Caregiver of disabled teenager returning to study, but can't find funding. (UK) Any thoughts?
But now I am doing a PhD at a top UK university and am winning awards for my projects and am devising and teaching courses.


In my experience, once you start a PhD in the UK, it is extremely difficult to get a studentship. It is not clear if you are looking for a full time studentship or a part time studentship. UK studentships tend to come from four sources of funding: university/school level funding, doctoral training center (DTC) grants, individual grants from charities and research councils given to a supervisor, and individual studentships awarded to the student.

As UK PhDs generally last 3 years of full time work, asking for less than 3 years of funding will result in odd gaps on any type of grant. While funding directly from the university or school is more flexible, unfortunately, if they did not offer you funding when they accepted you, they likely are not going to offer you funding now.

That leaves you with "special interest" funding, but again, having already started, will put you at a disadvantage.