On Friday 2 September, UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) announced a 10% increase to the minimum student stipend level previously announced for the 2022 to 2023 academic year:
ukri.org/news/ukri-increasing-the-minimum-stipend-from-1-october-2022/
Royal Holloway has made a commitment to track the stipend for College-funded students against the UKRI stipend. The stipend for College funded students will therefore rise in line with this increase for 2022/23.
What does this mean for me?
- If you are UKRI funded or College funded: your studentship stipend for 2022/23 will increase to £19,668 (i.e. new minimum UKRI stipend of £17,668 + £2,000 London Weighting).
- If you are College funded but receive a non-standard stipend amount rather than the full UKRI stipend: your stipend will increase by the same percentage as the UKRI stipend rate has increased between 2021/22 and 2022/23.
- If your stipend is co-funded by the College and an external organisation, other than UKRI, at the UKRI rate: the College will ask the external organisation to increase their contribution but will underwrite the increase in stipend for one year as a gesture of goodwilll so your stipend for 2022/23 will also increase to £19,668.
- If your stipend is 100% paid from a grant, the increase in stipend will need to be found from the grant so whether you receive it will depend if there are enough funds in the grant / whether the grant funder is able to make the additional contribution.
If you have any queries about this, please contact us at doctoralschoolrhul.ac.uk.
This increase should be distributed across the standard four payments for your 2022/23 billing year. Please note that if you are College funded and have a non-standard start date, your 2022/23 billing year will start on your anniversary i.e. if you started in January, your 2022/23 blling year will start in January 2023.