Hi, I am waiting to hear if I have got funding for a part-time PhD. I have two children and am wondering where I could get help with childcare costs. Do some funding bodies award extra money for help with such costs? Are there charities that may help?? Thanks
Your university may have childcare bursuries. (At mine, these are means tested and I didn't qualify as my husband works.) As far as I could see, government childcare benefit is only for undergraduates. Consequently, almost my entire grant is eaten up by part-time nursery fees.
Not sure about funding bodies. I had my daughter during my PhD so there were no dependents on my funding application.
I tried to get my university to deal with this issue about 5 years ago. They told me back that there was no way that they could afford to help with childcare. If I asked them now - during our recession - I doubt that they would be able to offer anything more than they could before. Pretty hard to balance having a proper life and doing a PhD :(
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