Claiming your expenses
Each JRA has an expenses allowance of £200, which can be claimed for any costs that directly support your research. This page contains all the information you need to know about what you can claim for, and the process of submitting an expense claim.
To try to ensure that no JRA is adversely affected by costs resulting from their research (which will often be unforeseen), we have also allocated each JRA a £200 expenses allowance. This allowance can only be claimed for costs that directly support your research, and you will be expected to explain/prove that any claim made is necessary to the satisfactory progression of your research project.
Here are some examples of things that JRAs commonly claim for:
- travel whilst undertaking fieldwork (i.e. visiting archives or external academics)
- ordering books not available from the library
- subscriptions to access online articles
- buying specific software required for research (i.e. data analysis software)
Please note that, unfortunately, we are unable to refund any travel to and from the university.
Claims can only be made in arrears (i.e. after you have purchased the goods that you are claiming for), so if you are unsure of whether a claim you intend to make is valid, then please feel free to email us before you make your purchase. To make a claim, you must complete a Student Expense Form and return it, along with original receipts or invoices for all items claimed, to undergraduate-research@sussex.ac.uk.