Funding opportunity for PGRs to share their research
Postgraduate researchers (PGRs) in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures are invited to apply for the next round of the Faculty Research Dissemination Awards
These awards provide up to £400 to support the presentation of PhD research to external audiences or partners. They are designed to help PGRs share integral outputs of their PhD with wider audiences, whether through conference papers, exhibitions, installations, performances, or other forms of engagement.
Four application deadlines are spread throughout the academic year.
Applications are assessed on progression, relevance, planning and value for money. Support for summer schools and practice-based outputs may be considered where the dissemination of PhD research can be clearly demonstrated.
Professor James Stark, Head of the Graduate School and Deputy Pro-Dean for Research & Innovation, said:
"We are incredibly proud of our diverse community of postgraduate researchers and these awards enable them to showcase their amazing work to wider audiences. From exhibitions and installations to prestigious international conferences, the activities supported by this funding serve as important pathways to future professional success."
Past recipients of the Awards highlight the wide-ranging benefits of dissemination funding.
Elizabeth Fair (School of Music) used the funding to present at the European Grief Conference in Dublin. "My research was met with a lot of curiosity and lots of grief practitioners came up and verified that it was representative of their experiences too, which was helpful to verify the information,” Elizabeth said. “The funding enabled me to stay close by to the conference centre and immerse myself fully in the experience, without having to worry about financial expenses."
Arna Dirghangi (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies) presented her research at the International Conference on Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory. The awards enabled Arna to attend the conference in-person and collaborate with like-minded professionals and academics from the GLAM sector, which has furthered her research in addressing the skewed dynamics of power, access and control over born-digital materials and their burgeoning relationship to memory, cultural heritage and digital archives of the Global South.
Kate Simpson (School of English) drew on her award to present collaborative practice research at the ASLE-UKI conference: "The funding helped me to secure my place at a seminal conference but enabled me to fund the additional travel and accommodation required to achieve an ambitious paper which required various iterations of site-based writing,” Kate said.
For further details and information about upcoming deadlines, please contact AHCGradSchool@leeds.ac.uk.
