award recognizes outstanding success in the final year major production module (DTA, PPS, C&S and MT) and takes into account the applicants’ track record of practical work over three years of the BA Theatre and Performance programme. The Associate Artists, who can be a group or an individual, receive a bursary and are nurtured in their first year after graduation from Goldsmiths. The bursary can be used for research and development, technical and resource support, outreach, mentoring, business development or on other agreed strategies to enhance the award-holders’ transition into the industry. Associate Artists are expected in return to undertake outreach work supporting Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths. This may entail assisting with events or activities that promote the School (such as Open Days) and other work that will be negotiated with the Award-holders in advance. The award is recognised by HEAR.
For details and information on how to Apply, please contact Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.
Associate Black Artist Awards
The Associate Black Artist Awards recognize outstanding success of a Black student or students in the final year major production module (DTA, PPS, C&S and MT) and takes into account the applicants’ track record of practical work over three years of the BA Theatre and Performance programme. Please see description above for details.
For more details and information on how to Apply, please contact Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.
Associate Researcher Award
(£500 to assist in research-related activities – e.g. conference fees, research travel expenses)
The Associate Researcher Award recognises a student’s outstanding academic track record and exceptional work on their Dissertation. The award-holders will be mentored and supported in their postgraduate research. Associate Researchers are expected in return to act as writing and research mentors for undergraduates. This may entail assisting with events or activities that promote a research culture among students and will be agreed in advance. The award is recognised by HEAR.
For more details and information on how to Apply, please contact Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.
Associate Black Researcher Award
The Associate Black Researcher Award recognises a Black TaP student’s outstanding academic track record and their exceptional work on the Dissertation. The award-holders will be mentored and supported in their postgraduate research. Associate Researchers are expected in return to act as writing and research mentors for undergraduates. This may entail assisting with events or activities that promote a research culture among students and will be agreed in advance. The award is recognised by HEAR.
For more details and information on how to Apply, please contact Marie-Gabrielle Rotie.