Current Students: For full Guidance and application forms, visit the WRoCAH Intranet

There are THREE additional funding streams students who started from 2019-2025 can access. These funding streams are for:

Individual research-related activities
Organising events
The required elements of the WRoCAH training programme

These three streams can provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation costs as well as conference registration fees and catering costs for events. All WRoCAH funds are provided by the AHRC or through match funding from the three Universities so all applications to all funding schemes are expected to be well-researched, evidenced and demonstrate good value for money as we are spending public funds.

What kinds of activities are covered under each funding stream?

Individual research-related activities	Organising events	Required elements of WRoCAH training programme
Primary research trips, eg. to archives, museums, private houses or for interviews Training courses, providing you with essential skills to complete your research Summer schools, allowing you to spend an extended period of time focusing on one aspect of your research with expert tuition and with other scholars in a similar area Conferences, as a presenter or panel chair or just as an attendee Any other research-related costs AND Long-term data storage, in line with your Research Data Management Plan	Reading groups, these can be small regular groups meeting on a specific theme Research skills training, where you share a need with other researchers and know a master practitioner who can provide expert tuition and support. These can be anything from 1 day to a week residential. Symposiums, to bring other doctoral researchers together to share research-in-progress on a specific or broad theme or with an interdisciplinary focus Conferences, bringing together doctoral researchers with the wider academic research community in one or linked fields General outreach activities, with a partner organisation where the activity is not directly related to your research	Internationalisation Project, eg. Desk exchange, being a visiting researcher, international conference organisation Researcher Employability Project (REP), 1-3 months with a partner organisation working on a project using your doctoral-level research skills but unrelated to your research Knowledge Exchange Project, taking your research to non-academic audiences from the general public to policy-makers or private businesses

Individual research-related activities

Organising events

Required elements of WRoCAH training programme

Small and Large Awards

Student Led Forums

Project Awards

Primary research trips, eg. to archives, museums, private houses or for interviews
Training courses, providing you with essential skills to complete your research
Summer schools, allowing you to spend an extended period of time focusing on one aspect of your research with expert tuition and with other scholars in a similar area
Conferences, as a presenter or panel chair or just as an attendee
Any other research-related costs

AND

Long-term data storage, in line with your Research Data Management Plan

Reading groups, these can be small regular groups meeting on a specific theme
Research skills training, where you share a need with other researchers and know a master practitioner who can provide expert tuition and support. These can be anything from 1 day to a week residential.
Symposiums, to bring other doctoral researchers together to share research-in-progress on a specific or broad theme or with an interdisciplinary focus
Conferences, bringing together doctoral researchers with the wider academic research community in one or linked fields
General outreach activities, with a partner organisation where the activity is not directly related to your research

Internationalisation Project, eg. Desk exchange, being a visiting researcher, international conference organisation
Researcher Employability Project (REP), 1-3 months with a partner organisation working on a project using your doctoral-level research skills but unrelated to your research
Knowledge Exchange Project, taking your research to non-academic audiences from the general public to policy-makers or private businesses

Click on the graphic below to see how each scheme operates

What kinds of costs can be covered?

Limits apply to some categories of cost. Please make sure you have read and understand these before making any application.

Current Students: For full Guidance and the application form, visit the WRoCAH Intranet

Important things to know

WRoCAH awards are a contribution to costs, they may not cover 100% of the costs for an activity.
No funds are released in advance, all claims against WRoCAH awards are made on the basis of receipts submitted.
We cannot make any retrospective awards, all applications must be for activities taking place in the future.
We can’t make adjustments to awards after letters have been issued except under exceptional circumstances.
Small Awards can only be claimed after the event has taken place and are claimed from the WRoCAH office
Costs relating to all other awards can be claimed immediately on receipt of the award letter from your home university.
All claims must be made no later than 1 month after the end of the activity.
If you have any further questions, please contact office@wrocah.ac.uk