AHRC RTSG Travel Grant

Funding

As part of your AHRC award you are able to apply for Research Training Support Grant funds to support your primary research and attend conferences during your funded period. Support can be offered for small and reasonable costs associated with research expenses and books.

SGSAH funded students are entitled to apply for £1,750 in total over 3.5 years of funding. AHRC Collaborative PhD students, not funded by SGSAH, are normally entitled to apply for up to £2,000 during your funded period but please contact pgawards@ed.ac.uk to confirm exact allowance.

We cannot award an RTSG claim retrospectively and you should not make any bookings or incur any costs until you have approval from our team.

Payments for conferences are normally limited to one successful application over the lifetime of your award. We are not able to consider in person conference fees but can support with travel costs and provide a maintenance allowance of £100 per day (as of Nov 2024) towards accommodation. If the conference is online, the fund will cover reasonable online conference fees.

All travel is subject to a satisfactory University risk assessment and secured University travel insurance which should be included with the RTSG application. You should not make any bookings until your RTSG claim has been approved by the PGR Student Office.

Application form

Please complete the application form below and please allow at least 4 weeks for us to consider your request. Your supervisor will need to provide a brief supporting case for you to be considered for the grant. The application will ask for the most accurate estimate of costs. It is expected that these costs will be reasonable and full receipts of the approved spend will be required.

Submit the completed application to pgawards@ed.ac.uk

Closing date for applications

Applications will be considered within 4 weeks of submission. 

What happens next?

If your application is approved, we will email you to confirm the amount of funds awarded and ask you to complete the advance of expenses claim form. Once complete we will arrange with finance for the funds to be sent directly to you. After you have spent the funds we will ask you to complete Section 3 on the advance of expenses form and submit it to our team with copies of all receipts. We will ask for a return of funds which cannot be receipted.

Contact us

If you have any queries, please contact pgawards@ed.ac.uk