Funding for Belgian student to do a PhD in UK?

Question

I am currently applying for PhD fundings in UK, but as the competition is rude, I am not sure to be accepted, even if I have very good grades and qualifications.

So, I want to look at other PhD fundings opportunities, that may be less obvious. For instance, I know that the European Commission proposed some PhD fundings (Marie Curie scheme or something like that), but I think it is no longer active.

If you could give me some advice, I would greatly appreciate.

Field of study : Theoretical Physics Country of origin : Belgium, EU.

I'm not wealthy enough to fund myself for my PhD, even for one year.

Answer 1

The top universities often have a lot of reasonably obscure funding options.

For example with the University of Cambridge - if you go through the steps at this website they list all their funding options, you'll see for Physics there are fully-funded scholarships such as these that might be of interest to you:

• Leslie Wilson Research Scholarship (£17,427 per year)
• Winton Scholarship(s) in the Physics of Sustainability
• Thalmann Bequest (covers EU fees only)
• Schiff Fund (upto £20,000 per year)
• Gulbenkian Studentship (specifically for non-UK nationals)
• Gates Cambridge Scholarships

The equivalent website for the University of Oxford is here

and it reckons

35 Scholarships were found for a new student from Belgium studying Theoretical Physics (DPhil)

so I'm not going to list them all here!!!

Best of luck!