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Got a postgraduate event idea?

Apply for funding through the Graduate School’s Postgraduate Experience Awards and it could turn it into reality.

Funding of up to £1,500 is available for applications to run events or projects which have an interdisciplinary and/or external focus and which enhance the experience of postgraduate students at Kent.

All events or projects must take place at Kent and be held by the end of the 2014-15 academic year.

Examples of previous initiatives funded through the Postgraduate Experience Awards include:

  • Take the Floor! – an innovative workshop on improving presentation skills
  • Homelessness – an interdisciplinary conference
  • Short-story reading group
  • Shut up and Write – a project to encourage academic writing.

Applications for funding are invited from postgraduates (both taught and research) and postdoctoral researchers (up to two years).

The 2014-15 application deadline is Friday 28 November 2014.

How to apply

Download the application form.

Or, email graddean@kent.ac.uk for more information.