Funding
Available funding for students and staff
There are many opportunities for students and staff to gain funding during their time at Newcastle for projects, research and as general financial support to help you through your studies with us. Please find below funding opportunities across all of our disciplines and more information on how to apply to them.
External Funding Opportunities
Leathersellers Company
Financial support for disadvantaged UG students
The British Federation of Women Graduates
Financial support for 3rd year female PhD students
Vegetarian Charity
Hardship and project support for vegetarians 25 years and younger
Dream
Fully funded phd studentship
ASAB (must be ASAB member)
Grants up to £500 to go towards registration, accommodation meals and travel
LASA (must be LASA member)
Grants up to £1000
Royal Geographical Society
Grants between £500 to £3,000 are awarded
The Gen Foundation
Must study and/or research in the field of natural sciences, in particular food sciences/technology and should hold a Batchelors degree
Grundy Educational Trust
up to £4,500 for UK citizens who wish to take courses which lead to a career in STEM disciplines in industry, commerce or the professions or further education
Find a Scholarship
Dogger Bank Wind Farm is providing scholarships of £5,000 to students undertaking STEM degrees. The scholarship is to be used towards tuition fees. To be considered for The Dogger Bank STEM Scholarship applicants must have a home address in East Riding of Yorkshire, Redcar & Cleveland or South Tyneside local authority areas, be undertaking a STEM based full or part time course at a UK university in the academic year 2021/22 and be eligible for UK student tuition fees and student loans
EY Foundation Smart Futures
Open to UK female students who are already on the Smart Futures Programme. Candidates cannot apply direct and are currently selected in collaboration with EY Foundation Smart Futures programme
VISA Scholarship
Open to UK students who have applied for a full time STEM or Business undergraduate degree for 2021-22 entry, are from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background and can demonstrate a financial need (combined household income of less than £50k per year). You must also be in receipt of, or have previously received or have been eligible for, free school meals, pupil premium, education maintenance allowance and/or 16 to 19 bursaries. This will be your first degree.
The Geospatial Scholarship
Open to students who have a Black or mixed Black heritage and an offer from a UK university to study either an undergraduate degree in geography or related geoscience or a Master’s degree in GIS or a course with a significant component of GIS
(ISC)2 Postgraduate Scholarship
£5000 Applicants must be pursuing a postgraduate course of study with a focus on information/cybersecurity or information assurance
Educational Support Fund
Up to £4000 The grants are open to any student, irrespective of age or nationality – for study at any course in the world related to Marine Technology that is approved by the Society
Postgraduate Masters Scholarship
up to £6500 his scholarship is open to exceptional students from an Engineering Council accredited degree programme (2:1 or above), who wish to pursue an accredited masters degree to obtain the academic requirements needed for professional registration for Ceng. Applicants must be a member of IGEM at the time of applying
Hodcroft Larsen Scholarship
£3000 provided at Necastle University Applications will be judged on academic potential, enthusiasm and aptitude for the chosen programme of study. Preference will be given to female home students ordinarily resident in the UK
Rothschild Scholarship Fund
Up to £2000 Scholarships For Jewish Engineering Undergraduates and Postgraduates these awards are open to final year undergraduate and postgraduate Civil Engineering students or in default those studying other Pure or Applied Sciences. Awards worth between £1,000 and £2,500 are offered to applicants who are full-time final year undergraduate and postgraduate students at a university studying Civil Engineering or other Pure or Applied Sciences
Royal Television Society Technology Bursary
Up to £3000 applicants must be either a current first year student or due to start your course in autumn at undergraduate or HND 5/6 level, in Maths, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or related technological degrees
Educational Support Fund
Up to £2000 Scholarships for Jewish Engineering Undergraduates and Postgraduates these awards are open to final year undergraduate and postgraduate Civil Engineering students or in default those studying other Pure or Applied Sciences.
