How to find your funding for a PhD

By Liz Lightfoot. After you get the green light for your PhD comes the tricky issue of working out how to pay for it. The euphoria that accompanies the moment you find out your research proposal has been accepted by a university can quickly give way to panic over where the funding will come from. The university is the first place to start, as the seven research councils allocate funds to departments rather than individuals. Universities also offer their own scholarships but competition for these is fierce. Most doctoral students either work part time to fund their studies or find a mixture of smaller grants from charities, organisations or industry. Read more...