Funding

NOTE: Applications for 2025-2026 are closed. Applications reopen on the 31st August 2026.

The Postgraduate Committee Fund, allows PG Students to request funding to attend a conference, manage an event, project, or activity for Postgraduate Students or in case a Postgrad student can no longer afford to purchase equipment or resources for their studies.

Allocation of funds are decided against a set of criteria. Please ensure you read these carefully before submitting an application. The team will then process your application according to these criteria. This is a reimbursement fund – if successful, we will reimburse you for costs already spent within a certain timeframe.  

Please note: The funding cap is £200 and during peak times (September and March) applications will take longer to process.  

For more detailed information, please refer to the ‘Terms of Reimbursement’ document. If you have any questions, please contact the SU Voice team via su.voice@uea.ac.uk and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.  

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PG Funding Criteria

The purpose of the Postgraduate Fund is to help postgraduate students to: 

1. cover their conference or research costs. 

2. to organise student-led events, projects and activities. 

Any requests for activities outside these items cannot be accepted. 

Students cannot combine activity types in a single application. 

Applicants must meet the following criteria in their application to be approved: 

Conference and Research Costs
Applicant has provided details of the event they are claiming for	✔
Applicant has not received funding from elsewhere, like bench fees from their School.	✔
Applicant has included supporting letter from their advisor.	✔
Applicant has provided evidence for each part of their claim, such as receipts and a clear breakdown of costs	✔
Applicant has provided details of claims. For example, instead of “travel costs” they have included “Off-peak train ticket from Norwich to Birmingham”	✔
Applicant has not attempted to claim the cost of luxury items, such as an overly expensive meal or a limousine journey.	✔

OR 

Student-led events, projects and activities
Applicant has provided details of the event they are claiming for	✔
Applicant has not received funding from elsewhere, like bench fees from their School.	✔
Applicant has provided evidence for each part of their claim, such as receipts	✔
Applicant is not claiming for alcohol	✔
Applicant is not donating SU money to another charity	✔
Applicant is not claiming reimbursement for a house party	✔

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Before you apply 

To ensure we can distribute the limited funds as equitably as possible please consider using the following avenues of university funding and only apply to our fund should you have exhausted all other opportunities including your Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) or bench money.  

UEA have made their hardship fund more accessible due to the pandemic, which you can read more about on their website. This fund is accessible through student support who you can contact through the student finance team. The website says this is dedicated to UG students, however, any student can apply.

To ensure fairness when considering applications, your details will be anonymised. Only uea(su) staff and the su finance team will have access to the details you submit in the application.Please see our privacy policy for more information on how we process data submitted to us. 

 

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Applying for funding

To apply, please read the Terms of Reimbursement carefully and fill in your application form via the Microsoft Form , which will open on 31st August.

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