UKRI
UKRI provides UK universities with grants – awarded through a competitive process – to cover the fees and living costs of postgraduate students. Each place a university offers as a result of this funding is called a studentship
CIH
AHDB offers a Studentship scheme for PhD students. Since its inception in 2000, AHDB Horticulture’s PhD Studentship Scheme has helped to produce high quality research outputs, based on original ideas, leading to benefits to the horticultural industry. Crucially, the scheme has also delivered high-calibre practically-minded individuals to the industry for employment within both the commercial and academic horticultural arenas
AFCP
You may be a researcher, a student, embarking on a PhD or involved in CPD to further your career. You’ve got a project in mind, it involves travel or detailed research . . . it needs funding
Trade Charities trust
We award bursaries of up to £3,000 a year for UK university students, who are in financial need and have a parent or spouse or are employed themselves, as a commercial traveller, pharmacist or grocer
GOV.co.uk
TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PERSONS WHO 1) ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 25; AND 2) ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; AND 3) ARE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
St Nicholas Trust
Applicants must be living in the UK at the time of applying, as well as during their course of study. The Trust supports courses in medicine, dentistry or veterinary studies taken as a second degree, as well as certain postgraduate courses in any subject. All grants are made annually and are normally between £500 and £1,300
The Richard Stapley Trust
All grants are made annually and are normally between £500 and £1,300
Find a PHD
Grants available to individuals who have lived within the boundaries of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne for at least the past year. Grants are to assist with general household costs
British Mass Spectrometry Society
Various funding and grants available to students who are registered as members of BMSS
Perry Foundation
Agricultural research and travel funding
The Morley Agricultural Foundation
Grants for agricultural research
The AgriFood Charities Partnership
Hub for agricultural funding
John Innes Foundation Undergraduate Bursary
The John Innes Foundation (JIF) Undergraduate Bursary Award Scheme finances one student per year who is taking a three-year or four-year degree course in Agriculture, or a related discipline. This fantastic opportunity provides the successful student not only with a bursary to cover course fees, but also mentoring from Keith Norman, farming consultant and former director at Velcourt UK The scheme also provides work experience opportunities during university breaks with placements offered at many organisations including NIAB, Hutchinsons and the National Trust Farms.
The successful student will be shortlisted and selected through a combination of written application and interview. To be eligible you must satisfy the following criteria:
- You must be a UK National.
- From a non-farming background
- Have the need for financial assistance to complete the university course*.
- Enrolled on a full time, three-year, BSc (Hons) degree course in either Agriculture, Crop Production or Environmental Science.
- The student will pursue a career in the UK post-graduation.
- The bursary may also be extended to second or third year students, where situations may have changed within the family, making them eligible in terms of financial need.
*Please note that if shortlisted you will be required to provide evidence of financial need to justify the award of the bursary.
The bursary will be paid at the beginning of each term and is discretionary on the student’s progress, tutor’s reports and attendance record. The bursary will cover the annual cost of the tuition fees, currently £9,250 per annum.
The application closing date has been extended to Friday 18th October 2024. Further information is available from Keith Norman, JIF Trustee.
To apply downloadLinks to an external site. and complete the application form and send email to frances.roberson@rnaa.org.uk.
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Internal Funding Opportunities
Student Travel Bursary
The Student Travel Bursary is open to full-time and part-time Undergraduate, PGT & PGR students (Occasional Visiting and CDT based students are not eligible) in SNES and can be used to provide additional funds to support conference fees, travel and accommodation where costs incurred are greater than the amount currently available to the student as part of their normal studies.
Multiple applications can be made during your programme of study and values are limited to £600 in total.
Not all applications will be funded and student must pursue all avenues to ensure that other potential sources of funding have been considered.
Please note applications cannot be made retrospectively and applications must be made at least 2 weeks in advance (expenses cannot be claimed for pre-booked travel or accommodation).
All travel arrangements/accommodation must be booked by our School Operations team for you. This will be arranged if full approval is been granted by the School.
For any questions please contact snes.education@ncl.ac.uk
Scolarship Opportunities
Clyde Higgs UG and John Pain UG Scholarships
James Skillington Scholarship (under SAGE scholarships, third drop down)
Spence Agricultural Scholarship
Clyde Higgs and Mister Gees PG Scholarships
Mister Gees