Have you won one or more grants from a charity, trust or alternative funding sources to support your postgraduate degree? If yes, please enter our Prize Draw! We do one in the Summer of each academic year. Simply answer these survey questions about your award(s) and click the Submit button! The £500 prize is the one we select as the most impressive fundraising story. The three runner up prizes are drawn randomly. If you win new awards after you have submitted one, you can enter again! See eligibility notes below.
2025 Draw
Commencing! You can still enter up to July. Otherwise, your entry will go in next year's draw!
Last Year's Prize Draw Results (Summer 2024 Draw)
First Prize (£500): Zhang Guowei Jianhong, PhD, Mathematics
Runner Up Prizes (£100): Katie Hutchinson (DPhil Biology), Siobhan Scarlett O'Reilly (PhD Media and Social Sciences), Florence Carruthers-Andrews (MMus, Vocal Studies)
Previous Year's Prizes Winners: View them here!
Eligibility Notes
To be eligible for this prize draw, you must have raised at least £250 from an alternative funding body for your postgraduate degree. Any award from a charity, trust, foundation, or learned society makes you eligible for entry. Awards from your department, a research council, studentship or a loan are not classed as alternative funding. A successful crowdfunding campaign does also count, just send us the URL. If you continue to win further awards during the course of your studies, then we encourage you to submit a new additional entry to our prize draw.
How we will use this data
The prize draw is also a survey that will help us learn from students to help improve our resource for everybody. Your personal data will be stored securely and will never be passed to a third party without your consent. However, your data may be aggregated with those of other students in a summary form and shared with your university- rest assured that your name will not be associated with bodies or amounts awarded. Please read our Privacy Policy if you would like further information about how we will manage this data.