Postgraduate funding in the School of Music, English & Theatre

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Explore funding opportunites for subjects in this School:

Music funding opportunities

Global Ethnic Majority Music Scholar’s Fee Waiver (MMus)

For further information, including details of how to apply, please visit the Global Ethnic Majority Music Scholars Fee Waiver page.

Sarah Caple Award (MA/MMus)

For further information, including details of how to apply, please visit the Sarah Caple Award page.

English funding opportunities

Fee waiver bursaries

We will be awarding a limited number of competitive fee waiver bursaries for English and Creative Writing students.

Students applying to the following MA programmes are eligible to apply for a limited number of 30% fee waivers*:

*NB: These MA fee-waiver bursaries will be in addition to the Goldsmiths Excellence and Alumni fee-waivers.

Overseas students may apply for these fee waivers but should note that the value of each award will be equal to the fees applicable for home/EU students. Exclusions and adjustments based on other awards held may apply.

Find out more and apply for an English and Creative Writing's MA Fee Waiver Bursary.

Up to an equivalent of two full-time fee waivers for full-time and/or part-time MPhil/PhD students, for the academic session 2024 - 25.

Applications from students working in any field of creative writing, literary criticism, linguistics and translation are welcome. All other things being equal, the School may give preference, in the case of one of the bursaries, to high-quality applications focussing on literature before 1830.

Applicants for these fee waivers must have formally applied for entry to the MA or MPhil/PhD programmes (application links can be found on the relevant programme pages) and must include with their application two academic referees.

Overseas students as well as home/EU students may apply for the fee waivers, but should note that the value of each award will be equal to the fees applicable for home/EU students. Students in receipt of AHRC funding for the same programme may not apply. Exclusions and adjustments based on other awards held may also apply.

Find out more and apply for an MPhil/PhD fee waiver bursary.

Up to an equivalent of one full-time fee waiver, which might take that form or the form of up to two part-time fee waivers, for the academic session 2024 - 25.

Current students should include a covering letter, CV and a supporting statement from their current supervisor.

Current MPhil/PhD students now holding, or having held, fee waivers may re-apply for these awards, as appropriate. Students on completion or continuation status are not eligible to apply.

Find out more and apply for a MPhil/PhD fee waiver bursary.

Additional support for current students

As well as substantial research funding to present research papers at conferences, a number of bursaries will be made available annually to support research students' training and development activities (such as studying a language or training in a particular software necessary for a project).

Attendance to specialist advanced summer schools is also generously supported. We have an affiliation to, and support participation in

The Samuel Beckett Summer School in Dublin (this bursary is awarded jointly by the School and Goldsmiths)

In recent years we have also supported attendance to:

The International T. S. Eliot Summer School in London
The Synapsis European School for Comparative Studies in Pontignano, Siena, Italy;
The James Joyce Summer School in Dublin;
The Trieste James Joyce Summer School in Trieste, Italy;
A writing ashram of the Berlin University of the Arts
Language courses

Theatre & Performance funding opportunities

Student Project Fund

(£50 to £500)

The Theatre and Performance Student Project Fund is designed to support our undergraduate and postgraduate students’ independent creative initiatives particularly those which take place outside the university, for example at festivals and external venues. The awards assist any student, or group of students, in a theatre or performance-related project. Students in the past have used the fund to help them take work out into professional and community contexts and to showcasing opportunities.

We view extra-curricular work as a key learning opportunity for our student community. In addition to enabling students to experiment, innovate and develop their own artistic practice in wider contexts, these awards also facilitate significant personal and professional development and support significant connections with, and entry into, the theatre and cultural industries in the UK and abroad. We have a rich history of exciting and innovative student projects that have been awarded by the scheme.

Three awards are made each year:

Studio Gold – autumn term
Spring Sites and Encounters – spring term
Summer Festivals and Forays – summer term

To make an application, please see the criteria, information pack, guidance notes, and application form available on the Student Project Fund page of the VLE. The Student Project Fund is chaired by Francesca Greatorex.

For more information, please contact Theatre & Perofrmance at Goldsmiths.