Opportunities

Discover the latest funding and other opportunities available to MAH PGRs.

Last updated: 11/04/2025

‘Close to My Heart’ Call for Participation – paid work for PGR workshop leaders. Deadline 17 April 2025.

Close to My Heart: Autoethnographic Approaches is a one-day, creative research methods gathering that invites PGRs from across Sussex to explore diverse methodologies related to autoethnographic research. The event is taking place taking place on Wednesday, 18 June, in the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, and we’re currently seeking three Sussex postgraduate researchers to design and deliver workshop sessions to peers. 

A method of self-study that combines characteristics of autobiography and ethnography, autoethnography connects the autobiographical and personal to broader social meaning, analysing researcher lived experience to better understand cultural phenomena. 

Workshop facilitators will be paid £100 to prepare and lead a 1.5-hour session exploring autoethnographic methodologies. Facilitators will be given a budget of up to £50 for workshop materials needed for their session. 

Find more information via the Call for Participation. The deadline to apply is Thursday 17 April 2025. 

Landecker Digital Memory Lab Research Assistant Placement. Deadline 18 April 2025.

Landecker Digital Memory Lab is an exciting new five-year programme funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation in Berlin whose aim is to ensure a sustainable future for Holocaust memory in the digital age. Based in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities, the Lab now has a Research Assistant placement vacancy for a current PhD student, based at University of Sussex starting in May 2025, 6 months full-time or 3-4 days a week for an equivalent period. Application deadline: 18 April.

Find more information about the placement, including how apply.

CHASE Brief Encounters Journal – Cover Art Competition. Deadline 2 May 2025.

The Editors of Brief Encounters warmly invite research students and staff at CHASE-affiliated institutions and those working in collaboration with CHASE-affiliated scholars to enter the cover art competition for Issue 9.  

The cover art competition is open to multiple mediums including painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography, and digital media. Any artwork submitted should align with the issue’s theme of Encounters in Solidarity. Please review this year’s Call for Papers which contains more information about the theme: https://briefencounters-journal.co.uk/news/11/ .  

 Terms and Conditions

  • All artwork entered must be the original work of those submitting it.
  • There is no limit to entries per person.
  • Artists retain all rights to their work.
  • Works entered must not have appeared on the cover of another publication and not entered simultaneously in any other competition.
  • Artwork will be accepted in .JPG, .PNG or .PDF form.
  • The winning entry will be selected by the Editorial Board after the competition has closed.

To enter, please send your artwork to chasedtpjournal@gmail.com by midnight of the deadline, Friday 2 May.

PGR Allotment Volunteers wanted! 

Are you green-fingered or keen to try your hand at growing stuff? We would love to have some PGRs from MAH join the small team of staff who tend the allotment (MAH-lotment!) in the Silverstone Garden on campus. We have six small raised beds and a variety of seeds, compost and gardening tools at our disposal, and in previous years we have grown a variety of fruits, vegetables and wildflowers. It’s a very informal space and no previous horticultural skills are required!  

If you would like to find out more, please get in touch with Assistant Research Manager, Laura Vellacott (L.Vellacott@sussex.ac.uk). 

Enterprise Education Programme - Discovery Series

This programme is open to University of Sussex academic staff and doctoral researchers working on intellectual property (IP) owned by the University.

Designed around Lean Startup methodology, this series of six 'hands-on' workshops will introduce University of Sussex researchers to tools and techniques to help them figure out if a commercial route is for them - and if so, where to search for market opportunities and applications, evaluate different options and set a focus to explore and test potential commercialisation models to understand their future value and impact.

  • Tuesday 6 May, 11am-1pm - Recognising Potential
  • Tuesday 13 May, 11am-1pm - Finding Market Opportunities That Matter
  • Tuesday 27 May, 11am-1pm - What's Your Value Proposition?
  • Tuesday 10 June, 11am-1pm - Building a Model for Commercialisation Success
  • Tuesday 24 June, 11am-1pm - Testing Your Idea: Market Research and Validation
  • Tuesday 15 July, 11am-1pm - Moving Forwards and Bringing it all Together

Find out more and reserve your free spot.

CHASE Cohort Development Fund. Deadline 6 June.

CHASE has now opened its annual call for Cohort Development Fund training calls for CHASE faculty members and Research Networks.

The application deadline for these calls is 6th June.

  1. For staff at CHASE institutions - Call for training proposals
  2. For CHASE research network funding (staff and PGRs can both apply) - Call for research network funding proposals

 

Call for participants for Otherfield Festival, 1 - 3 August

We are hoping to run a Sussex Screen at the Otherfield Festival in Laughton (near Ringmer) from 1 -3 August, showing documentary work from staff and students at Sussex and possibly emerging filmmakers from the region and feature research-related workshops. This is a well-established, informal and important community-facing event. If you have a completed film or rough cut that you would like to have considered, please get in touch with Lizzie Thynne with the following information:
Title:
Director/Crew:
Running time:
50 word description:
Are you able to attend the festival 1 - 3 August? Y/N
Are you willing to help with the festival? Y/N
If you do not have a film to show but would like to help with the festival, please also get in touch, even if you are just assisting for a day. thank you. We would also be interested in hearing about other documentaries made locally or through the university that you would like to suggest
Find more information about the event, and email Lizzie Thynne to participate.

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.