Opportunities

Apply now to New Generation Thinkers 2025. Deadline 4pm 28 Jan 2025.

This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio.

If selected, you’ll also take part in learning and development opportunities with AHRC around working with the media, engaging the public with research and how to work with policy makers.

You’ll be an up-and-coming early career researcher with a passion for sharing ideas with the largest possible audience.

In addition to ECRs, this opportunity is open to those currently studying for their first PhD and having made considerable progress on their research, for example within one year of submission.

Find more information about eligibility and how to apply on the UKRI New Generation Thinkers 2025 webpage.

Please contact Anne-Fay Townsend, Business Partnerships Manager (Innovation & Business Partnerships) via A.Townsend@sussex.ac.uk if you would like support with your application.

Finding Market Opportunities That Matter. Workshop 11 February 2025.

This workshop is open to University of Sussex academics, anyone employed by the University, and doctoral students and researchers working on IP which is owned by the University.

Designed around Lean Startup methodology, this workshop will introduce University of Sussex researchers to tools and techniques to help them identify, evaluate and prioritise commercial opportunities for their research.

This interactive hands-on workshop will allow researchers to develop the skills to support informed decision-making, provide a shared language with stakeholders, and set a strategic focus which offers guidance over time.

CNCS PG Conference 2025 'Institutions in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond' - Call for Papers. Deadline 3 March 2025.

The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (CNCS) at Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, and Teesside Universities is pleased to announce its annual Postgraduate Conference, to be held in person at Durham University on Wednesday, 7 May 2025. Postgraduates from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals for a 15-minute paper.  

CNCS invites papers that consider ‘institutions’ in the long nineteenth century, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective.

See the full call for themes and questions to address in your paper and how to apply [PDF 172 KB].

Deadline: 3 March 2025.

Post-doctoral Candidates, University of Antwerp. Deadline 24 March 2025.

The Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp is looking for a post-doctoral candidate with expertise relating to the topics of adaptation, canonisation and/or cultural memory in film, theatre, dance, and other media.

Find more information and apply.

Media, Arts and Humanities PGR Fund

The Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities has a small budget to help postgraduate researchers with funding research costs. The purpose of the fund is to fund key activities in line with the Faculty’s PGR strategy and to support PGRs with funding individual research costs. The maximum amount of funding which a MAH PGR can apply for over the course of the financial year (1st August - 31st July) is £200.   

Find more details including the Faculty’s Guidelines on eligible uses of the Faculty PGR Fund 

To request funding please complete the Funding Request form and send the completed form to MAH-pgr@sussex.ac.uk. We aim to confirm funding within two weeks of the application being submitted. 

Sussex Fund Doctoral Overseas Conference Grants

Sussex Fund Doctoral Overseas Conference Grants support University of Sussex PGRs who are presenting their work at an overseas conference.  You can apply for a maximum of £1,100 during the period of your PhD registration, and can apply more than once up to the funding limit. From November 2022, an additional £100 above the £1,100 maximum will be available to go towards visa costs, where you require a visa to travel.

The scheme is administered by the Researcher Development team within the Sussex Researcher School, who are able to offer this scheme thanks to a generous grant from the Sussex Fund. To apply, please complete the online application form. Applications must be submitted at least four weeks before the conference start date. 

Ensure you read the guidance notes and conditions of the award before submitting an application, to increase the likelihood of a successful award.