Programmes

Student Development Fund

For those doctoral researchers in receipt of Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship funding, there is an opportunity to be a visiting doctoral researcher in an international context. Doctoral researchers have been supported to spend time at prestigious institutions across the world including the University of Auckland, Yale University and Freie Universität Berlin. They have been able to develop new international networks and draw down additional supervisory support from worldleading experts in their fields of study.

Additional funding is also available to support language learning. Doctoral researchers have immersed themselves in languages across the world from Gaelic to Arabic with this feeding directly into their research. SDF also funds archival and fieldwork trips where researchers have been able to see the core of their research topic first-hand, accessing expertise and resources which would not have been possible without funding.

Over the past five years, our funded students have travelled to every continent with the exception of Antarctica. From as close to home as Shetland and Dublin, to as far as New Zealand and the Arctic, this funding allows our research to grow and expand into a truly international context.