Postgraduate funding in the School of Music, English & Theatre

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

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.