The Garden Scholarship

The Garden Scholarship is open to Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) in Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice applicants or students currently enrolled on the Postgraduate Professional Development (PgProfDev) Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice programme.

One scholarship will be available for 2026/2027 entry.

The Scholarship will cover full tuition fees towards the Postgraduate Certificate in Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice. The maximum scholarship award available for 2026/2027 entry is £5070. 


The Garden Scholarship will be awarded to applicants who are either:

  • Accepted for admission to the PgCert Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice (online learning) programme in the 2026-2027 academic year. Applicants should already have been offered a place at the University of Edinburgh and should have firmly accepted that offer or be intending to do so. Preference will be given to those who have an unconditional offer at time of the scholarship application deadline, or,
  • Currently enrolled on the PgProfDev Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice (online learning) programme and wish to complete the PG Certificate.

The Garden Scholarship would particularly welcome applications from students from sub-Saharan Africa. 

Applicants must be currently domiciled in one of the eligible countries listed below and as derived from the DAC List of ODA Recipients 2026-2027.

Please note the eligible countries are not a 1:1 match to the full DAC list. Rather, the DAC list has been used as an information source to help define the set of eligible countries.  Domiciles not included in the list below unfortunately are not eligible for the Scholarship:

AngolaGabonNepal
BangladeshGambiaNiger
BeninGhanaNigeria
BotswanaGuineaRwanda
Burkina FasoGuinea BissauSao Tome and Principe
BurundiHaitiSenegal
CambodiaKenyaSierra Leone
CameroonKiribatiSolomon Islands
Cape VerdeLao People's Democratic RepublicSomalia
Central African RepublicLesothoSouth Africa
ChadLiberiaSouth Sudan
ComorosLibyaSudan
CongoMadagascarTanzania
Côte d'IvoireMalawiTimor-Leste
Democratic Republic of the CongoMaliTogo
DjiboutiMauritaniaTunisia
EgyptMauritiusTuvalu
Equatorial GuineaMoroccoUganda
EritreaMozambiqueWestern Sahara
EswatiniMyanmarYemen
EthiopiaNamibiaZambia
  Zimbabwe

 


As part of your application, applicants must also include a personal statement which confirms and/or addresses each of the following questions (500 words maximum):

  • Confirm your current employer and your current post.
  • Outline your career objectives and how these objectives will be enhanced by completion of the PgCert in Surgical Writing and Evidence Based Practice.
  • Any additional information that you believe will enhance your application.

The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and the strength of your personal statement.


The deadline to apply for this scholarship has now passed.

 

Application system: Frequently Asked Questions

Scholarships Systems FAQs for Applicants (152.11 KB / PDF)


We will notify the successful applicant by email by 29th of June 2026.


Please direct any questions or queries to the programme team at: surgicalwriting@ed.ac.uk


Important

The University reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend or withdraw any of the advertised scholarships, without further notice.

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