Thank you GRF! That's the Graduate Research Fund at the University. I have been given a fairly decent amount of money towards my research costs from this fund. Somebody must have thought my thesis idea was a good one! It's not enough to cover the travel costs but will help considerably... I'm back to filling in yet another scholarship application this week.
Despite this the grant has put me in a much better frame of mind about the thesis, enough to finally talk about it like it is actually going to happen. I have therefore created a new page on this site introducing the topic, and started a new blogger to detail my progress. Check out the Thesis Page first, then if you're really keen you can go on to all the gory details on the Thesis Blogger.