Student Stories

Postgraduates who have used our approach successfully

This new section shares stories of a number of students who have been successful with raising charity funding to support their studies. Although this whole website is written by people who succeeded in winning grants via our unique approach, it's nice to be able to connect this advice tangibly to real students who share their stories of how they did it! Some of our featured postgraduates are studying Masters, some PhDs. Some had partial funding, and others none at all. Some may have had a full scholarship and gained extra funding from alternative bodies to support their research and conference costs. You'll see that each went about finding and applying slightly differently, but you'll notice some common experiences and strategies if you read a few of the stories. These are the very same as those we describe on the Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding. As well as being useful, we that these stories help inspire you to have a go yourself!

Won funding from charities? Tell us your story and gain a guaranteed £50 Award. Also, enter our Prize Draw for £500! We are always interested to hear from students who have succeeded in gaining funding from charities and trusts, and if you are in that category, we'd love to hear from you. If you have won two or more awards from charities, and would be happy for a short story like those below to appear on this site, then let us know! We pay £50 for each profile! If you think you've got an interesting story to tell, drop us a line at enquiries@gradfunding.co.uk. Initially please just email us a short summary of how many awards you have won, from where, your course, and your university. Then we will decide whether to ask you to write the full story, which is when you'll receive the award.

In addition, we also run a Prize Draw each year. To enter the Prize Draw, you only need to have won a single grant from an alternative funding. Each year we have a top prize of £500 and three prizes of £100. Enter the Prize Draw here. Remember, you can enter both the Prize Draw and submit a Student Story!

Shuzhi Zhou, PhD Neuroscience, KCL Click for details	Daniel Morgan, PGCE , Universities of Warwick and York Click for details	Stephen Gordon, PhD History, University of Manchester Click for details	Lucy Atkinson, PhD Cognitive Psychology, University of Northampton Click for details
Luke Blaxill, PhD History and Digital Humanities, King's College London Click for details	Suraiya Nasreen, PhD Business Studies, University of Hull I recently graduated with a PhD in Marketing fr Click for details	Ashley Owen, MA Philosophy, King's College London Click for details	Lauren Ward, MSc and PhD Psychology, University of Northampton Click for details	Genevieve Richardson, MPhil Development Studies, University of Oxford Click for details
Julian Vickers, MA Music, Royal Academy of Music Click for details	Louise Wilson, MA and BSc Zoology, University of Glasgow Click for details	Magdalena Doroszko, MSc and PhD Psychology, University of Sheffield Click for details	Waseem Abdullah, PGDip Physician, University of Birmingham Click for details	Venessa Lewis, MSc Behaviour Analysis & Therapy, University of South Wales Click for details
Kez Conroy, MRes Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation, UCL Click for details	Taylor Aucoin, PhD History, University of Bristol Click for details	Hannah Belcher, PhD Autism, Anglia Ruskin University Click for details	Alice Langley, MA Directing, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Click for details	Roisin Killick, MSc Globalisation, University College London Click for details
Salman Malik, PhD Engineering, University College London Click for details	Rebecca Band, PGCE, Goldsmiths University of London Click for details	Becki Neale, PhD, Durham University Click for details	Agnes Henriksen, PhD History, UCL Click for details	Srishti Gupta, MSc Marketing, Nottingham Trent Loughborough Universities Click for details
Tilotama Pradhan, PhD Sociology, University of Essex Click for details	Rose Roberto, PhD Design History, University of Reading Click for details	Sam Pollard, PhD Theology, University of Bristol Click for details	Katie Chalmers, MA Music Therapy, Royal Northern College of Music Click for details	Alex Tapping, MSc Applied Neuropsychology, University of Bristol Click for details
Hanna Mazheika, PhD History, University of Aberdeen Click for details	Oliver Dalby, MSc Marine Environmental Management, University of York Click for details	Shannon-Latoyah Simon, Trinity Laban MMus Music Click for details	Eman Zied, PhD, Northumbria University Click for details	Vicky Paterson, MA Music Therapy, Guildhall School of Music and Drama Click for details
Jakub Janas, MSc European Governance, Cardiff University Click for details	Martha McCurdy, MSc Political Sociology, London School of Economics Click for details	Maria Goldsmith, MSc Wound Healing, Cardiff University Click for details	Heather Royall, MA Music, Guildhall School Music & Drama Click for details	Paul Brack, PhD Chemistry, Loughborough University Click for details
Rachel Goldie, MA Art, Royal College of Art Click for details	Sandra Pérez Romero, PhD in Music, University of Huddersfield Click for details	Siobhan O'Reilly, PhD Psychology and Media, University of Brighton Click for details