The Official Funding questions/moans/possible joy Thread

I've got offers from UCL and York for MA in English, but now I'm panicking about what to do about funding! I've already said I want to apply for AHRC but now there're are application forms to send off to the individual universities to try and get nominated for AHRC. The problem is, if I apply to both am I going to have to pull out if I get funding from the other place? I'm also still waiting to hear from Oxford and what if they offer me funding at the last second? It kind of seems like I'll have to choose which place to go to before I have all the information..Is anyone else in a similar situation?
Sorry I think that's kind of incoherent, but to be honest that's how the whole funding issue seems to me right now!

You still need to indicate where you're getting your funding from (if any). So if you want to be included as a research council applicant, then make sure you tick the box.

The universities' only choose who they want to fund (if they have money to give etc) so it's up to you and you only to make sure they know what you want to be considered.

In that case I'll be sure to put myself down as requiring funding and mentioning that I meet the requirements on the ESPRC website for funding. Thanks for the help. I've written to a couple of professors and many of them seem to think that it'll be difficult to get funding from the research council for a MSc, which is a shame as there's no way I can fund myself without getting into obscene amounts of debt.

It'd be so much easier if you could get a student loan on Masters courses!

Is anyone else getting as stressed out and anxious waiting to hear if your university is going to put you forward for funding as I am? Going slightly insane waiting and I'm not going to find out for ages yet...I want to be able to start planning things like accomodation and stuff but don't want to get ahead of myself.

Snap. My current housemate who is doing a four-year undergrad course wants to live with me next year, which is making things tricky for me as I try to explain that I can't really commit until I know the funding situation...

Hi, I was wondering if it was the usual practice to apply for departmental funding (i.e do nothing in my case as I will be automatically considered if I get an offer) and nothing else -- I ticked boxes for university funding on the application form but that's all I did...
More simply I'm worrying because I don't have any separate application to send (or I think I don't) whereas many people here do... Does that seem unusual? Thanks

I've just found out that I have been unsucessful in applying for departmental funding (e.g. scholarships). Is it possible to apply to the ARHC still?

Depends on which university you're talking, whether they've got AHRC funding for MA courses to give and the application deadline.

University of Bristol. They do indeed have AHRC funding, however, I was warned at my interview that institutional funding had been cut back.
I'm yet to accept my offer - partially owing to the following;

The acceptance letter asks me to confirm sections on funding (either: myself, my employer, UK Research Council, Family, Govt. Scholarship or Other). Considering that i'm currently unsure as to where I could obtaining funding i'm not in a position to return the form.

Hmm the big question you need to find out is whether the MPhil counts under the 'Research Preparation Master's' scheme. And they've only got 1 quota for MA funding anyway.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/scholarships/bgp.html

And they only have one doctoral AHRC scholarship as well... makes Oxford's 18 seem enormous!

And they only have one doctoral AHRC scholarship as well