Funding and Studentships
External sources
As a member of the Doctoral College, you have automatic access to Research Professional, an online database of research funding opportunities. It also provides a source of international research policy and practice news. You are free to browse the content of this site, create customised searches or use the pre-set searches on the Doctoral College page (see under Early Career Researchers) which have been set up to help you find external sources of funding for travel, study or early career fellowships. To log in, use the University account option and your Loughborough username and password.
Welfare Support bursaries available to the children, spouses, widows or widowers of chemists, grocers and commercial travellers. Value up to £5,000.
Postgrad Solutions Study bursaries worth £500 are available to students starting postgraduate courses.
Sir Thomas White Loan Charity loans are available to postgraduate students resident in Leicestershire and Rutland for the past three years. If you meet the criteria you can apply for an interest free loan of up to £6,000.
The Colt Foundation promotes and encourages research into social, medical and environmental problems created by commerce and industry. Awards cover UK/EU tuition fees and stipend. Overseas candidates can apply but would be expected to meet the difference in UK/EU and International rates.
The Reid Trust supports women educated in Britain who have appropriate academic qualifications and who wish to undertake further training or research in the United Kingdom, each year the Reid Trust makes six to ten awards of up to £1000 each.
PHD loans – The key details are:
- Loans up to £25,700
- available across all subjects
- intended to contribute towards the costs of your PhD
To be eligible you must be:
- a UK or EU national ordinarily resident in England or an EU student who meets certain criteria,
- aged 59 or under,
- accepted for PhD study at a UK university,
- not in receipt of Research Council funding.
Part-time students are also eligible to apply.
Repayment of the loan begins when your income is over a certain amount (the ‘threshold’ amount). The postgraduate loan repayment rate is 6% on earnings over the threshold amount, but this could be up to 15% if you have other student loans relating to undergraduate study.
Interest will be charged from the day you get the first payment.
For further information and details of how to apply, visit the Government Doctoral Loan website.
As a member of the Doctoral College, you have automatic access to Research Professional, an online database of research funding opportunities. It also provides a source of international research policy and practice news. You are free to browse the content of this site, create customised searches or use the pre-set searches on the Doctoral College page (see under Early Career Researchers) which have been set up to help you find external sources of funding for travel, study or early career fellowships. To log in, use the University account option and your Loughborough username and password.
Saïd Foundation Postgraduate scholarships are for young people from the Middle East at UK universities, to help them to become leaders of innovation and change in key sectors of development in their countries.
The Colt Foundation promotes and encourages research into social, medical and environmental problems created by commerce and industry. Awards cover UK/EU tuition fees and stipend. Overseas candidates can apply but would be expected to meet the difference in UK/EU and International rates.
The Academic Registry financial support pages detail information for students from the USA on how to obtain funding through the US Department of Education's Federal Loans programme.
The Reid Trust supports women educated in Britain who have appropriate academic qualifications and who wish to undertake further training or research in the United Kingdom, each year the Reid Trust makes six to ten awards of up to £1000 each.