Hi I don't know if this is the right place to ask about this but here it goes:
I got offered a place to study my PhD at a UK university but I had to defer my start to next year as I could not secure funding in time. Aside of those options offered by the University, I have been looking for funding throughout the UK but, since I am am not a UK nor a EU/EEA citizen, most of these funding options are closed to me. I have been looking at funding in my home country but options are very limited (though easily secured).
However, and as I was thinking I might as well apply to everything that is available, I was wondering if anyone know about institutions/organisations in the UK which provide either partial or full funding for overseas students?
Hi! You might want to post this to /r/AskAcademia or /r/GradSchool too.
I wouldn't pretend to know of every scrap of PhD funding across the UK that might hypothetically be available, but my impression is that funding designed to attract international postgraduates tends to be managed more often by individual universities according to their priorities rather than centralised schemes (with exceptions for a few nationality-specific programmes). Even then, only a relatively small number of research-intensive universities really have the resources to offer comprehensive funding packages, especially in the humanities.
My advice would be to consider broadening your search for a PhD spot and apply to universities that have funding you're eligible for. Generally speaking, getting into a UK PhD programme is much less competitive than securing funding. So long as you put together a decent application and there's a half-decent rationale for you being there, securing the spot isn't going to be the issue, so it makes sense to prioritise funding opportunities (and potentially giving yourself multiple chances to secure funding from different sources). Obviously, that's less useful if there's a particular scholar you want to work with, but even then it may be possible to arrange some sort of external supervision.