STFC Studentship Enhancement Programme

The STFC Studentship Enhancement Programme (STEP) is a new scheme aimed at helping departments to retain in research the most promising researchers among completing PhD students. STFC STEP awards are intended to enable STFC-funded students to develop their research further and to increase the impact of their PhDs by delivering outputs, including publications, knowledge exchange and outreach.

The awards will be for a maximum of one year, and departments will be required to issue them for a minimum of six months.

The total funding available for the scheme is sufficient to support up to fifteen 12-month awards a year. Funding will be provided in training grants once every four years and it will be for departments to select which of their students they wish to benefit from the awards. There will be no application or nomination process involving STFC.

|STEP awards guidance (PDF - 18Kb - opens in a new window)