Postgraduate Equity Awards

Please enter your supporting statement below. Maximum 500 words.

You can include the following:

• Your academic background and achievements (such as academic prizes)
• Your extracurricular activities or voluntary experience, particularly those relevant to your chosen course
• Any barriers you have experienced to your education and how you have overcome them
• Any other achievements that you feel are relevant to your chosen course
• How your study at Goldsmiths would help your future career plans.

The Postgraduate Equity Awards are designed to help progression to postgraduate study for students of colour.

You must meet the general eligibility criteria and regulations. You must also:

Be eligible for Home fees
Be holding an offer of study on a taught Masters programme at Goldsmiths, starting in 2026
Have one of the following categories of ethnicity:

• Black / African / Caribbean / Black British
• African
• Caribbean
• Any other Black / African / Caribbean background
• Any other Mixed / Multiple ethnic background
• Asian / Asian British
• Indian
• Pakistani
• Bangladeshi
• Chinese
• Any other Asian background
• Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups
• White and Black Caribbean
• White and Black African
• White and Asian
• Other ethnic group
• Gypsy or Irish Traveller
• Arab

Be taught in person

Priority will be given to applicants who demonstrate one or more of the following characteristics in their application:

• Have previously been in receipt of the undergraduate Equity award
• Resident in the borough of Lewisham
• Live in a low-participation neighbourhood
• Disability affecting their study